#9797077 - 04/29/20 07:39 AM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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furball
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We have one of these as the wife learned about it, so have been using it the past ... 2 mths or so. https://www.phonesoap.com/
Thanks for tip re: Germ Guardian ... we have 3 humidifiers and ... it's been a bitch to clean them. Maybe I'll pick up one of those.
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#9797111 - 04/29/20 08:50 AM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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What problem are you trying to solve?
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#9797611 - 04/29/20 04:17 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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Boss told us today that the company may be letting a skeleton staff back in the office this summer. Things like one person per elevator means there really can't be too many people in there at once. They may open the doors a little wider in the fall, but it's quite possible most of us will be at home until next year.
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#9797834 - 04/29/20 08:48 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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Screamin Type ARGH!
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for us i am a bit surpried how tight things are getting, for how 'well' things usually are for our Co.
-raises that were due in May now cut (no surprises, fair enough)
-xmas bonus due for july in question (prob will be cut, but maybe not as it's based on last years results so waiting on this)
-pay cuts across the board, 2% for me then it goes 3.5 and 5 up the ladder, ouch, but it's temporary...no end date in sight yet
-we're going into wk 3 of forced 1-day off work, unpaid, can't use vacay to get paid, again TBD
-they have begun packaging out senior staff already, 1-3 a week it seems
-POSSIBLE future cut measures to be taken tbd......
factory guys heading back May 11th so that's good for them. prob very slow production with the safety measure in place, not to mention a shitton of unsold cars both at dealers and at autoports/compounds across canada.
otherwise, can't complain. working from home is working out ok though. hard as fuck with 2 lil guys running amok but we're making it work.
been filling in/assistin with our CR dept's lately given the insane backlog too lol.
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#9797877 - 04/29/20 10:04 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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Screamin Type ARGH!
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so you're saying that if i want to get into a CTR now is the time to do it? lol
ironically last i heard was almost all of the 2020's were already pre-sold lol. but heck i'm sure many orders have been cancelled given this covid19 shit so yeah, prob some deals to be had in the coming months...
dunno how many of the 2021 yellow special ed. ones we're getting but they'll make it here eventually.
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#9798381 - 04/30/20 01:39 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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furball
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I've been thinking about the accrued vacation everyone is shoring up, as there's nowhere to go ...
The 'forced-use' of vacation, 4-day work-weeks, makes sense as a way to burn that time, as well as the no-bonus 
So far I haven't heard anything about the cancellation/reduction of our $2k/yr/pp education budget...
At a crown corp I used to work at .... they mandated a 20% reduction in fees that contractors can charge, so that kinda sucks.
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#9798834 - 04/30/20 09:19 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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i was able to sell 10 days back and throw that $$ into RRSP. Parked it all in $$$ market. I am not sure how low the market will go. Will throw it back in the market once there looks to be an upswing. Don't want $$$ in money market if there is going to be a depression or inflation from the world printing money.
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#9799039 - 05/01/20 09:37 AM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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anyone else notice the abundance of "this is all a hoax, we need to open back up again" posts on FB groups etc?
Man its like some people are clueless as to whats going on.
Yep! However, Im extremely thankful we do not have a leader who behaves like an Orangutan.
I noticed that it's the rich that's stirring the shit in the pot to get people back work?
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#9799202 - 05/01/20 12:18 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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Since the lock down and I've been working from home on a daily basis. I. just. can't. stop. snacking. It's hard to say no to the wife's homemade eastern european pastries. 
Ironically I've been eating less since I've been working from home.
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#9799307 - 05/01/20 01:20 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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Seems like a very odd mix.
Some chains are doing take out only others are permanently closed even though they did/can do take out. I don't understand it.
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#9799506 - 05/01/20 04:13 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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Wow traffic almost back to normal today, jfc. Everyone driving around, OPEN ER UP
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#9799636 - 05/01/20 06:39 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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What are restaurants looking like in GTA now? You still seeing a lot of them shifting to take out/pick up? I follow the big independent guys, but I'm more curious as to what your neighbourhood places are doing. What about the chains?
i was at a local neighborhood Pho place. They had 4 ppl in there waiting. Pho was ringing off the hook but probably no where close to what their revenue would be if they had dine in.
