Last year I was unemployed for a total of 5 weeks here & there, but nothing longer than 2 weeks at a time. We also took a 20% pay cut on the 23rd of January last year. Sometime around March or so they gave me and a couple other guys who produce some money back, and then I think it was June or July we got up to 10% pay cuts. Sometime maybe in September or October we made it up to a 5% pay cut.
Last week was my first week back working at 100% pay. It's been rough, but it would have been worse on unemployment. As of late, our shop is swamped up into June, and other than next week which will be at 40 hours, it looks like we'll be on 45's thru then as well.
The biggest obstacle right now for our shop is getting in stock on time. We use a lot of tool steel which all of our suppliers seem to be running out of because they ran down their inventory with the economy the way it is. Only shop I know of in the Fox Valley that's busy and hireing right now
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