July is our Founding month. I made my first sale on July 20th, 1987. 23 years later we are still  in business. We have had many locations since that time where I worked out of my rented house in San Mateo, California. Jeez I think about those early years and begin to really appreciate all that has happened over the years.    

          Rick Gentry our current Executive VP , was the first employee hired almost 22 years ago. Next came Stu Zins our venerable jack of all trades, in the fall of 1989. For the next 20 years we have hired and then seen many a wonderful individual leave the company. Many have made Quickscrews a better company and yet they have moved on to better their own lives for themselves.

       Today we are looking in the mirror and realize we look like the company we were over 10 years ago. Our sales have retracted to that point and so has our employee base. Rick, Stu and I handle all the sales functions. Stu also supports purchasing as the domestic buyer for our company. Rick is heavily involved in trade shows and working with the distributors sales staff. We all cross train and do whatever it takes to get the job done. We are fortunate that our two warehouse managers, Alex and Lewis have been with us many years and have quote successfully manged their respective warehouses with great skill and diplomacy. We appreciate all the long term Quickscrews employees, as we begin to enter a new era.

            This summer is the first time that my 3 boys are working for the company. My eldest Jared who will be a junior at Cal Poly in SLO, is working in our marketing area redesigning the catalog and producing a year longs supply of creative e-mails to send out to all of you. My other two boys; Mike and Aaron are working in accounting and customer service respectively. Both of them are seniors in high school. New blood helps invigorate our company we welcome all of them.

Greg Wiener

Founder

Quickscrews International Corp.

As we move closer to the November elections we must be extremely leery of how each side will present “their” set of facts. Incumbents are in extremely precarious positions and they don’t seem to be aware of it on either side of the political aisle. Conservatives and Republicans appear to have the more motivated electorate which could bode well for changing the leadership in the House if not the Senate.

I caution all of us to be very selective in who we support. This midterm election could be one of the most important elections my generation has participated in. Why is this election important?

It is important because we are going to decide whether we agree with the current policies and continue down the path of larger more centralized government, or we are going to change direction and limit the growth of government. The status quo has got to change. We must remove the old guard who believe staying in power is their job. We must remove all those politicians who believe they know better how to spend our money than we do. We must remove all the politicians who believe government is the answer to all problems. Most importantly we must get back to governing FOR THE PEOPLE. If our elected officials continue to refuse to hear us, we must remove them from office, regardless of party.

Do not get misdirected by the politicians themselves. They are masters at this game, we must be prepared for an all out assault on reality as they get desperate in their attempt to stay in power. Think about it, when you are a member of congress you are part of a group that controls trillions of dollars. That kind of money brings great power. Politicians love power. Therefore they wish to control us by grabbing more and more of our dollars so they can disseminate and collect more power. Both parties are guilty of this and as long as one does it , the other has to. (more…)