Article about my uncle. Read it.
December 10, 2013 Comment: This post had a dead link on it, which is too bad, because it linked to a story about my uncle and his company Whirlwind USA, an audio interface and musicians' electrical equipment company. Whirlwind is located in Rochester, New York, which was recently "hailed" as the fifth poorest city in the country. Despite its hard times, or maybe because of it, my uncle Mike has kept the company there, including his manufacturing plant. Most of his employees have been with him since around the time I was born. In 2008, he was taking an economic hit on par with the rest of the country. But instead of closing his doors, he called his whole staff together and brainstormed ways to keep open. They decided to bring back a series of lower price guitar pedals that had been the staple of their catalog when they opened and keep them inexpensive and sell them as "classic". Mike got a federal stimulus grant that helped underwrite his medical insurance costs so he would not have to eliminate benefits. The article was written in 2009, and it hailed Whirlwind for sticking it out through the recession, saving jobs and reintroducing a lower cost but well-regarded piece of musician's equipment, in partnership with the government.
Anyway, dead link. But now you know if you did not already. That is your feel-good post-Recession story of the day.
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