Zombie The Coronavirus Financial Thread (Personal, Local, National)

Hmmm, sounds like a full service bank.

 

Abm is out if there are no a2m fees

 

There use to be a Citizens bank in Oregon. I had a savings account in it. It I started saving 10 cents a week thru my grade school back in the mid 50s. I used that money and some money left to me when my grandmother died to buy my first car when I got out of the Army. They were located on State St. near 'A' avenue in Oswego.

 

Can't we just raise the minimum wage, print more money or hand out more stimmys to fix this?

 

Crazy Sly's furniture and appliances. I'm slashing prices so low that I'm losing money on each sale. Now, back to your late night movie.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/nike-cance...es-wreak-havoc-holiday-shopping-1652702?amp=1

Nike Cancels Store's Orders Until Summer '22 as Supply Chain Issues Wreak Havoc on Holiday Shopping

 

If the Govt still used the same formula as they did in 1980, the inflation rate would be 10%+

 

The five and dime store in my home town when I was a boy is probably selling their stuff for five bucks.

 

They've no longer said five and dime for about 60 years. The closest thing is the Dollar Store.

 

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/amazon-workers-plan-black-friday-strike/

Amazon workers plan Black Friday strike

One of the largest retailers might be short on workers on the biggest shopping day.

 

Amazon cant wait to replace all with robots.

 

so far from true in the steel industry.
Yes scrap value has risen, but so has cost of steel so thst offsets.
There is no scenario my boss is content with seeing scrap go that could have been saved or not purchased.
Efficiency is the name of our game and scrapped material is not efficient.cant imagine scrapped material being efficient or owners being happy with the numbers.

I deal with those numbers on a daily basis. No one i know is happy with a large scrap percentage….

 

I have worked for the government. More than once. Never federal though.
Only state.
Never saw efficiency numbers but saw enough of the “here to collect my check” mentality, i knew it wasn't for me.

 

I've worked in the steel industry for 20 years... This is coming from experience. If it's not counted as a scrapped part it doesn't impact the scrap percentage.

There is no efficient way to catch it if your employees want to hide it.

 

who is ordering the steel? You dont track what comes in vs what comes out?

we have easy ways of tracking scrap. No employee in our shop can do what you are talking about.
I question your companies model if they are incapable of tracking waste to an employee.

 

for more detail, i order 25 lengths @ 40’ of some W30x 247# and the job says we need 23 lengths to net the customers required footage, we know if we used 24 instead of 23 or if we were able to get it out of 22 lengths with three left over.

im not sure how your company isnt able to track scrap. But in my company thats been around since 33’ bending and fabricating steel, we track every foot of material from when it comes in to where it goes.
So im not saying your lieing at all, but if your company isnt able to track scrap, they either don't care about employee efficiency enough or don't know management skills enough to develop a tracking method. Steel, because of it largely being sold by cost per lb is very trackable. One of the easier things to track waste on.

 

Our parts are nearly all under 3". We could scrap $1000 worth of parts over 1ft of material.

It's literally not worth keeping track of the scrap material. What we want to track is the time on the machine. But again, as rarely as it's problem with good employees it's not worth putting much effort into tracking.
It would cost far more to institute controls than you would ever save in production.

This is where bean counters think they are making a difference but in reality are just costing money and slowing things down.

Like drug tests for food stamps. Incredibly expensive and horribly ineffective. Stepping over dollars to pick up dimes.