Georgina Nicholas was “devastated” to lose her job at Arsenal as a result of coronavirus pandemic however will now be part of them in Europe in her position as chief government of JD Cymru Premier membership Haverfordwest.
Nicholas spent eight years at Arsenal after managing a number of retail companies in London’s West End and being headhunted by the Premier League membership to work as their retail operations supervisor.
The 38-year-old “loved my job” of overseeing 5 shops, 27 managers and 300 folks, however her world was turned the wrong way up in August 2020 when Arsenal responded to the Covid disaster by asserting plans to make 55 workers redundant.
Nicholas was amongst these to get the dreaded name to affix a Teams assembly and listen to the dangerous information as Arsenal publicly defended their actions by saying that they had checked out “every aspect of the club and our expenditure before reaching this point”.
She mentioned: “I used to be devastated, it was actually tough to handle. It was additionally devastating to see folks you spent a lot time with lose their jobs.
“I used to be instructed: ‘Look, this is the situation we’re in, that is the choice the membership has made and that is the results of that’. You’re instructed to undergo a consultancy interval the place your job is doubtlessly on the road and you may argue why you must keep in position.
“But it’s hard to argue when they’ve already made the decision. I did put some options forward about other roles, but I knew what was going to happen and that my life was going to change.”
Arsenal drew robust criticism on the time for making a swathe of redundancies of their soccer, business and administration departments.
But Nicholas stays philosophical concerning the name, saying: “Ultimately it was a enterprise determination, nothing private. It didn’t come as any shock to me.
“I’m certainly not going to criticise Arsenal because that was right for their business. I was a casualty of it as millions of other working people were during that period.”
Nicholas had left her native Pembrokeshire on the age of 17 however with few alternatives within the London retail market post-Covid she returned residence to west Wales.
She helped her household present care for her sick grandmother and briefly took a retail position that concerned an “unfeasible” quantity of journey throughout the UK.
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