Haverfordwest CEO preparing for Europe after ‘devastating’ Arsenal redundancy – Soccer News

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Georgina Nicholas was “devastated” to lose her job at Arsenal because of the coronavirus pandemic however will now be a part of them in Europe in her position as chief govt of JD Cymru Premier membership Haverfordwest.

Nicholas spent eight years at Arsenal after managing a number of retail companies in London’s West Finish and being headhunted by the Premier League membership to work as their retail operations supervisor.

The 38-year-old “beloved 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 saying plans to make 55 employees redundant.

Nicholas was amongst these to get the dreaded name to affix a Groups assembly and listen to the unhealthy information as Arsenal publicly defended their actions by saying that they had checked out “each side of the membership and our expenditure earlier than reaching this level”.

She stated: “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 informed: ‘Look, that is the state of affairs we’re in, that is the choice the membership has made and that is the results of that’. You’re informed to undergo a consultancy interval the place your job is probably on the road and you may argue why it’s best to keep in position.

“Nevertheless it’s laborious to argue after they’ve already made the choice. I did put some choices ahead about different roles, however I knew what was going to occur and that my life was going to vary.”

Arsenal drew sturdy criticism on the time for making a swathe of redundancies of their soccer, business and administration departments.

However Nicholas stays philosophical concerning the name, saying: “In the end it was a enterprise resolution, nothing private. It didn’t come as any shock to me.

“I’m actually not going to criticise Arsenal as a result of that was proper for his or her enterprise. I used to be a casualty of it as hundreds of thousands of different working folks have been throughout that interval.”

Nicholas had left her native Pembrokeshire on the age of 17 however with few alternatives within the London retail market post-Covid she returned dwelling to west Wales.

She helped her household present take care of her sick grandmother and briefly took a retail position that concerned an “unfeasible” quantity of journey throughout the UK.