Bummed

[AngieDoogles]

I think it's a good idea to take some time for yourself and read. It always helps me to "escape" in a book when I'm feeling stressed.

[HALEY]

Marlilyn how is it going at work??? Same depressing day here... starting next pay we will see are 5% pay cut.. so i was redoing some of my bills last night.. moved some around, Thank God my cc will be paid off next pay, finally!!! then that will give us some extra money next month, then i have Micah's second Birthday party to deal with, its going to be small no big deal this year...

[Marilyn]

Haley, I just don't know. I visited a customer yesterday who makes needle coke. It's a material that goes into electrodes. They are shutting down for two months due to lack of sales. Just a few months ago they were going and blowing, revamping the plant, two expansion projects in engineering. We sold them lots of valves last year, and one of the projects was going to be huge for them and us. All their storage is full, and they have literally a mountain of unsold coke in the plant. Looks like a huge pile of coal.

Their are laying off all contractors with the expection of 5 or 6 engineers. The shift workers are going to straight days, 40 hr weeks, and will be doing the maintenance work, mowing lawns and such if needed. There really isn't any maintenance to do since their outage last year. BTW, their owner is in Pennsylvania.

The people in the plant are scared. The same plant went bankrupt several years ago and shutdown for almost a year, laying off all but just a few people. Their new owner had really turned it around, found lots of global customers.

I'm beginning to wonder if there is anyone left to sell to. What a mess!!!

[HALEY]

It is a mess Marilyn, we been in the red at work for 2 months now, i'm just waiting for them to lay us off for a couple months. Hopefully, its not permanent, I just Thank God everyday that Mike is working so good, but then again his government job ends in September, so i don't know where there going to send him after that, if there's no work around here there going to send him out of town again, and that is a nightmare on me by myself with Micah, but i did it before and will do it again i guess..
If i get laid off, i'll just bartend under the table again like i did before to make ends meet.. we'll see what happens. I know a couple of clubs that need parttime daylight bartenders... Mike is not going to like the idea, but i have to do what i have to do...
Maybe there is a light at the end of this long tunnel but i don't see it yet????

[HALEY]

their owner is in Pennsylvania.


What company is this?

[Marilyn]

It's called Seadrift Coke. It has maintained this name through various owners. I'm not sure what the parent company is actually called. They are probably just dba Seadrift Coke. The man who owns them, and I don't know his name, has a background in the steel mills of PA, but decided to branch out into the coke industry. He's supposed to own this plant and one other. You know he's gotta be sick over what is happening.

[HALEY]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

It's called Seadrift Coke. It has maintained this name through various owners. I'm not sure what the parent company is actually called. They are probably just dba Seadrift Coke. The man who owns them, and I don't know his name, has a background in the steel mills of PA, but decided to branch out into the coke industry. He's supposed to own this plant and one other. You know he's gotta be sick over what is happening.

I'm kinda in the Steel Mill industry, don't know to much about Coke.. and i never heard of Seadrift Coke..
I went to a good friend of mines childs birthday party this weekend and found out that here husband just got laid off Friday, and basically they told him they don't know if they can hire him back.. how depressing... and they just purchased that house about 2 years ago, don't know how there going to keep up on the payments if he can't find another job... even Birthday parties are depressing to go to...