slow business

[Silver R/T]

Anyone else working for companies that have slow business right now? Are you worried about getting laid off, what will you be doing if you do get laid off. We're going to be doing work-share where everyone will be working only 20hr weeks and rest will be paid by unemployment. This is pretty bad time for this crap, especially when holidays are coming up soon.

[PocketThunder]

no slow down for me!  as long as america need energy i'll have a job.

Paul
Estimator of Oil Refinery Construction and Power Plant Construction

[moparstuart]

we have been slow for over a year and my company is only 4 year old.  We are making it but it's tight .

[PocketThunder]

we have been slow for over a year and my company is only 4 year old.  We are making it but it's tight .

you know you could sell another truck if you would jsut trade me for my parts car....   

[WingCharger]

no slow down for me!  as long as america need energy i'll have a job.

Paul
Estimator of Oil Refinery Construction and Power Plant Construction

My dad says the same thing. He is a operator at a local Coal Power Plant. For those of you who know anything about power plants, it was the first Nuclear to Coal Conversion in the world.

[moparstuart]

we have been slow for over a year and my company is only 4 year old.  We are making it but it's tight .

you know you could sell another truck if you would jsut trade me for my parts car....   

how is trading selling , that makes me no money 

[PocketThunder]

we have been slow for over a year and my company is only 4 year old.  We are making it but it's tight .

you know you could sell another truck if you would jsut trade me for my parts car....   

how is trading selling , that makes me no money 

Think of ALL the parts off my parts car that you can use for your Daytona that will save you money!  Saving equals making!

[moparstuart]

we have been slow for over a year and my company is only 4 year old.  We are making it but it's tight .

you know you could sell another truck if you would jsut trade me for my parts car....   

how is trading selling , that makes me no money 

Think of ALL the parts off my parts car that you can use for your Daytona that will save you money!  Saving equals making!

I dont think my buisness partners would see it that way 

[Ghoste]

I don't worry nearly as much about a layoff as I do union radicals driving the company out of town.  Strike deadline is next summer and I'm putting away money because the idiots who allegedly speak on my behalf seem hell bent to close the place.

[41husk]

It seems the person that has the least knoledge of every day operations, makes all the decisions effecting it, in corporate model

[Old Moparz]

The last place I worked at, for almost 10 years, was a problem when the economy took a dump. Where I am right now, it's the opposite. I was at a civil engineering firm that had an incompetent owner who sold it to another incompetent owner that finally put it under when the economy slowed. Now, I'm an estimator for a site contractor that's been in business for roughly 85 years & run by the same family the whole time. (I've been here since 1996) If there's any good reason at all for a slow economy, it weeds out the dipshit contractors & consultants in a hurry. We're busier now than several years ago & have a few contracts that will keep us busy until at least the end of next year.

We're doing highway improvements for NYS, airport improvements at 2 airports, one of which is for the Port of Authority, more improvements to local roadways & culverts for one town, various work at West Point, & we're almost done with a brand new, private automotive race track in Monticello, NY that's now open. We're still bidding on other work that fits into our schedule, but we are able to be "pickier" about what we bid on. Private developments have slowed down quite a bit, but that's where I see the incompetents disappearing first. They can't get involved with the work that's going on because they've burned their bridges when the economy was better.

[BigBlockSam]

    very slow rite now , guitar business did what the housing market did . plus august is my slowest time. Rene

[SFRT]

I am lucky, I'm turning work away.

[moparstuart]

I am lucky, I'm turning work away.

wish i had that problem 

[Neal_J]

When the tech bubble of 2000 burst, I was affected and I vowed never to let that happen again.  So, I feel fortunate to have a gig in healthcare (never a shortage of sick people), in the public sector (company can't get bought/sold), with only two competitors (where we have 2/3 of the market) and huge barriers to new competitors entering the market.  It also doesn't hurt that the role I do is hard to replace with someone fresh outta college...

People are sick so business is good!~

Neal

[squeakfinder]

No slow down for me. Working in food preservation it's 6 days a week write now.

People can do without allot of things.

But they absolutely have to eat, and they have to sh't.

[WingCharger]

No slow down for me. Working in food preservation it's 6 days a week write now.

People can do without allot of things.

But they absolutely have to eat, and they have to sh't.

Well, people will have to have power too, so being a Mechaincal Engineer at the same power plant my dad works at will be a solid job. College will be expensive though.

[dads_69]

Silver, which body shop do you work at Spokane? You can pm if you chose to keep a low profile.
My shop is swapped w/work. I could work 7 days a week if I chose to, but no thanks. I have a life out side of work.

Mark

[TK73]

I have ALL the OVERTIME I can stand right now!!  Business is GREAT and it's gonna stay for several years!!  I'd like to thank our commander-in-chief for keeping me in a good job so I can support my family!!

- TK: Unemployment Insurance Adjudicator, State of Washington

[Rolling_Thunder]

Business is pretty slow at the shop...      but it gives me time to work on my own sh!t for a change...       worried about being layed off ?   ummm   not really...   Plenty of other shops i can go work at...   Steve Strope said whenever I wanted to go over to PV just let him know....           


Shop Manager: Mopar Restoration Shop

[chargerboy69]

We have been very slow. I was laid off 3 weeks ago, and I was there for almost 10 years. Sucks, but I am hoping something turns up soon.

[Brock Samson]

 sorry to hear that Chargerboy,..

The newspaper where I used to work (and took a buyout from last yr.) is laying off 125 as of yet unnamed folks anyday... I hear the morale there is terrible... 

[bull]

I have ALL the OVERTIME I can stand right now!!  Business is GREAT and it's gonna stay for several years!!  I'd like to thank our commander-in-chief for keeping me in a good job so I can support my family!!

- TK: Unemployment Insurance Adjudicator, State of Washington

Really? The US unemployment rate hasn't gone any higher than 6.1% since April of '94 and Washington State is at 5.7% currently. What's the big deal? Do you guys have to work double shifts when it gets to 6% or more? This might have more to do with the poor efficiency of the workers in your office than the unemployment rate.

[squeakfinder]

No slow down for me. Working in food preservation it's 6 days a week write now.

People can do without allot of things.

But they absolutely have to eat, and they have to sh't.

Well, people will have to have power too, so being a Mechaincal Engineer at the same power plant my dad works at will be a solid job. College will be expensive though.

Thats write, but you have to use that electricity to refrigerate the food, and to cook it. And you need light to see the toilet  .

[squeakfinder]

We have been very slow. I was laid off 3 weeks ago, and I was there for almost 10 years. Sucks, but I am hoping something turns up soon.

I hate to say it, but when i was in the Guard back in the early 80's I had a hell of time getting a decent job.