Mr. Wizard
Senior Member
- Location
- Texas
It's been awhile since I have posted, good to see everyone's still here. A little background: I own and operate an electrical contracting shop down here in the Heart of Texas, but I also work for a shop. The owner of the shop I work for has three ongoing accounts at three large manufacturing/processing plants near here, and he does no other work. He's basically a permanent fixture at the three facilities and has been at two of them over 20 years. He has no objection with me doing my own work as long I don't try to get his bread and butter. Which is fine, to do otherwise would be extremely unethical. I have worked for him for over 15 years now, so he has seen me come up through the ranks. I use none of his equipment, tools, or manpower for my jobs - completely seperate. With that being said, it has come to my attention that he was raided last week by a federal agency. Over half a dozen agents swarmed the place with search warrants, questions, and whatever elese they do - I wasn't there, I rarely go to the shop. However, that part is true, and the rumours are flying among my men (at the plants). The higher ups at the shop say they don't know anything, but that our jobs are safe. While it's not my employment that really concerns me, I am more concerned with the guys that aren't able to do side work and totally depend on the shop for a paycheck. I kind of burns to think that if they are sincere about not knowing anything, then how can they honestly tell us not to worry. The VP mentioned to me that if I hear the guys talking about it, to tell them not to worry. My response to him was that if you want to gossip and rumours to stop, then call a meeting and explain whats going on. Illegal immigrants aren't the problem, so everyone is totally in the dark about it. I'm thinking of cutting my ties and just focusing on my shop, not really knowing if I want to ride this one out. Kinda scary
