Tilting at Windmills: Pictures

I would have had some yesterday but my batteries were both dead, and the charger was having a maladjustment of some sort. Yesterday, you say? Why weren't you at work? Well, I was- for a quarter-day. You see, my part of the job was on a week from Monday ( and that working most of the week solo!), and the sewers had much of next week wrapped up. Oh, and, we just lost our second big customer in about 6 months. Why? It's like this: When we were an independant company, we searched and worked on innovations. Innovations keep you growing. But once we got bought out by the big bucks, the Biden economy and the bottom dollar pared things down to the point that the innovators were gone, replaced by the ones valiantly trying just to maintain the status quo. Specific to this instance, we were making boat covers (because that's what we do) for a client of which the attachment mechanisms were causing scratches on the boat. Instead of changing the system to another type (and all the re-design that would entail), we kept trying- and failing- to build the system better. The customer got tired of design not taking the hint, so they ordered one last stock-up order and said, "See ya later."

So after 1st break, I was chatting with the boss, where he told me the bad news, lamented that, "When you hit a downturn, what you need to do is focus on innovation to keep customers, and if the downturn persists, then downsize", which our big bosses don't do. They own enough other companies in our genre that they basically tell everyone, "sink or swim", without so much as providing swim trunks.

Okay, rant over, pictures up.