I'm curious, how has the last year been for everyone in the industry?
I work in an EXTREMELY bike-heavy city and we have had two consecutive years in the red. Our summers are okay, but for the rest of the year we are pretty much scraping by on 2-3 large services (simple tunes) a week. When I started 4 years ago we were doing 4-5 large services a DAY. Today was the 4th day in the last week where we had genuinely nothing to do, not even floor bike builds. I mopped the shop floor tonight for god's sake.
Is everyone feeling the hurt? QBP is doing layoffs, my company laid off hundreds, today our manager told us we should be worried about the future of the shop. Is this the case across the field?