I am happy to see that some of the EC's understand how operating at a loss can do to both themself and their employees.
Over the years, I always held on to my employees, even though at times I had to put up my home and presonal assets to keep the doors open, I was one of the few area EC's to do that most of them, let their men go, the first sign of work slowing, to this day, everyone of my past employees, stay in touch, and after last year have been just great.
You see, last year was a bit of a disaster, the market slowed, and the work week backed off, I still kept the guys on, with a 28K bank loan, then a week later I was having dinner when I got a call, I am sorry but the tests came back, it was the doctor telling me my wife was very ill, the good news was my guys without a word, took over, taking care of everything in the business, while I took care of my wife, no need to say, she was a big part of making the business run, after 4 weeks in the hospital, she wanted to be home, so we made a hospital room at home, and has 3 more weeks together, and then on a sunday afternoon, I heard my daughter screaming mommy wake up, I loved her so much, I lied to her about the bank notices that they raised our line of credit from prime plus 5 to 22% she passed thinking everything was ok.
