MANCHESTER UNITED have reportedly angered car park staff by removing catering facilities from their portakabins at Old Trafford – and now they have to ASK to use the loo.
In a strange and unexplained move, it has been claimed kettles, fridges, tables, toasters — and even teabags and coffee which staff used on matchdays — were taken away from the four cabins dotted around the car parks for staff to use on their breaks.
And disgruntled staff have now allegedly been told they must use a new room with electrical appliances and a television in the stadium itself, a longer walk from the car parks themselves.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, that was of no use to the workforce – most of whom earn just minimum wage – and many of whom are based a long distance away.
A source said: ‘The cabins were a little place you could go to if the weather was awful. People on early shifts would go and make a piece of toast or get a tea or a coffee and it was somewhere you could put your butties.
“On Wednesday a car turned up and stripped the lot of them. Some of the kettles and toasters weren’t even owned by the club — staff had brought them in themselves. We couldn’t believe it.
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“They say we should go to the police room, which has been refurbished, but we only get 20-minute breaks and it takes some of us almost 10 minutes to get there.’
The source added that morale among the staff, most of whom earn just £7.20 an hour, was at an all-time low.
He added: “You’re paying the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic £250,000 a week and taking teabags and coffee from staff. You honestly couldn’t make it up. Morale was bad before but this is something else.”
The source incredibly added that staff now have to seek PERMISSION to go to the toilet. He said: "They used to just cover for each other if one needed to go to the loo.
"Now, they have to radio the supervisor to request permission for a toilet break. It’s degrading and unnecessary."
The decision was thought to have been made jointly by the club’s car parks operations manager and head of stadium safety and security, to "make it more professional".
Manchester United did not comment.
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