Alright, let me explain what's going on.
The guys at the shop are doing what they can to keep the place running, however at this time, we are not accepting ANY new customers or shipments until further notice. I'm available at least one or two days out of the week at present. I've been using my available time to make the OKC location autonomous from what is going on here in WI.
People on the docket to get paid will be paid in order of precedent. It is going to take some time to do this.
The reason for this is simple enough. I've been sick off and on for the last several months. It has finally reached a tipping point and gotten significantly worse. I've hid this fact out of pride, my own **** fault. In the process of this mess, the medications I need to live have gone from being paid for and issued to me at the VA to not, with no alternative except to be written a scrip and filling it on my own for $1318 every 30 days on top of the meds I need already that aren't covered. This new-ish development has thrown everything into a tailspin. It's not just the medication but my forced time away. Before you go wondering what can be done about it, I've so far written my congressmen and my wife's insurance has stepped up to at least pay what would otherwise be the generic version copay. I cannot take the alternative generic because I react to it, thus I'm stuck with a expensive medication.
Right now, as of today I have what is believed to be cancer of the cecum and colon. I've had issues with my GI for many years as a result of chemical exposure in drinking water while deployed. The vast majority of my friends who I deployed with are also sick and some are dead. Today we are looking at options, for me it's dark times, no real options that mean I can continue at the pace I have until July. A few months ago I had a severe immune response to a switch in my medications. Today this has been corrected but blood tests and eventually scans and biopsies have found something else entirely. We had concerns as my weight has gone down almost 45 lbs and have had some blood in stool much more regularly than previous.
I haven't run away with product or money, we are just drained of revolving cash flow from my continued absence. The plan is to shrink the operation back down to a much smaller overhead cost, which means selling equipment, flushing inventory and probably another move. This is already underway. We expect to knock 12-15k per month of overhead off the monthlies and begin disbursements as soon as we can. There will be NO scrap side intake during this time except in Oklahoma City.
I regret not informing everyone sooner, unfortunately I didn't get the complete prognosis until 9 am this morning. I feel like this is happening to someone else and not me even now. I tried to ignore it far too long now I have to deal with this so I can survive it. Also, the VA itself is a large brick and steel building, if you try texting me I might not receive anything at all for hours or days at a time. I spend a great deal of my time waiting to see doctors and consult with people who I hope are smarter than most at dealing with this stuff, it's not that I am trying to ignore anyone, I'm having to learn to deal with my physical failures right now. I am fully aware that pride can ruin the best of us so here I am telling you all I've made too many mistakes and I hope to get the chance to rectify them as soon as possible.
In the future, please understand, until I am healthy enough to continue operations we must proceed case by case. Also I am not in control of facebook at all, the guys were trying to find ways to increase productivity and I can't fault that at all. It has been halted until we decide company future. Theyve gone as far as they can with my continued absenses, it's not their fault, it's mine.
So to recap, yes we are still going to do payments, we are shrinking down the operation so that is more sustainable for the people I am keeping on board. At the same time, no scrap intake right now, probably not until I am up to being at the shop on a daily basis once again, which has no definite plan. I will update everyone right here, in this thread as we make progress at the shop AND with medical updates. I'd appreciate ending the speculation, not much to say right now other than I don't have the best insurances and barely have the means to pay for my medical co-pays as well having a VA system that is next to useless at treating something when time is of the essence.
Just pray for my family please. I'll make the rest of this right in due time.