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#9799827 - 05/02/20 04:51 AM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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They can't, I keep talking to my guys that run commercial Class A + some independent strip malls. From the restaurants at the class A 50%+ are gone, not coming back and closed for good. The strip malls are fairing better, I think this is because it's usually independent smaller landlords/cheaper rent/both scrappy entrepreneur types (not franchise owners) and are working together.
Crazy to hear you are down to 5%, damn. I remember visiting one of your locations in Barrie, it was a main strip (can't remember the name of the street), place was popping and food was great but you were entirely setup for dine in. Are the government programs going to be enough to get you through?
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#9799959 - 05/02/20 12:27 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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#9800281 - 05/02/20 10:48 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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anyone else notice the abundance of "this is all a hoax, we need to open back up again" posts on FB groups etc?
Man its like some people are clueless as to whats going on. Yep! However, Im extremely thankful we do not have a leader who behaves like an Orangutan. I noticed that it's the rich that's stirring the shit in the pot to get people back work?
The people I’ve seen do it are not rich nor intelligent
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#9800290 - 05/02/20 10:51 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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We have 2 of our 4 locations open from 4-8 Tuesday to Saturday, and we're only doing about 5% of the revenue we would normally be doing. No location running profitably. Our phones were busy from 330-730.
I can't imagine these big boxes in plazas in the GTA can keep paying these rents for that long. Mom and pop shops should make it, they'll just suffer their own pay in the short run.
There is a subsidy but also some just won’t pay. Gap already said it is stopping paying rent as an example. As mentioned above CF said about 25% of their base have paid. It’s not always about can’t pay it’s also a about won’t pay since it is not open / delivering returns
Just think of a big company like Best Buy if they said nah we aren’t paying this month what would a property company do? It would be short sighted to take action and the good ones will work with companies. It’s not like they would kick Best Buy out and then have it empty and find another massive retailer in that location (there isn’t many) that could fit all of the clauses and afford it to replace the BB space.
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#9800292 - 05/02/20 10:58 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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JEFFOS
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We have one of these as the wife learned about it, so have been using it the past ... 2 mths or so. https://www.phonesoap.com/Thanks for tip re: Germ Guardian ... we have 3 humidifiers and ... it's been a bitch to clean them. Maybe I'll pick up one of those.
I have 2 phone soaps as well. Neat product
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#9800294 - 05/02/20 11:00 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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JEFFOS
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What are restaurants looking like in GTA now? You still seeing a lot of them shifting to take out/pick up? I follow the big independent guys, but I'm more curious as to what your neighbourhood places are doing. What about the chains?
A majority have pivoted to delivery but are still getting smashed. For some odd reason Krispy Kreme is off the hook busy but for the most part it’s very small numbers for a majority of these businesses
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#9800636 - 05/03/20 04:39 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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furball
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Henry's filed for Chap 11
A friend who has a breakfast joint in Markham isn't fairing well ... about a year in, and it's a franchise, which JUST so happen to be CASH ONLY .... I think they've finally pivoted to a payment processor, but in the meantime all the cash is washed in a soapy bucket of water.
Plexiglass panels just installed ... Not sure if it'll survive.
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#9800665 - 05/03/20 05:41 PM
Re: Chinese New year corona special $4.
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Sucks about Henry's, but I am not sure if there is any brick and mortar business that won't follow suit, at least they are doing it early on and not wasting time trying to keep shit afloat when there is no point. If they were able to do this quick chances are these stores were already on the chopping block for some time now. I think it's a good opportunity for a lot of these retailers to cut out the low performing profit centers via restructuring and double down on their profitable locations and online. It allows many to get out of long term leases/severance liabilities at a reduced cost if they do it now under these conditions than trying to maintain status quo.
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