Thanks for the kind words. Just to be clear, I'm not planning on quitting any time soon. I'm too stubborn for that.
I've just reached the point where I've passed beyond "this kinda sucks" into the level of frustration I described in my first post. Usually, a good night's sleep or a weekend away will fix it at least until I have to deal with this again. A big part of the frustration for me is the inability to "fix the problem and move on". I hate having to deal with the same problem over and over. And this has been over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over with no end in sight. I also really want to get back to making new interesting (at least to me) products that hopefully y'all will like. Hasn't been a lot of that this year. Have 2 or 3 new boards for the rackinjector in progress that I had hoped to be done for WISPAPALOOZA, but that ain't gonna happen at this point. Maybe WISPAMERICA in the spring. On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 9:19 PM Sean Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sorry to hear this Forest. > > I wanted to send you some words of encouragement though. Your products > and the solutions they provide are EXTREMELY valuable to not just my > business but our whole industry. There is a slew of stuff your products > accomplish for us that would honestly take a fraken-monster to replicate. > > I know it's tough going and there's not really an end in sight with these > supply chain issues, not just for you but for America and the world. > Unfortunately we've off-shored most of our manufacturing and that won't > come back home quick. With all the weird things we've had to deal with the > last couple years, I have to keep telling myself "This too shall pass". > > *But please please please keep doing what you are doing!!!! You are a > true hero of the WISP world who makes products we all need!!!* > > Please let us know if there's any way we can help. > > *Sean Heskett* > > *ZIRKEL * > *Internet • WiFi • Phone • TV* > 970-871-8500 x100 - Office > Website <http://www.zirkel.us/> | Facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/ZIRKEL/> > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 4:06 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm getting really tired of dealing with supply chain issues. Like >> burnt out, don't want to do this anymore, I've had enough tired. >> >> Just the things I'm dealing with today: >> >> The last few days, all of my spare time has been related to reviewing >> options to replace a part which has become unobtainum. Like as in, >> manufacturer has moved from a long lead time to 'don't bother asking'. >> This seems to happen on a recurring basis now (with different parts) - >> versus pre-covid it was maybe once every year or two (since I'm careful to >> select parts to avoid this issue). I've had one part I've had to switch >> vendors on like 6 times now. >> >> And it's not just parts, my enclosure manufacturer for the rackinjectors >> sent us this gem today: >> >> "We had the enclosures ready for pickup since last week, but our road is >> under maintenance and the whole street got ripped off. My forklift is not >> able to get off from our driveway to the road because the step is very >> steep. I heard the city will start paving tomorrow. Hopefully we can load >> the pallet by Wednesday." >> >> Can we please go back to the way it was in 2019 sometime soon? >> >> -- >> - Forrest >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- - Forrest
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