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Originally Posted by John Mercier
Then you are not in any other industry. Window manufacturers - not food or retail - are seeing extended lead times... some as much as six months. Currently of the more than two dozen vinyl siding colors, I can get you two... or you can wait up to eight months; and the list goes on and on.
Each of the manufacturers tell me the exact same thing... can't find enough help so they need to extend lead times and narrow their offerings.
The secret to every company at this time is to be selective as to your customers. Some customers will be with you for decades, for others it is just a simple singular transaction. Depending on what your company is about is how you have to resolve the choice.
Where more money used to ''buy'' us employees, that pattern no longer seems to hold true. Employees seem to be seeking something other than money... and managers have to find that.
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I agree. Shingles, glues, hardware, sawmills. It is everywhere.