12th January 2022
We sold the heavy dresser this morning. The couple arrived just after 1.00pm and there was no quibble. We just loaded it on their truck and the money was handed over. It turned out to be a fine piece, although it was not my best top, they loved it and that was all that mattered.
They also seemed interested in other pieces that we were working on, so that sets the priorities.
This spurred our activity with Kelli sanding and preparing a small drawer unit ready for painting.
I left mid afternoon for my meeting with Tom Verkaik in Zeeland.
This is the first person from I have talked to from HM so it was good to catch up.
Covid has had quite an effect on the day to day business with material scarcity and some companies going out of business. Being as he leads the product engineering group there is plenty of work testing parts from new suppliers.
Most of his team work from home but he feels detached from the rest of the organisation.
The MillerKnoll integration has caused disruption as well, many staff have been integrated, causing confusion.
Tom feels that the company is struggling to define what it’s future direction is, and the leadership is not popular at the moment.
He couldn’t tell me if any of the people I knew still worked there, I suspect many were offered attractive packages to retire early, I guess Tom might be waiting for the same inducement.
Another Lifetime to go 