I am still trying to catch up with old topics so today's blog centers around a day back two or so weekends ago. Hubby and I had gone to the country for the day... while we were working on the land and enjoying our time with family, an unfortunate incident happened at my Mother's work. She works as the shipping mgr for a very large plywood manufacturing plant and the boiler blew up inside the Plant…and this time it was not repairable. So what does this mean? This means the boiler is going to cost around $2million dollars to replace and it will take around 3 months to complete the replacement work. When you break it all down, what this really means is that the Plant will be shut down and the workers are out of work…. Supposedly for only 10-12 weeks. Of course, my Mom has been freaking out for the past 2 weeks since each day something new or different is announced. Last Friday, they had a Plant wide meeting and basically reported that 2/3 of the Plant workers would be sent home that day… with insurance though. They even had Unemployment tables set up for them to file on site! I am sure this had to be very nerve-racking for all parties. I just feel so bad for her and all of those folks affected by this... it just really sucks... especially during times like these... My advise to her was that if they did not start work on that boiler SOON, then that is the worse news of all because they might decide to just shut down the Plant all together... and it could happen- they have already shut down 4 or 5 of them in the Southeast to date.
Today was her first day back with only small staff reporting. They still have to ship out all of the in-stock plywood to its destinations. After that, we are not sure what will happen with her job. With the gas prices like they are and if they send her home, it might just behoove her to stay home. And not spend money. Heck, maybe that is what we should all do.
No comments:
Post a Comment