More economic woes

[mrs_sweetpeach]

The boss took our fire extinguishers in for their annual physicals today (Boy, does this city ever have strict fire department rules & regulations. It sure wasn't like this when we worked in Troy.) Anyway, while he was there, he got into a conversation with the owner's brother-in-law and was told that Chrysler owes them $1M and that they (the fire extinguisher place) were recently forced to lay off part of their workforce -- for the first time since they were founded in 1949.

I've also taken to counting the number of vacancies in the various strip malls I visit. The one up at the corner where we buy pizza is at about 50% capacity. The big mall by our house is even worse. Two of the "anchor" stores have closed and along the longest side of the open-air 'u' that forms the plaza's footprint, only three stores remain.

Comments

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

Let me see if I understand this correctly. The city requires you to have no fire extinguishers one day a year. Interesting.

[drkcherry.livejournal.com]

Our fire guy comes to us.

[mrs-sweetpeach.livejournal.com]

Our fire extinguisher place would too -- if we were willing to spend the $100 for the truck. Being the cheap folk we are, we take the extinguishers there and pay a whopping $5.

[mrs-sweetpeach.livejournal.com]

Well... no. That part is entirely optional. :-)

I don't know what would happen if the fire inspector decided to pay a visit on the day we took the fire extinguishers in. We'd probably just get yelled at though, then he'd have to come back for a follow-up visit to make sure we'd brought them home.