I worked for Arsenal as a teenager. Can confirm they are tight as fuck. At the time we were full time staff on part time wages.
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Thatâs weird. I thought being young and unproven was the way to get top wages at Arsenal.
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I canât get over the fact Tottenhamâs turnover was 88 million quid and ours was 354 million quid.
Missing a 1 surely. Should be 188.
Thatâs the thing though in the stadia catering industry part time staff will never do the same exact work as someone who is contracted and full time. Iâm speaking from personal experience here. So it isnât an issue of same work different pay
Staff who are full time are contracted because their job requires a higher skill set than inconsequential skillless labour
Not really, most of the catering staff are students looking to earn money without committing to serious hours and a contract. Know for a fact most stewards are looking to maximise income on weekends along side their normal job with the added bonus attend matches for free. At the Emirates stewards are paid ÂŁ10 p/h thatâs pretty much standard rate for most London grounds
I want to know which role at Arsenal is paying 7 quid? I donât think that table is an accurate reflection
I get all that stuff about London living wage etc the truth is most part time stadia staff arenât given enough hours to sustain themselves on tbh itâs a job designed to supplement a main job
Itâs not surprising. Big profits and low wages is very prevalent in a capitalist world.
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And even with our money being far more they are a better team than us, we are so disjointed etc its terrible earning 1/2 our money. So what is our excuse for not fucking spending. We are closing in on ÂŁ400m+ a season or more and we still operate almost on profit for most of our windows. The wages and overheads have got to be stupid at arsenal for what is mostly trash!
Hollywoodâs perverted society is crumbling.
No oneâs paying me any attention.
Oh, Iâve just remembered, Dustin Hoffman asked me to massage his feet more than three decades ago, and I did massage them, so Iâm sure that counts as harassment and it will get my name in the papers.
Iâm guessing it was more down to the ass grabbing and sexual innuendo, rather than a single foot massage.
Thatâs true.
But if you are knocking around with actors and are clearly infatuated by being around them and enjoying the attention, then at some point that sort of thing is going to happen.
If you like the look of someone and then ask them for a massage, and they then proceed to do it, then itâs a fair assumption that they might be interested.
I have worked in loads of different jobs where I have had plenty of sexual innuendo thrown at me from female workers, but I donât wait for more than thirty years and go talking to the media about it.
It was sometimes embarrassing but no more than that.
This is just out of hand.
Everyone seems to be jumping on the band wagon.
Itâs not just about the sexual harassment, because thatâs what grabbing peopleâs asses and making innuendos is.
Itâs also about the power, and the ability to literally destroy your career if you make any waves.
Not forgettng itâs about the $$$$$. Thereâs no money in having your ass grabbed by a non-celeb.
Actually the less âcelebâ the harasser is, the more likely a woman is to report it and have it stopped.
Iâm sure there some unscrupulous and sleazy producers, male and female, that could do that but if you have so little talent that you have to sleep your way to get a part in a film, youâre probably in the wrong job.
Weâre not talking about having sex in order to get a good part. I donât really see a problem with that, if itâs two consenting adults. Itâs not the choice I would make, but each to their own.
This about non-consenting adults. Giving someone a foot massage doesnât then give then give them a licence to sexually harass you, no matter what reasons you had for acquiescing to their request.
This whole thing isnât about individual cases.
Obviously it is for the individuals telling the story but thatâs all those people can really do, tell their story, say how they felt etcâŚ
I donât know what any one person is trying to achieve by telling their story and I havenât read most of them but any story that emerges shines a light on an industry where harassment and even sexual assault is just so commonplace as to be almost expected/tolerated. Hopefully as more and more emerges, as institutions like the Oscars and the Emmyâs distance themselves from the people committing these acts, thatâs something that will change.
Probably, Jules. But Hollywoodâs full of golddiggers who arenât interested in a non-celeb touching them up - for the reason I stated.
Remember these are institutes that still laud Roman Polanski. They only act when they are forced to, which is why it went on for so long.
Itâs why I support all people coming forward, because you may never get a better opportunity to tell your story and be believed.
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Oh yeah. In no way was I commending them.