Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[Nate Higgs]

This is all Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's fault.

ScoMo says "hey maybe we should have some kind of investigation into the origins of the kungflu?"

China gets butthurt and starts slamming Australia with trade sanctions including banning coal imports from the country.

China starts experiencing energy shortages, due to lack of coal, can't produce much of the shit that the rest of the world needs to function.

China has to choose between bending the knee to Australia or their house of cards collapses.

Australia is a superpower now.

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[Phalanges Mycologist]

Interesting shortage I've found but nobody has seemed to mention yet - Paint Brushes, I was in the DIY shops before looking for some brushes to finish off a job I'm doing and the three places I tried didn't have any 1" brushs available as single units only in multi packs of brushes of different sizes.

I managed to get myhands on some 3/4" and 1" ones but I had to go to a plumbing shop that sells them where most people wouldn't think to look.

 

[MadStan]

I've been in this thread on and off telling about the effects of these issues without trying to Powerlevel and reveal much. It's hard because content is important.

And I've been a pessimist, but it appears I was being an optimist.

I got off the phone Friday with some suppliers of raw materials for a job I am quoting and I could not fucking believe the lead times I was quoted. I mean, I'm talking 4 months or more for something that was 2 weeks in 2019, then 7-8 weeks late 2020, 12-14 weeks April 2021, and now I got told 20-24 weeks.

Thats putting my production out to 6 months at best as it takes me 8 weeks to do what I got to do. And that's if it goes smoothly.

I offered 20% premium on the order to bump it up and what did I get told? "We're being offered 50% extra by some to bump it up."

This is some serious shit.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I've been in this thread on and off telling about the effects of these issues without trying to Powerlevel and reveal much. It's hard because content is important.

And I've been a pessimist, but it appears I was being an optimist.

I got off the phone Friday with some suppliers of raw materials for a job I am quoting and I could not fucking believe the lead times I was quoted. I mean, I'm talking 4 months or more for something that was 2 weeks in 2019, then 7-8 weeks late 2020, 12-14 weeks April 2021, and now I got told 20-24 weeks.

Thats putting my production out to 6 months at best as it takes me 8 weeks to do what I got to do. And that's if it goes smoothly.

I offered 20% premium on the order to bump it up and what did I get told? "We're being offered 50% extra by some to bump it up."

This is some serious shit.

Out of intrest what is it? I was trying to get my hands on some Inconel for something I want to do but I can't even get my hands on a 3" round bar scrap drop at the moment for anything else than 3X it's price last year. Sames going for Copper and some grades of brass but that's less urgent for what I'm trying to do.

 

[Corette]

Here's Ghost of Christmas yet to come.

 

[AnotherPleb]

You're overestimating how much wiggle room they give themselves.

Wiggle room is money being wasted to these retards.

 

[FatalTater]

I went on Chewy dot com to get some critter food last night and noticed that they were out of stock on all but one size of the bagged food I needed. It was fine since that was the size I get anyway, but it gave me a bit of a panic so I ordered a little extra.

If possible don't wait until you're all the way out of something to buy more. This seems like something that shouldn't have to be said but I forget that not everyone grew up a bajillion miles from shops with people that would rather die than "waste" fuel.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I offered 20% premium on the order to bump it up and what did I get told? "We're being offered 50% extra by some to bump it up."

I called my supplier looking for HDPE pipe. I was told the big company in town buys the whole truckload anytime some comes in and the supply house has no interest in changing that arrangement

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Here's Ghost of Christmas yet to come.
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The punchline is amazing

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The more I read that article, there more I think some tinfoil hats guys might be on to something.

Martin Armstrong: Are The US Supply Chain Disruptions Deliberate? | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com,

Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo may have accidentally leaked the cause of America’s supply chain issues.

“The reality is the only way we’re going to get to a place where we work through this transition is if everyone in America and everyone around the world gets vaccinated,” Adeyemo admitted in an interview with ABC News.

Starve them out, let the dissenters suffer, and those who bought into this agenda will turn against them.

Adeyemo said that the Biden Administration has already provided “the resources the American people need to make it to the other side.”

Basically, everyone should give into the vaccine mandate or face the consequences. They are masking authoritarianism as utilitarianism. The vaccine has not been mandated at the federal level in the US, yet, but it is apparent that the government plans to make life as difficult as possible for those who do not obey.

Echoing the Fed, Adeyemo said that inflation is “transitory,” and “as part of the transition we are seeing higher pieces for some of the things people have to buy… That’s exactly why the president was focused in the American Rescue Plan in ensuring on getting stimulus into the hands of the American people, so they’d be able to buy the products they need.”

Yes, the government expects us, the Great Unwashed, to be thankful for their measly handouts to purchase unavailable products at an all-time high. There is a reason people have recently nicknamed the president “bare shelves Biden,” with the hashtags #BareShelvesBiden and #EmptyShelvesJoe becoming a viral sensation.

Although the Biden Administration met with the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, which handles 40% of the nation’s goods, the promise of a 24/7 operation has not yet occurred. There is no ETA for when the ports will begin 24/7 operations either. Some ships are allegedly waiting 12 days at anchor before reaching the dock, and over 60 vessels are idled in the San Pedro Bay at the moment. With one of the nation’s busiest shopping holidays approaching (Black Friday) followed by ongoing seasonal shopping, this matter is likely to turn ugly.

