There is many reasons a business can be losing money. It may or may not have anything to do with the slackers on the floor. Could be sales or estimators under bidding jobs. Could be purchasing overpaying for materials. Failure to accept and purchase new technology making the operations less efficient than others. The business may be burden with to much debt. Might be a combination of all these.
Anyways I read through the thread again.
There it is on the last paragraph of your eighth post in this thread #31 you finally said something positive about someone you work with. It was about one of your supervisors right before you bashed the others in the same paragraph.
I'm not discounting or disagreeing with anything your saying. Just pointing out there needs to be a balance. Nobody, even the owner wants to hear everything that's wrong all the time even when they ask. The situation is still in the early stages and can play out any number of ways. Hopefully if you demonstrate in addition to your bust *** work skills that you can accept responsibility, have the right attitude, respect others and communicate well. It sounds like this could play out in your favor and I hope it does.
On your way to the top just remember there is a real art to encouraging and keeping employees motivated and it played out with you at work. When you were called a company terrorist how did that feel? If you don't remember look at your early postings. Then the power of encouragement and praise form the CFO and your supervisor in the meetings later. How did that make you feel? Probably pretty good and rightfully so. You don't have to turn a blind eye to the wrongs, it's all about how you deal with them that counts in the end.