Tuesday 18th June 2002

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MG Rover give workers the day off to watch footy

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[JMorgan]

Are they worried that there will be a high level of sickys, or a p!ssed workforce

[Twin Turbo]

Good job Le Mans was on a Sunday or they'd have to give them a day off to watch that too (at least that had some relevance to MG!)

[Fatboy]

Haven't they got supply probs at the moment (meaning the workers are sitting around doing sod all a fair chunk of the time) anyway?

[JonVickers]

My understanding was that the supply prob was a problem for dealers not being able to get hold of spares, so MG-R are switching some staff over to produce spares for a while. Try AutoExpress (www.autoexpress.co.uk), I think that's where it was.

[Esprit]

Well I guess It's not too bad, who knows, if BL had only given their workforce a few more days off to watch some football then maybe Triumph and the rest of the british motoring industry would have survived (please note the position of Esprit's tongue placed firmly into his cheek at this point)

[JMorgan]

Forgot about the show of hands day's off.