 

[Ahriman]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey believes hyperinflation is an impending threat to the US economy — and will change everything

Jack Dorsey used Twitter to express fears about hyperinflation. His comments came amid supply-chain disruptions, which can affect the price of goods.

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Companies like yours were an integral part of what's going on today. The day will come where you'll reap the whirlwind, hippy cunt.

 

[Sped Xing]

13.99 for 100 11 inch zip ties today.

The cashier thought she'd made a mistake.

 

[Kupier]

Trying not to PL too much. I've got a friend who produces specific metal parts for harvesting equipment. Supposedly, he's the only one to makes them. I last spoke to him 2 months ago. He was waiting on materials for months at that point already.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

Showing my local Dollar General in the suburbs adjacent to Philadelphia, the Walmart is patchy as fuck as well, the local Save-a-lot was maxed out though. The DG is hard to tell if this is just staffing issue or supply crisis, DG is just a poorly run company but I've never seen their store this empty, usually its the opposite, they have their trolleys sitting in the aisle with stuff they're stocking.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

Trying not to PL too much. I've got a friend who produces specific metal parts for harvesting equipment. Supposedly, he's the only one to makes them. I last spoke to him 2 months ago. He was waiting on materials for months at that point already.

Minor powerlevel here myself, but I had to recently go to Staples to get some things printed, and they informed me that they're unable to print on the specific paper material I requested, as they've been out of stock for months. The lady at the print center laughed it up like, "Hehe, yep, we haven't had any of that stuff in months, and who knows when they'll actually deliver it here!?"

So what I'm personally seeing are minor disruptions in odd places. Not empty shelves nor full on 1930s bread breadlines, but just random instances of a specific product being unavailable. There's plenty of Monster Energy everywhere but no Rockstar. There's plenty of milk and yogurt, but no butter. There's packs of Ramen Noodles, but no more individual Cup Noodles anywhere. Just weird stuff like that.

Basically, what I'm seeing is similar to what @Michael Jacks0n said a few days ago: not complete shortages, just minor shortages of specific things. Funnily enough, where I live, there's plenty of Monster!

 

[FatalTater]

I think the hardest part of all this nonsense will be keeping the panic and depression down. Some of us know how to survive in less than perfect conditions, but as the past couple years have shown, a LOT of folks don't know how to cope if anything is the least bit different.

I wonder how much of the "worker shortage" is BS too. Lots of people, even if they quit their usual jobs would be looking for something else out of boredom. I've heard stories of folks that have applied for multiple jobs only to not get called about it. Are businesses being told not to hire more workers?

 

[Gigasneed]

Has anyone heard about issues with trash pickup? If trash pickup fails, cities are going to be in big trouble.

My workplace is stuffed to the gills with trash and recycle because the trash collection company has been collecting trash on less than half of the days that they did 6 months ago.
The 40 yard dumpster we ordered to remove some of the bulk trash came so late we needed to order 2 more to even have a hope of getting caught up, both of which are late and still have yet to arrive.

 

[Sped Xing]

I think the hardest part of all this nonsense will be keeping the panic and depression down. Some of us know how to survive in less than perfect conditions, but as the past couple years have shown, a LOT of folks don't know how to cope if anything is the least bit different.

I wonder how much of the "worker shortage" is BS too. Lots of people, even if they quit their usual jobs would be looking for something else out of boredom. I've heard stories of folks that have applied for multiple jobs only to not get called about it. Are businesses being told not to hire more workers?

The idea of getting a job because you don't know what else to do with your time is depressing. Are people really so lost? I hear people express this idea so often I think they must really feel that way. "If I won the lottery I'd still want a job" wtf?

Anyway, as to the worker shortage, there's a thread in AnH about a guy applying to 60 entry level jobs and getting only one callback. Apparently big companies are all using highly autistic hiring software, rather than hiring actual humans to look at actual applications and get people to work. If so, it's one more example of modern "flexibility is waste" dipshits destroying society.

If anyone is looking for nonspecific work, I suggest talking to smaller businesses. If the hiring manager is either the owner or reports directly to the owner. Chances are they aren't plugging resumes into some exceptional AI, and will actually care to get positions filled.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Companies like yours were an integral part of what's going on today. The day will come where you'll reap the whirlwind, hippy cunt.

It will be amazing to see him and Silicon Valley collectively shit themselves when they realize that their entire business model becomes kaput when people no longer have the time and money for shit like twitter and facebook.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

The more I read that article, there more I think some tinfoil hats guys might be on to something.

Martin Armstrong: Are The US Supply Chain Disruptions Deliberate? | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Well, if the Supply Chain issues are self-imposed to try and compel folks to take the shots, then it’s just another example of the Elites shooting themselves in the foot. I’d be willing to bet that where we are right now as far as numbers of unvaccinated is pretty much where we’re always going to be unless Govts shift to full-on forced vaccination and I mean at the barrel of a gun. I’ve said it before, and will say it again, the Elites need to just do what they’ve always done when they’ve played losing hands out in the past. Just have their propagandists claim that they “won”, and then move on. Why they won’t/can’t seem to do that here when they’re so obviously playing out a losing hand is beyond my comprehension.