[Aerkuld]

One of the other pitfalls is the one that a company I worked for fell into and it isn't like we couldn't see it coming.

Times were good and it looked like they could make even more money by outsourcing all of the manufacturing work overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. This worked for a while until the oil prices went up and then the exchange rate became less favorable. Of course in the meantime the company sold off the manufacturing equipment. Now it would be cheaper to make the stuff in-house but they haven't got the facility to do so.

Bummer.