Do we still need more time to lash out, point fingers, riticual and poke fun at? Have you made your point yet? Can we do any better or cause any more harm? Have we stirred the pot enough? Is our anger soothed? Have we accomplished our goal?

It kind of makes me sick seeing all the BB posts, all the hurt, all the hate all the misery in our industry.

I really believe that these post including yellowstone do nothing to make our industry better. Even if everything everyone is saying is true how has this helped anything by airing our dirty laundry.

BB love them or hate them we are a family and we need to start to work together.

I dont know what the answer is but I hate looking at my own web page and see all the people I care about so upset and hurt and lashing out.

I mean am I wrong here? Is this fun for anyone? Let me know your thoughts.

Unless someone has something more to say what do you guys think about taking off the stickies so the post drill down and dont stay on the top?

I hope so ,if nothing else these guys, from to operators to upper management are just trying to feed thier kids just like us.  I hope they make it simply because I would hate to see even more people unemployed.  Thats the last thing we need right now.  Who cares who did what?  Just because some folks made bad business decisions it dont make them bad people.  People and businesses go out of business everyday.  Remember it is always better to have tried and failed, than to have never tried.  Think of all the great jobs these people have provided for many years to families. 

I have to be honest Todd, as a DEVOTED BBCP team member who visits this site several times a day, I haven't really followed the posts on this subject for quite a while now. It's just to nasty and hurtfull... I know I got "sucked in" to the nastiness with my2cents last week (I'm sorry Brother).

Here in the greater Seattle area we have 4 major players in the pumping industry. I have known some of the owners of these companies for over 23 years and not once have I ever wished for any of them to fail because I know what the owners, operators, mechanics, dispatchers, salesmen and their FAMILY'S have gone through.

When is enough, enough? Now... as Secret Squirrel put it "GALEED".

Have a great time at WOC

Big T

AMEN!!!   Ive' said the same thing many times already.  I'm here to enjoy and learn, not to cause hate and discontent on an industry that i love so much.  Let's get on with doing the right thing.  Learning.

I don't think much more can be gained out of carrying on until the next stage in the Ch11 comes up in 3 weeks or so....

Let it drill down and it can be brought up agin to keep people in the loop.  The court documents say a lot.

YES SIR,

Let it lie.

The competition in the pumping industry has become increasingly toxic. It has given rise to envy and jealousy. It has become dark when individuals are (accused of)  cheating in order to come out ahead;  It has poisoned the soul when “winners” and “losers” have become labels of worth and identity. And the real battle to enhance the industry itself has become lost.

Irregardless of how you interpret the current circumstances of the economy and in particular the pumping industry participants, there is one lesson whose premise repeats over and over again.  It is the lesson we all learned as young children playing games such as monopoly .  At the end of the game, all of the pieces go back in the box. 100% of the pieces go in the box.  

You can not beat the house.  We are all playing our own game of life on a giant board called a calendar. Time will always run out, so it would be a good thing to live a life that delights your Creator. That way when all the pieces go back in the box and when you leave this life you will leave achieving the only victory that matters.  

Todd, it's RIDICULE, not RITICUAL...hahahahahahaha had to dude. try to lighten it up a little bit...;~)

Well put phoenix. I think we all need a little more humble pie. Granted somewhere along the line somebody made some mistakes, but some of the things that have been said do no-one any good. They reflect more on the nature of the one saying it than about who it's directed at. An old proverb comes to mind "It's better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." I agree with letting the posts scroll an down.

Well ive been out out of concrete pumping since pumpco and got into maintaining fire trucks its realy sad to see all this hate from operators towards concrete pumping company's that are just trying to survive and convince the banks things will get better sure we all wish it was like the old days mechanics like me and operators could name there own salary and were sought after bye other companys looking to get ready trained staff even with there faults sorry those days are gone guy's  its not the pumpco.s or bb or any other pumping company.s fault things are bad its the world economy and to survive in any catastrofy people must adapt we have to lower our personal standard for what we need to earn and work harder to prove what we do is the best not just today  but every day that way your company might get the next job because you were the best at the best cost so do your best guys and i wish you all well still come on here to check whats going where my heart is  good luck to all you and to the company.s that are able to keep the wolves from the door

Yes Todd it may come across as immature bashing, hateful, wishing bad things on someone, etc, etc, blah blah blah. 

I have not spoken to a single person related to this industry that wishes bad things to happen to all of Brundage Bone.  However, there are a few instances where that is not the case.  You know as well as I do that they have pushed their way around and bullied people, (even you for that matter) for years.  They have spun their web of lies and intimidation for as long as I can remember.  This is the reason some people have spoken up like they have and have the dislike for certain people in the organization. 

I have worked with some really fine people at BB and some that I wouldn't piss on to put the fire out.  Looks to me like the Ship of Fools has finally run aground.  Just too bad it hurt the good guys also.

Sure would be nice if all this junk were taken off this site come on Todd you got the power unplug it.

I second that Big Ed..............