I wish I could say the same. The numbers of hours I have worked this year has increased a lot over last year, but my paycheck hasn't changed a cent. Like taking a pay cut just to keep my job. Gunboy keeps raggin me about taking time off, but if they give it to me, I'm gonna take it, cus they sure aren't compensating in my paycheck.
Did they have a natural gas explosion or something? That's about the only boom in FL you'll see for the next 5-10 years. Even the large companies like Lowes, have been effected in FL. I went to buy some thin wall sticks of irrigation pipe about a month ago since they had it on-sale in the newspaper for $.52 a stick. I got there on the second day of the sale and they only had 23 sticks left. I figured that they must have sold the 10-20, 50 stick bundles they used to keep on hand. I asked the manager if they had anymore or when more would be in and was told they only had 3 - 50 stick bundles delivered for the entire sale and no more was scheduled to be delivered to the store. The big companies aren't even able to keep inventory in stock, storage or in the warehouse due to cost and over head. Most work (construction trades) is government (fed, state, county, and city) work. Regular commericial job bids are being released and awarded at either labor only prices or for below operating cost. Our sister company in GA just started feeling the recession which hit FL in OCt 2008 about six months ago. We are in deep shart here man...
I just lost an $80,000.00 job from one of my regular customers. 800 sheets of drywall and almost 800 feet of firewall framing at an airport on the east coast.Also a lot of special fire caulking. The guys over there were half my price. And I even curbed a little of my regular pricing. I lost a house in Brooksville last month and I gave them people an almost labor cost for cash. He said he had a Mexican guy that was 1500 cheaper than me.It sucks,Mexicans get welfare,food stamps,full medical,and they don't have to pay taxes. I get F'd.
We have been building new schools,Dr. offices and banks mostly.We have a few big jobs comming up.Just finished a retirement nures fac. That is 6 city block,have another coming up almost as big but 3 story.Our sister company is doing a new school in crysal River
I have to get up to your office and meet your people and hopefully get on a bid list with you guys.
My brother-in-law said Jax. is starting to boom.
It is from what I hear also as I am working on several projects with our jax office presently. I don't really like jax but you have got to go where the work is at. Good luck bodysnatcher
Hook me up man. I'm actually going to frame a job in Titusville in the am,gonna come back Fri and try to get to the woods for the weekend. I got a little work going on again but it's been terrible.I need some new customers. Do y'all use the same subs or do you bid everything out?
