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2nd July 2022
02:12pm BST

A 19-year-old gap year student, working as part of the housekeeping team, said that they were 'chuffed' to work at Wimbledon because they were paid relatively well.
"But we were working on Wednesday and during our lunch break my [friend] sat on the hill and had some strawberries," they said.
"Next thing, he gets an email saying that he won’t be getting any more shifts. Now we’re literally all bricking it to do anything on our breaks or even sit on the hill after we finish working in case we get told there won’t be any more shifts for us. The whole thing is bizarre."
Another temporary worker labelled the situation a 'shambles', adding: "I think it’s reflective on the management here. They’re firing people left, right and centre. They’re basically overstaffed and they said there’s not enough fans here – not what they expected – so they’re having to fire people."People are being fired because they’re overstaffed and they’re using the fact that staff are watching tennis and drinking as an excuse."
"As you may have noticed, visitor numbers are lower than expected, for this reason the AELTC have asked that we look at reducing our day staff numbers," it reportedly said.
While the capacity at Wimbledon is 42,000 a day, attendance has been slightly lower than expected. On Wednesday and Thursday earlier this week, there were roughly 38,500 fans in attendance.Related links:

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