The company I am with now does mostly govt work building schools. The last two schools they completed, the counties are not releasing the funds for the final draws. That is budgeted money set aside for those projects that they are holding. Lawyers are getting involved, but that doesn't help me now. Put on layoff week before xmas and still waiting. They as a company have plenty of work, but they can't do the work to get paid because they cant make payroll to carry us until the counties release the funds. Its a heck of a mess.
In one school the door supplier (which has been in business for 85 years) can't afford to buy the doors. My company cant float the bill to help them help us, and cant break the contract to go somewhere else. That school alone has enough door work to keep 4 men busy for 4 months. Lawyers there again too.
Its very frustrating that there is $600,000+ sitting in an account somewhere that is not being used because someones not ready to write the check. Wheres the stimulus money at there? didn't the counties get money to prevent this sort of thing?
At the bid openings they go to they have 50-60 companies competing where they used to have 6. So many companies are bidding out of their field and doing so poorly that it's either bid to lose money or bid to lose the job. One company came up $1,000,000 BELOW the average bid numbers. 30 companies with numbers within 200,000 of one another and then that clown cant read the specs and gets the job. You can't compete with that. That company will go out of business on the job guaranteed, but they got the job. They tell me that this company had 120 men there before I got there. Now there are 2 foremen and 4 carpenters, one of which is me. I feel fortunate that they seem to think they need me and want me around, but come one now. You do over $10 million in work a year and can't keep 6 guys busy?
Things are bad in Maryland, as I suspect it is everywhere else. I emailed a guy on craigslist that was looking for siding help for 50 a day. Never got a phone call. Walmart greeters make that much. Oh well I guess Change is coming! Hope it hasn't already got here cause if thats the case I'll keep my guns and my freedom and they can keep the change. Rant over.
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