Someone I know said their business will be inspected in the next week to see if they are indeed essential and that this was at Whitmer’s direction.
Posted Mar 27, 2020, 1:56 PM UTC
I saw an article on mlive a couple of days ago about golf courses trying to determine if they were essential or not. I was just like "... how?"
I kinda get the argument, but yeah the more closed the better.
Can you share, because I do not get the argument at all.
I mean, it probably could be as safe as a park. Do no carts, e pay only, don’t pull pins. I’m not saying I agree at all and yeah there probably are too many exemptions.
That's an argument that the grounds could be left open, I guess, but definitely not that they are essential. I know that local to me, there have been golfers out on the course, with their own clubs, but definitely not social distancing.
Just sucks that some of us are being responsible business owners and staying home hurting and sacrificing our business growth.... yet others ignore the rule which is just going to drag this out longer. So selfish!!
Thank you for doing your part no matter the cost. There are a lot of people who truly value your sacrifice.
Myself and others are keeping track of which businesses are doing the right thing and will remember that when all of this has passed.
Honestly, anyone who expected this to be overnight is being foolish. You could explicitly tell people only food and utilities, and explicitly forbid restaurants and you'll see AirTime and Chuck e' Cheese staying open because they have a food area in there.
To be clear, I'm sure Airtime and Chuck e' Cheese have closed, but you guys get the idea. There are plenty of business owners who just fucking don't listen.
More complicated are places like Home Depot which really do need to be open because people are going to need to fix things.
https://airtimetrampoline.com/safety/
We are happy to share that AirTime Parks are welcoming guests as usual
FFS...
https://www.chuckecheese.com/update-regarding-coronavirus Closed, though you can order pizza for carry out and delivery.
Wow just wow
Wow! That's positive news. Thank you
Side note, Tru Green is a fucking joke. You can do a better job yourself. Just buy a rotary spreader and a bag of granular fertilizer every few months (4 times a year). Follow the directions, and you'll have the same or better results for a fraction of the price.
But to stay on topic, they are in no way essential. Fucking close.
We had Tru Green after they bought the company we HAD been using.
Our yard looked the ABSOLUTE WORST it ever looked after they started "treating it". It literally was 90+% dead, full of weeds, etc.
We called them back a couple of times on "service calls" and they claimed they put down new fertilizer and weed control..
Went out to check afterward, and there was NOTHING put down.
We since went with a small, two person company out of Dryden and our yard looks 1000X better than the Tru Green hacks.
They are definately not essential. But if i can pay to get rid of effort to make the yard look good when not in plague times, I'm gonna pay. If my yard was any bigger id be paying some company to mow and stuff i would.
I work at a shop that makes injection molds. Our owner said we're essential because we are going to make respirator and ventilator parts.
Now I've seen some data come through for them to quote, but as far as I know no work has begun, and in the meantime I'm still designing molds for completely non-essential automotive parts (cars coming out 1-2 years from now, not anything needed now). Luckily I'm doing my job from home, but my company builds the molds too, so there are plenty of people still there to build the molds I'm designing for non-essential use.
It's not safe.
I own a shop that makes plastic injection molds. My customers make part for medical, military etc. We were deemed essential by the us military and we had to make sure our supply chains knows they are essential as well. This includes suppliers for steel such as P-20, S-7, 0-1, mild. Aluminum 6061. Drills, cutters. Oil such as way, spindle, and coolant and EDM. Grinding supplies such as cutoff, grinding, diamond wheels. Graphite and copper for electrodes. Abrasive stones. We also need services such as welders with mold experience that have micro weld capabilities. 80% of the plastic injection shops have sent us letters they have received from the government deeming them essential for making military and medical supplies.
Thank you for some inside perspective. Hopefully the same happened at my shop. It's easy to assume the worst about your company at a time like this.
People just don't understand what it takes to do all of this. I had to repair a mold for M50 gas masks and one for the screen for one type of filter canister this week. Today we started a repair on a mold for the ventilators needed by the hospitals for flash. Had to go to the welder. Tomorrow we have to spot it. It's a hot job so I will be working all weekend. The supply chain is a massive web of essential businesses. If we stop these services then no medical supplies are made.
We have put our employees in two groups. They rotate every two weeks in case someone gets the virus. This way we can send one group home for quarantine if someone gets sick and hopefully group 2 stays safe. But it means we are busting ass.
Frimo? Is that you?
Nah, but I assume this is the case with every single shop like mine out there. I sub to r/Machinists and everyone there seems to be in the same boat as me.
I will only give my business to the non essential places that shut down during this.
I will never give a dollar to the ones that remain open.
Shut 'em all down. JoAnne's, golf courses, factories, car washes, TruGreen, Barnes & Nobles, beauty supply, shoe repair, all of it that like that non essential still open in Metro Detroit. People need to stay home and not spread this deadly disease.
Go get em Whitmer!!!!
I’m glad you mentioned TruGreen. I saw them spraying in my neighborhood this week and couldn’t imagine that was “essential.”
TruGreen never shuts down lol. I’ve cancelled them twice and they keep coming and billing me lolol
Sounds like the Sirius radio of lawn care lmao.
They will drive by after you try to cancel & keep going if you're home. Then come back when you're gone to spray & bill you.
Lmao I needed that!
Do they have some kind of agricultural license? I think those folks are considered essential.
But *to be fair* to lawn services, they usually do not involve a ton of customer or even employee interaction.
I would love to see them staying home, especially the corporate ones that are not going to go belly-up the way local small business landscapers might.
Oh, reminds me I need to go turn on my outside water and check that my irrigation is still functional.
For what its worth, Mister Car Wash on the west side of the state is shut down at all of their 14+ locations
Not just Detroit but the rest of the state too.
Maybe the factories could still be open if they maybe could make essential equipment to help health or the public.