Firing an employee is every boss’s least favorite part of the job. These days it can also be perilous from a legal standpoint - and occasionally physically threatening as well. Yet, sooner or later almost every employer finds it necessary to carry out this unpleasant duty.
Many business owners think they will sell their business and use those proceeds to retire. Such thoughts can be driven by a desire to escape the stress of managing a business, the hassle of dealing with employees or just getting bored with the whole process. Or maybe you just want to obtain something out of those years of toil you have put in building your business. Possibly you dream of simply playing golf, going fishing and enjoying the good life. But is your business really saleable?
My good friend David Stewart and I recently spent a week in Biloxi helping some folks rebuild their homes from damage sustained during Hurricane Katrina. It may not be page one news anymore (the Mississippi Gulf coast may never have been page one news), but there are still thousands of homes that remain uninhabitable a year and a half later.
While in preparations to pontificate and prognosticate and otherwise wax philosophical about the prospects for the roofing industry in 2007, I find myself too distracted by events of the present.
Who wants a lump of coal? You know the type of leads that I’m talking about. They’re the ones where the homeowner is just shopping around for help with the tiniest of problems. You’re probably scrambling around, like an owner with his head cut off, and here’s this ring from the phone. Could be a huge replacement job that would bring in gobs of revenue, but no, it’s just your average homeowner looking for someone to get their cat off the roof.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration considers electrical safety to be a focused inspection item for all compliance officers. The OSHA Institute mandates that its electrical regulations be included in the construction (Subpart S) and general industry (Subpart K) training modules for the 10-hour and 30-hour Outreach Training Programs. MSHA also mandates electrical safety training in its eight-hour Outreach Training.
Imagine opening your door and finding a fully licensed, well-spoken, sales-minded roofing sales professional, job application in hand, eager to make life easy for you. Or perhaps you’ll discover a personable customer service expert who doubles as an accounting wizard and just happens to be looking for a job.
The most visible of all roof-related problems is moisture intrusion into the facility -- i.e., the roof leak. Roof leaks do not necessarily indicate total roof system failure. They indicate that there is a failure point within the system. That failure point must be corrected prior to extensive damage to the roof as a system. The extent of the damage to the components of the system caused by the leak will have a greater bearing on the overall system failure.
Pseudo-holidays such as Columbus Day and Presidents Day give respite to those of us who live in traffic-clogged metropolitan areas. Millions of motorists experience the giddy feeling of doing the speed limit to and from work for a change.
The successful construction of a low-slope roof system requires adherence to proper application methods. A roofing contractor can enhance the probability of success by administering assurance methods that can be followed by project managers (foremen, superintendents, etc.). There are certain criteria that are required for the proper application of all low-slope roof systems. Best practice methods can be employed to ensure that these application methods are followed on a continual basis throughout the course of the project.
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