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MANative

(4,112 posts) Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:00 AM Jan 2019

The shut down (lock-out) has started to hurt our business

We manufacture ladies garments. Shipping containers are being held up, so we can't get product in. We're having issues in our Distribution center which will shortly start to spill over into Production.

If it's not hurting you or your business yet, just wait a few more days for the trickle effect to make itself plainly known.

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The shut down (lock-out) has started to hurt our business (Original Post) MANative Jan 2019 OP

The trickle wont matter until Chipper Chat Jan 2019 #1

Already affecting me. LunaSea Jan 2019 #2

Same here. NAVFAC owes us and the shutdown is slowing everything. FSogol Jan 2019 #4

Sounds like us. Stinky The Clown Jan 2019 #7

We also have a lease that doesn't charge us rent in January and Feb so that helps too. FSogol Jan 2019 #8

NASA is also a client of mine unc70 Jan 2019 #5

Time for owners of such companies to demand an end to it and pass a clean bill to reopen. Freethinker65 Jan 2019 #3

Moscow Mitch does not care Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #6

Chipper Chat

(9,672 posts)

1. The trickle wont matter until

Reply to MANative (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:05 AM

Jan 2019

Joe sixpack starts finding it difficult to maintain his supply of cigs beer and McDonald French fries.

LunaSea

(2,892 posts)

2. Already affecting me.

Reply to MANative (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:07 AM

Jan 2019

My last project was for a NASA contractor. They can't pay my invoice until they collect on theirs.

FSogol

(45,446 posts)

4. Same here. NAVFAC owes us and the shutdown is slowing everything.

Reply to LunaSea (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:11 AM

Jan 2019

Luckily, the Federal govt is only one of many types of clients for us.

Here in DC, the DC metro is losing $400K per day and restaurants only have a fraction of the customers than before the shutdown.

Stinky The Clown

(67,761 posts)

7. Sounds like us.

Reply to FSogol (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:42 PM

Jan 2019

Lots of federal clients but, fortunately, lots of non federal clients, too. Our work on federal contracts has slowed to a crawl since there is no one at the client organizations working.

We had hoped to hire another person but that's on hold for now.

FSogol

(45,446 posts)

8. We also have a lease that doesn't charge us rent in January and Feb so that helps too.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:48 PM

Jan 2019

There are tons of companies like us that are on the verge of being hurt. The shutdown needs to end and the GOP charged with malpractice of governing.

unc70

(6,109 posts)

5. NASA is also a client of mine

Reply to LunaSea (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 12:40 PM

Jan 2019

No payments to my little company until ...

Plus large businesses seem to have stopped paying their invoices. Not a single payment to us from anyone since the shutdown. We have experienced complete suspension of A/R in the past: during Gulf War I & II, after 9/11, and late 2008. I am sure this is now becoming widespread.

Cash Flow becomes a big problem when it quits flowing.

Freethinker65

(9,999 posts)

3. Time for owners of such companies to demand an end to it and pass a clean bill to reopen.

Reply to MANative (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:07 AM

Jan 2019

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,253 posts)

6. Moscow Mitch does not care

Reply to MANative (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:23 PM

Jan 2019

McConnell only cares about Russian oligarchs, like Deripaska, who will feed him power and money.

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