Sid Post
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It is pretty common for small business owners to use employees on building projects--especially if there is some sort of disruption in material delivery (be that disruption of materials coming in or shipping products out or some sort of internal bottleneck--like not enough welders, for example) that leads to people sitting on their thumbs waiting for other components of the business to finish so idle workers can get to work again.
Again, all the problems seemingly stem from EA couldn't move into the new building because at least one sub-contractor changed the spec and from that, EA couldn't get an occupancy permit.
When you build a "house of cards", all it takes to bring it down is a good sneeze or breeze from an opened window.
EA was clearly over-extended, living on borrowed time, and got caught.