My wife works as a regional grocery chain manager and she has fought employment for the last year basically. Nobody wants to work they can stay home on the lucrative unemployment benefits and bring home more pay. When is this going to end? I had a buddy that took the whole spring off to turkey hunt last year and I suspect again this year while he can draw unemployment at a higher rate than his normal pay. Sad
Good luck with that. All the weekend warriors buying up lumber now dont buy mill direct. That's lumber 101.Nah I prefer mill direct. Something I can show you. That’s lumber 101.
Yah we had guys refusing to come back to work last year unless they were guaranteed more than 40 hours when season kicked off because what they were making on unemployment. That's gonna come back to bite them when things slow down and there the first to go and there's no unemployment stimulus to help next time.
If I had to hand nail all the time like when I started out, my body would have been shot 25 years ago. Wages are very good right now. How long this house of cards lasts is the real question. Not much longer is my prediction.
I see spray-painted “Now Hiring” signs next to major hotel chains here in the Midwest. The owners must not be able to hire or keep basic labor to clean, manage, & run their hotels.
Son in law and daughter are running it now. New store went in around 2005. They'll probably sell it to you if you want to buy it.
Crypto thread already here. It's a hoot!
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Darby's got a decent lumber yard now, and you won't have to drive all the way to Hamilton. Buy that one.
Yah more than likely the original staff is making more now on unemployment, the. They were at the hotel before layoff. Be interesting to see what happens when the unemployment runs out.
Bill sees inflation coming and is diversifying his assets.
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Seems time is the most precious commodity. For those that have the ability to wait, it will pay off.
I sure hope your right.
Question is probably how long will you have to wait?. Nothing cures high prices like high prices. But if you are a supplier, like an ammo manufacturer or lumber supplier, do you increase manufacturing capacity by incurring a bunch of high fixed costs (new plant, new equipment, hire more workers, etc) if you don't think that change in demand is permanent? I haven't heard anyone say they are going to do that. We will see how that changes over the next 3-6 months.
I wonder how many more small guys are starting there own business as well. That will help create more supply. Sort of like when corn and beans went way up a few years ago. Never saw so many pastures and fields that usually aren't farmed get plowed up and planted. Last year they sat stagnant. Maybe that's a totally different situation but I think there is similarities there idk.
