Whenever someone new joins our industry I usually tell them
that they are here for life. For
whatever reason, glass and glazing has an amazing pull to keep folks around,
albeit in different jobs for different companies, but still same industry. Now
there’s been some exceptions, incredible people like Tony Clark and Scott Surma
were able to pull themselves away from this world and do extremely well in other industry realms. But in the end,
the pull here is real. Why do I bring
this up? Because an excellent blog postby Glass Magazine’s Bethany Stough was dead on.
If you are not in this industry you care about the new or remodeled
buildings differently. Basically when
you are an outsider and that new store or doctor’s office opens, you are happy
about the new options or the convenience.
But when you are in this industry, you are focused on what glass did
they choose, what metal system, who supplied it, who sourced it and more. Only those of us in the industry can
understand the feeling and NEED to bend down in front of total strangers to
look for a logo on tempered glass or a spacer marking on an insulated
storefront. So Bethany, great piece,
welcome back (and CONGRATS!) and I’m pretty sure you are here in this industry for the long
run!
Elsewhere…
-- The industry lost an absolute icon last week with the
passing of Ed Berkowitz. Ed was a great
person, class act and excellent businessman.
His impact on the industry will always be felt because he positively
influenced so many and his son Arthur has carried on the class approach that
the Berkowitz family has had for generations.
I count myself as fortunate to have been able to chat with Ed on a
couple of occasions. He truly will be
missed. Continued thoughts and
condolences to his family, friends, and company.
-- Pretty brutal week on the stock market and fears of a
recession are out there. The initial
feeling for many is this is part of a “correction” and things will settle. If you attended the Glazing Executive Forum
at GlassBuild America this past fall you would’ve heard economist Jeff Dietrich
talk about the coming corrective actions to the market. So at this point I am going with that… and I
am making every effort to not look at the stock market numbers.
-- At this point I am assuming no one in this industry won
Powerball? For my fellow road warriors I
felt like I had a moment almost as good as winning Powerball this week. I had an empty seat next to me on a long
flight. That never happens…
-- And speaking of flying, I was not aware that there’s now a
new “class” of seats being sold. Welcome
to “last class” which will be a step below coach and really no frills. So the experience of flight is already
difficult, tiring, frustrating etc… and now we’ve somehow found a way to make
it worse. Yikes. However I did find one article that made some
points about how this could be a good thing… so there’s that.
LINKS of the WEEK
Did you know Powerball once had a rigging scandal?
Love this list of banned words for 2016. I need to check and make sure I don’t use
these….
I am NOT a fan of cruises.. but this is good news for those
of you who are…
VIDEO of the WEEK
The great David Bowie passed away this week. Conan O’Brien did a fantastic and funny
tribute to him. What a cool sense of
humor Bowie had as well.
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