Brian's sales have been off since the beginning of the year. He is quoting his ass off, much more than usual, but the jobs aren't getting approved.
He sold a big job to the city of Baltimore. It was in the submittal process. Then the city cancelled the project for lack of funding.
He and his boss visited 8 customers yesterday. None of them had any new work in the pipeline. One of his best customers is down to 3 months of backlog. That's not good. That's VERY not good.
Today his employer announced that they are closing one of thier factories for a week. How not good is that? That is super-mega not good.
For the very first time I fear for his job.
Time to whip out the green candles. Sister? Brother? Can you spare some mojo?