Tag Archives: layoffs

Today's economy has led to all sorts of tough decisions with seemingly no good alternatives.

If much of our experienced workforce has found employment in other fields, what chance do we have of attracting them back to the boating business when we need them?

Mercury's will-it-or-won't-it decision to move jobs to Oklahoma is starting to resemble the summer saga of another Wisconsin institution: Brett Favre.

I was driving in the car yesterday when a story came on National Public Radio about Columbia, Ky.-based houseboat builder Majestic Yachts. It's no surprise in this economy that it was a sad story, at least at first. The article began by profiling Faye Womack, a former employee. She was part of a 27-person boat production team until orders stopped ...

Two weeks ago in a martial arts class, I accidentally hurt one of my best friends. Beyond the pain of the injury, it had real potential consequences for her. She was only a few weeks away from one of the many exams required to get her black belt, something she has been working toward for more than three years. I ...

My four-year-old son broke his arm playing in the yard last week. While he was incredibly brave in the hours and days that followed, it has changed him. As the pain has receded, he's begun thinking out loud about how he'll avoid breaking something else, as have his father and I. We want him to go back to having fun ...