Feeling the aftermath

[TRACY ART & FRAME]

As with all that have posted our prayers go out to the families of the victims,the rescue workers and the leaders of our country.

This is terribly trivial but with the emotional roller coster ride we have all been on these last few days I am ready to blow.

I spent most of tuesday glued to the tube. I was/am mad but I didn't think how this might affect my biz.

We had just recieved a bid job for a 250 peice job due on the 19th. We would have struggeled to add this to our work load but took the job any how.

I had just recently been sent a packet from contract framing services outside of Chicago.
I contacted them and this seemed like my white knight. A great price and they said they could get the job done.

As in other post murphy steped in, The client in Atlanta wanted to see a proof of the job before they would ok the printing portion of the job. No problem. just red label it down to them as well as e-mail.
guess what No red label, No flying.so we told them that they would have to Ok of of the e-mail.
Just as client will always do the farted around about giving us an go ahead, till I called and told them now or never. well we got the go ahead, started printing the job, faxed the P.O. to contract framing service.

But now because of the lack of air service the prints won't get to the framer till monday. They promise me that they will fave the framing comlete by tuesday afternoon, but there is no time to ship them back to columbus for the 19th.

So I guess I'm driving to Chicago on tuesday to pick these things up. http://www.thegrumble.com/framer/ubbs/fire.gif

The good news is that I'm making over 4k on the job less gas money.

I find it amazing how an event in NY has so quickly touched the busness side as well.

Thank you for allowing me to vent.
I don't feel better now but hopefully soon.



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Diver Dave

[Cheryl Crocker CPF GCF]

I had customers in Tuesday wanting to know why they couldn't get moulding rushed from a vendor out of NY for pick-up on Friday! I told them because part of NY is gone! Then they asked if I could get it overnighted... After considering all the smart-assed remarks swirling around in my dazed head, I just said: NO! Incredible. I had a vision of a courier guy with a big stick of moulding strapped to his back, peddling furiously through smoke and debris...get real, people!

[framechick]

It's incredible. I understand that eventually we'll have to get back to business, but I think it will be a long time before it's "as usual".

My company is based in NYC - much further uptown - and normally a van goes from the production location to the NYC store twice a day. All cars going into Manhattan have to stop at a checkpoint and be thouroughly searched. No one minds, but it does change how things happen. There are no rush jobs until further notice. I just can't imagine anybody not understanding why.

[Bogframe]

It's amazing how some people just don't get it. Meanwhile here in the City, I've seen how disaster can make a City come together. Maybe this will set an example for the rest of the planet.

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Seth J. Bogdanove, CPF
22 years framing and still loving it!
As usual, the website is www.masterclamp.com (http://www.masterclamp.com)

[NetFramer]

I hope you are right Seth!

[amanda]

I am amazed that people even expect work to be done. Our mall was closed tues and wed. And then of course, no deliveries thurs and fri. People are extremely understanding here!

[Jim Miller]

Customers expecting overnight shipments at this time? That seems unreasonable; they probably just need a reality check.

Americans are the most pampered and privileged people on earth. Most of us know acts of war only as history, and relatively few have experienced such raw tragedy. Most are far removed from the disaster sites.

The TV coverage looks surreal, like special effects from a movie. We commonly see terrible images from Hollywood and video games, which are not real, but appear to be. We call it entertainment.

Some may need a reminder that what happened last Tuesday was no movie; no special effect; no game. It was real. Seth and others in the affected areas smell the smoke, breathe the dust, witness firsthand the horror of devastated lives.

Many Americans may have a hard time comprehending what has happened, and what is going to happen as a result. The entire world is involved with these events, as they continue to unfold.

For Americans, WWII began on December 7, 1941. What began on September 11, 2001? I shudder to think about that.

[RonEggers]

I don't know that this is the best thread or forum for this, but it needs saying.

Osama bin Laden is telling us that there are 1.25 billion Muslims wordlwide who are ready and willing to die to rid the world of infidels, i.e Americans, Israelis, and the governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. What seesm lost on bin Laden, and many of us, is that the overwhelming majority of mainstream Muslims decry the kind of violent jihad that bin Laden practices. They may believe that Islamic martyrs gain a special place in heaven, and they may be willing to die for their faith, (as are many true Christians) but they are not willing to murder. Nor do they believe that murder of innocents is allowed by Islamic law.

There are 5-6 million Muslims in the U.S., many of them living in fear of bigoted Americans who can't distinguish between a terrorist and a Muslim.

Please remember this when you are talking to your children about the events of the past week.