How's everyone's work load going at the jobsite.....

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SLOPAR72

SLOPAR72

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It has sucked from a production standpoint since March. We are way way down.... However we acquired a heavy hitter in sales and the owner has me retrofitting a machine for PPE and all things that surround it. It's a challenge to say the least but were getting somewhere with it finally. Not having a Mill, lathe, or any type of precision fabrication equipment makes for old school ways but it works.....

For alteast the next 2 weeks we are slammed. I hope this is the beginning of an upward trend. They use to say when the economy stay shooting upward after a downfall Printing is the first to feel it. Different era but I will take the deal for today. I think everyone is ready to move some rocks and see asses and elbows lol.....

That's my report. How about everyone else?

JW
 
I'm working at home building power chair drive modules. Frankly as old as I am, and should be retired, when that runs out I just might quit. Not sure I think there's 40 some more boards to go. Not much chance of much of a raise, especially from this company. On there side, there's less and less I can do. My back is getting worse.
 
I have not missed a day of work, and the load is the same. Phone lines don't take breaks when people stay at home. We actually had an uptick when people realized that their home phones hadn't worked in months but it took a stay at home order to force them to use their land lines again.
 
I've been working from home since March 16th.
My work markets training materials for fire fighters and EMS. My accounts are city and county departments on the west coast and the northern half of the USA, federal government/military, and all international accounts.
Generally sales have been dropping off each month as most city/county employees are also working from home and training academies have curtailed training for the time being.
I'm doing much more prospecting for departments in my territory that we don't have a business history with and also cold-calling accounts we haven't done any business with in over a year.
 
I run the cleaning contract at a large textile mill. My team of 50 have been laid off since the end of March except for two weeks that we ran half staffing. Personally, I'm starting my 7th week laid off today.

The mill is supposed to start back up on June 15th. I hope they do, I'm ready to get back to normal.
 
I’ve been off for over three months with pay, there’s just so much you can do. Working on my Charger or sitting watching TV kills my back. I’m going to hate retirement.
 
Been working from home since March 17. I'm feeling what pishta is feeling, except from the engineering/design side of providing service. We work in the same industry/field on opposite coasts. I've built it, maintained it, installed it, taught it, supervised the build/maintain /install of it and am now on the design side of it - I've loved it for 32 years and looking for 10 more. The initial rush of the new work from home public workforce and online school students in the same home, suddenly realized they need faster Internet speeds. New service orders and upgrades spiked the first few weeks. Then the powers that be decided our techs would not be going inside the customer's homes, so several self-install options became avail to the customers who met certain criteria. That short lull in our regular "fix it from the back end workload" allowed my team to catch up on a ton of records corrections as they relate to facities. On June 1, the we started going back into homes. So my team of 10 that are under me have been working our normal jobs from home, while those of us with kids double as teachers/tutors. We were told last week that our workgroup will continue to work from home thru September. I don't feel it it necessary at this point, but I'll take it.
 
There is no work load anymore. I am done, retired. I should have stayed there the first time.
 
I work for a power company, so it's been business as usual pretty much. I have been working from home since March, and don't ever plan on going back in the office unless it's kicking and screaming if we ever start having face to face meetings again. 2 years and 2 months, and I will be outta there anyway....and it will be so fast there will be a sonic boom!
 
Well,
I've been sitting on my ***!
My work halted when the schools closed. I allowed my license to expire for other reasons, and was content to sub teach for awhile. It actually was a pretty good gig! No lesson plans, no pissy parents, side assignments, no testing and depending on the subject, all I had to do was babysit for the day.
For that, I was paid between $150 to $200 a day depending on the school district.
My little side job at the repair shop went away when the owners decided it was time to retire.
So, until the end of August, I'm spinning wheels.
 
It feels like November or January looking at my shop shelves! No summer slow-down this year -- with all the shows and events canceled or postponed, guys are treating it like the Fall Teardown Season and I'm slammed.
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I work in semiconductor and we are considered "essential" due to communications, defense and medical customers. No change except any non hands on employees are working from home. That said....I hope you guys and gals who are not working keep your heads up. It's gonna turn real fast.
 
I work for a residential/ commercial cabinet shop. We were shut the first two weeks in Mn shutdown then called back to work. Applied for unemployment and never received anything, must not have done it properly. Can’t get through and not getting any help from employer, they’re to busy with their new $127,000 new boat. They are running business schedules like there never were any shutdowns, pub,push push. It may be time to retire
 
I'm in commercial construction / development and can say I'm busier than ever. We had a few projects get put on hold due to market uncertainty, but we've managed to maintain all employees and our current projects are going well into 2021 and have a strong backlog into 2021 and beyond. We would have needed to hire if the projects that got put on hold did end up breaking, so in a way it's worked out.

That being said, super bummed to hear of all the layoffs and market issues across the nation. We live in the greatest country and am confident everything will bounce back stronger than ever.
 
New job is at a flour mill working in the QC lab, started Feb 24th. It's been steady, picking up some as a mill in Minnesota was unfortunately shut down. All those people now unemployed. There are 4 techs, we take turns working weekends, that's Saturday and Sunday. When it's your turn you work 12 days before a day off. All in all not a bad gig. Nice job right before retirement.
 
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