SNB said:

I didn't write that.
They won't win with such a pace of advancement on the ground.
According to Huilo's statements (Huilo means dildo, a Slavic absinthe, used to refer to the ruler of Muscovites) they planned to take Kyiv and all of Ukraine up to the NATO borders.
But they didn't expect such resistance, now they have to come up with various reasons for retreating from Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, etc.
The economy of Muscovites is collapsing, only China and North Korea (this is especially funny) are saving their asses. Now their last hope is Trump.
Who has the opportunity to end this conflict quickly.
But does not use it.
Undermining trust in the USA as a guarantor of the beautiful Budapest Memorandum.

This is neither bad nor good. It just shows your level of education.
According to all religions, being stupid is not a sin.

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Sean the Nailer said:

OK, so what I hear you saying is, "The British" kidnapped your family, held them in what is now "Canada"; then "The British" released your family (again, in Canada) and many of your ancestors died miserably due to this and the season.

And for this, all Canadians are bad? So tell me, how much have you paid out in the reparations for all the slavery in the world, let alone in the U.S. of A.? Not only that, but have you apologized to the Japanese yet? If not, why not?

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45-90 said:

This is a good productive discussion.

Does a small company expand to meet demand or stay in the comfort zone?

After the nuclear collapse, I started with a small company. The two owners fought over expansion and CNC equipment so much, one sold the company to the one who wanted to expand.
The new owner changed the company name and went right after the expansionist idea.
I was hired to run the New CNC lathe.
Everything went good for a few yrs, then came the layoffs. Working in a mostly empty shop on a new job, the owner came to me and said he had just financed his house to make payroll, and would really appreciate it if I didn't scrap one of these expensive copper blanks.
I assured him I would not.
That almost collapse grew into one of the most successful state of art machining centers in the state.
Huge expansions many new buildings full of CNC equipment and nice new offices.
World wide contracts, and cornered 52% of the world's market in area that I worked in, and started.
Just me and my helper made half of the first million dollar month in the company history.

How did we do it?
Work our asses off, bring new developments into the processes.
We strive to be the best, no one in the world will out work us, no one will be as productive or out think us, we are never satisfied with our excellence, tomorrow is a new day for even more accomplishments.
Be a student of your work, learn, learn, learn, and make a contribution.

The company job, IS the employees job.
Your wife will leave you on day shift as easily as she will on night shift.
Mine left on day shift... so let's get to work.

Hire that working supervisor, a hardass company team leader, a motivator, and extreme leader. The supervisor who will clean your machine sump out, while you check in material for machining, do the dirty job for his helper or fellow machinst...supervisors don't do that, or lend a hand and do part of the other guy's job when he's behind plus yours.
Never laugh at someone's mistake, it cost us all, and now you all are not allowed to have a scrap part all month...gets their attention.
Nothing better in a manufacturing or machining company, than to have people you can count on that always have your back...assemble "that team" like your life depends on it, cause financially it does.

Companies need people who will work.
Whatever it takes...do your part.

So Frank would you volunteer to take a team on the 2nd or 3rd shift and give up the day shift that you worked so hard to be on?
I did, more than a few times, about 15 yrs worth...what ever it takes to build the company.
I trained 22 machinist for this particular job on 7 years before retiring. A lot of them just won't do heavy continous work.
Certain companies have better workers when looking for laid off machinist.
HP machinist are duds ...they are lazy and Woke before Woke was invented.

Son's who's fathers owned small machine shops are good, farm kids who want something else as helpers, some former aerospace, many veterans who have it together, my supervisor was a naval officer, not real likable but did his job, kinda like me I suppose, but might I win ya over eventually. I was always an overachiever, 2nd fastest in the state track meet, but no one cares about 2nd place. Live and learn.

Bartlein as company has decisions to make. Nothing here is easy, if it was everyone else would be doing it.
It's all hard, difficult, and almost impossible.
Always keep the CNCs running they are too expensive just sitting there.
I usually run two at a time, wear them out in 5 yrs. Running 2 10 hr shifts. Making over $2500 per hr minus $1200 for material, wages, overhead.
When I volunteered to night shift other CNCs are open, I run up to 4 CNC mills, at a time voluntary... kinda.
You want production, it's one way to get it.
You have cycle time don't just stand around, grab a cup of coffee and go to work...Do Not Ever run out of coffee.
When I retired, the owner told me, "I'll probably never find another employee who works like you." My answer, " probably not".
I had higher paying offers, but declined them. Loyalty has a price, but helping build a company was priceless.
Like coming across the finish line at a State track meet first instead of second, simply the best....
How much do you want to win?...how hard are "you" willing to work?

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Edsel said:

Bet you wouldn’t say the same thing for scratches on your Porsche

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