the gunslinger 3,366 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Fifteen percent pay cuts throughout the whole club with any willing and able employees earning over £100k p/a taking even bigger pay cuts of up to 50% like Ally has agreed to would all add up to a very significant sum. If done properly, it might be possible to cut between four and five million off the annual Club wage bill, but even somewhere between three and four million cut off the wage bill would be an excellent start. you can't ask staff earning minimum wage or below a living wage to take a 15% pay cut. as for directors taking one lol. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 you can't ask staff earning minimum wage or below a living wage to take a 15% pay cut. I've got no idea how many Club staff would fall into that category, but I don't think anyone earning low wages would be asked to take a pay cut. as for directors taking one lol. They might have no choice if they're going to be asking other staff to take cuts. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy steel 0 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 What people do not lay much emphasis on is the fact that Wallace will have to work within certain limits, the limits of now and here. We can go on and on about money spent by his predecessors, Green and Co., it will not change anything he faces up to. While I like anyone one here wants him to unravel the vanishing of the IPO money - or at least give transparency where it went, his immediate concerns are in the now and the future. I view a possible (sic!) wage cut as on option preferrable to sacking staff. We can't sent players unwanted or unused packing just because we want to. They have contracts and we like they have to honour them. Else we'll face another Goian scenario and/or the players' union will come after us too. For the time being, we'll have to see what else the boardroom has in store. This is all fair enough, except that people are not chastising Wallace for attempting to trim our financial sails. They are criticising him for making, as his first move in such trimming, a gambit which (a) was very unlikely to be successful (b) destabilises and demoralises the playing staff © depletes already rock bottom morale amongst fans not long before ST renewal time (d) ignores the vastly higher costs which require cutting elsewhere (e) creates, as you say, a media storm (f) makes him look a little bit like someone groping around for an answer rather than someone with a coherent plan (g) is unlikely to encourage investment into the club and (h) is just crass, crass, crass!!!! Yes, cut costs. Yes, look at player wages. But for fuck's sake, don't make your opening move the one which does the most possible damage to Rangers without gaining one iota of benefit! Where do we get these executives who haven't a fucking clue how the real world operates? AAAAAARGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 fortunately laws exist to protect staff against such spivery. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 you can't ask staff earning minimum wage or below a living wage to take a 15% pay cut. as for directors taking one lol. Stockbridge will be away by April just my own hunch 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 This is all fair enough, except that people are not chastising Wallace for attempting to trim our financial sails. They are criticising him for making, as his first move in such trimming, a gambit which (a) was very unlikely to be successful (b) destabilises and demoralises the playing staff © depletes already rock bottom morale amongst fans not long before ST renewal time (d) ignores the vastly higher costs which require cutting elsewhere (e) creates, as you say, a media storm (f) makes him look a little bit like someone groping around for an answer rather than someone with a coherent plan (g) is unlikely to encourage investment into the club and (h) is just crass, crass, crass!!!! Yes, cut costs. Yes, look at player wages. But for fuck's sake, don't make your opening move the one which does the most possible damage to Rangers without gaining one iota of benefit! Where do we get these executives who haven't a fucking clue how the real world operates? AAAAAARGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! beautifully put. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Stockbridge will be away by April just my own hunch oh goody another pay off and no doubt with a bonus in hand. oh and which one of greens pals will replace him? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 oh goody another pay off and no doubt with a bonus in hand. oh and which one of greens pals will replace him? You're not claiming Wallace is one of Green's pals surely? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 You're not claiming Wallace is one of Green's pals surely? i'm saying that a steady flow of money has been directed at greens pals to the extent we are almost in ruins again. if sdm tried these strokes people would be apoplectic. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 i'm saying that a steady flow of money has been directed at greens pals to the extent we are almost in ruins again. if sdm tried these strokes people would be apoplectic. You know what I mean, the likes of Mather left and we got in higher quality board members not pals. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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