Pull up a chair, grab a cold one, and talk about life as a locksmith. Trade stories of good and bad customers, general work day frustrations, any fun projects you worked on recently, or anything else you want to chat about with fellow locksmiths.
I'm a network administrator, and have paper work I carry in the car that allows me to travel without getting pulled over by the police as I am essential personnel.
We are rotating our shift where 1 IT person is in per day, and my day is Friday so I get to drive down the empty streets to work and drive home down the empty eerie zombie movie streets on the way home.
So today you're going to work. Lucky you. I've been working from home for one month. It sucks. But it's people like you that allow non essential people like me to stay at home.
We are still running jobs but are down to about 8 jobs a day. Tomorrow we only have two jobs scheduled. We are replacing a pair of doors on the rear of a pawn shop and we have to install a Detex Advantex delayed egress exit device. If the day goes to plan we will pick up another 5 jobs by the end of the day. We also have to carry the letter for police.
Our shop is manned but not open to the public. People can drop things off outside to be worked on, we clean the item before bringing it inside. We are not taking cash payments at this time, only accounts or credit. We call the person to pick it up. Once they arrive we take their credit card and place their items outside for them.
I have been home this week running things from the house. One employee was tested for the virus yesterday and until we get his results he is self-isolating at home.
cledry wrote:We are still running jobs but are down to about 8 jobs a day. Tomorrow we only have two jobs scheduled. We are replacing a pair of doors on the rear of a pawn shop and we have to install a Detex Advantex delayed egress exit device. If the day goes to plan we will pick up another 5 jobs by the end of the day. We also have to carry the letter for police.
Our shop is manned but not open to the public. People can drop things off outside to be worked on, we clean the item before bringing it inside. We are not taking cash payments at this time, only accounts or credit. We call the person to pick it up. Once they arrive we take their credit card and place their items outside for them.
I have been home this week running things from the house. One employee was tested for the virus yesterday and until we get his results he is self-isolating at home.
Stay safe man. My folks are in Broward County, it's hitting pretty hsrd there and they sre in the 65+ demographic.
Just did some work for a place in Orlando and as a tip they gave us 4 cases of 48 bottles of hand sanitizer. They are tiny and basically all alcohol, not a gel. However we will use it gladly in the service vehicles. One of our employees found some old N95 masks in his garage they were listed as for use in sanding drywall.
Many of the jobs we go on are requiring masks and gloves.
The good news is: The state and federal government, universities, hospitals and the like seem to have found a pot of gold. We are getting approvals on old quotes, months old that are between 25K and 50K for each job. We are running our collective butts off.
The one employee that was tested for the virus tested negative and returned to work. However on his first job he called and said he had a hernia and his guts were sticking out through his stomach. So we are a man down for the foreseeable. Even though we paid his wages through the isolation period we can't pay for his time off with the hernia and he has already used up all of his sick days this year. He generally calls in sick once every 2 weeks.
