Everything is back ordered....tradie life, dear diary

05-18-2022, 08:28 PM

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Everything is back ordered....tradie life, dear diary

I work maintaining and fixing soda fountains and related stuff....and half of my parts are on back order. This crap isn't uncommon, but it's getting insane now. The most basic parts have been out for weeks. It's been bad for months, but now it's getting really bad. Our weekly meeting brought up how to locally source from other techs LMAO, brb let's cannibalize each other's trucks....when none of us have jack sheit.

Fuk me it's getting stressful. Should have jumped ship when I had the chance.

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05-19-2022, 04:59 AM

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Same for me, commercial refrigeration owner. Things I used to get next day now have lead times two three weeks. If not two three months

05-19-2022, 05:05 AM

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I repair and rebuild Caterpillar engines, part shortages are affecting us too. We end up building engines halfway, then have to work on testing down another one.

05-19-2022, 05:07 AM

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Biden boom bros

05-19-2022, 05:12 AM

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China has some Covid issues now and parts are made in China mostly, buckle up.

There is an unspoken thing, we are iron brothers and sisters, we are to support each other and...It is our duty to support our brothers and sisters in the iron game!

05-19-2022, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted By AlwaysFocus⏩

Biden boom bros

The biden ka-boom. We are seeing it in the construction industry as well. Like Cat brah said above, parts for machines, pipe fittings, ductile iron pipe, etc. 10+ months out and that’s just a guess. On top of it, our dumbass in chief is helping the fuel cost rise and nothing gets built, delivered, minerals mined, etc without diesel fuel. **** is gonna come to a screeching halt soon it feels like and we will be super fukked

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05-19-2022, 06:09 AM

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C'mon guys. Biden's trying to get a chip plant up and running in Ohio...this should help.

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05-19-2022, 06:10 AM

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Explains why one of our soda machines in the office has been out of order for 4 months now

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05-19-2022, 06:16 AM

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Stuff that took a week to get now takes 3 months, followed by a call at the third month saying gives us two more weeks. Most customers get it because they are in the mix, but some don't get it and its a hard sell to tell someone its going to be 4 months for a basic part.

All because China is going "covid zero"? After everything we all know as a world about this thing, 2.5 years in and they are shooting for "zero cases" lmaowut? They are trolling us. They country with the longest exposure to this thing has the worst policy 2.5 years later...hard to believe. Somethingaintright.gif.

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05-19-2022, 06:18 AM

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05-19-2022, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted By EDcellent⏩

I repair and rebuild Caterpillar engines, part shortages are affecting us too. We end up building engines halfway, then have to work on testing down another one.

Build back better!

05-19-2022, 06:26 AM

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I signed the order for a specialty fleet vehicle in April of ‘21 but it has yet to be delivered. Sadly, I expect this to worsen.

Originally Posted By naich⏩

Stuff that took a week to get now takes 3 months, followed by a call at the third month saying gives us two more weeks. Most customers get it because they are in the mix, but some don't get it and its a hard sell to tell someone its going to be 4 months for a basic part.

All because China is going "covid zero"? After everything we all know as a world about this thing, 2.5 years in and they are shooting for "zero cases" lmaowut? They are trolling us. They country with the longest exposure to this thing has the worst policy 2.5 years later...hard to believe. Somethingaintright.gif.

They’re exploiting our dependency to further wreck us and Xiden isn’t going to break hard on the CCP.

05-19-2022, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted By userCMNWN6Z4V3S⏩

Same for me, commercial refrigeration owner. Things I used to get next day now have lead times two three weeks. If not two three months

know a guy who services AC units.
he doesn't even bother trying to get parts from manufacturers and just goes to the local parts place and buys whatever part has the same specs and makes it fit.

05-19-2022, 06:39 AM

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tradie herder checking in

we have stuff thats currently a 50-60 week leadtime.

its pretty funny when a customer says/demands they need their project done by september and we tell them we wont even have all the materials until july of next year

MinisterOfLust: scooterbrah and Mcfreoko are the two worst posters here.

05-19-2022, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted By scooterbrah⏩

tradie herder checking in

we have stuff thats currently a 50-60 week leadtime.

its pretty funny when a customer says/demands they need their project done by september and we tell them we wont even have all the materials until july of next year

I can relate. A lot of projects and products that I would normally be quoting 8-12 weeks out are now early next year. People freak and say they will have to go with someone else only to call back in a few days after finding out that everyone is having the same issues. Now I am having to call customers to tell them that the freight I quoted 4 months ago has gone up $900.00 (or whatever) and they have to pay the difference before I can ship their order. Needless to say I get yelled at a lot. LOL

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