Author: Tom Tucky

I sense employee anxiety rising as the death toll rises. All I can do is keep them calm, safe, and feeling like the work they are doing is meaningful. It is impossible to say how many “We are Open” banners, Covid signs, and supportive messages we have printed, but its thousands and thousands. I will […]

It’s April Fool’s day, yet practical jokes simply don’t feel appropriate. We are keeping it professional light here, trying to help the city with a complex stenciling job, printing a ton of Covid Signs, and keeping regular operations with social distancing a priority. All in all, spirits are good.

We made a fun life sized cheer-up for a grandpa for his grandkids. He ordered it yesterday afternoon, it’s being mailed to Wisconsin today. Grandpa as the Fonz- it’s perfectly silly and sweet. We’ll grab a pic and post on our Facebook page today or tomorrow, Another one we just did we cannot post- unless […]

Mondays are the worst stress days for business owners during this pandemic. You don’t want your employees panicked, but they have to be informed. Anyone over 30 knows the saying, “If it bleeds, it leads”. Here’s hoping everyone is calm and didn’t consume “sky is falling news” 24/7 over the weekend. I have been carefully […]

In the current normal our business is now a part of, we are keeping some sense of levity here. Today, we are having a High School Daze/Prom Photo Contest. Each staff member is bringing in a photo from when they were in high school and we can see how much they have changed. Our facility […]

The Senate did it! Though a few knuckleheads tried to stop the train, it looks like wisdom prevailed. Who wants to see the suicide rate, the divorce rate, and the crime rate skyrocket, when it is in congress’s power to give people some desperately needed calm. We have been busy at Good Guys Signs, and […]

We print a lot of labels. I found it amusing, and good for my people, that medical marijuana dispensaries are deemed “essential”. We’ve easily printed a couple hundred thousand product labels for dispensaries alone in the past 6 weeks. CBD is another, though they spend more per unit, often as vinyl decals. The cigar industry […]

We’re open for the foreseeable future, as an essential business for hundreds of companies who are open that we make labels, stickers and more for. Locking the doors for walk-in guests is strange, but safer for my team. People are arriving, calling the local line, and we bring out their items to them. Employees feel […]

Yes, we are open! I am considering the idea of a life-sized cheer up. It’s a cutout of your loved one, someone you can’t be with due to isolation policies. We’d sell them at our cost only. We can help people have a silly, sweet cutout, and keep our own people employed, thus everyone wins. […]

I just bought another $12,000 of digital ink – and another truck of coroplast. I can’t feed our team if we don’t have raw materials to make signs with.  Business is solid. Here’s hoping the gov’t doesn’t shut us down. We had to call one customer with a 2000 sign order and tell them it […]