​Looking at Cutting Employees due to lack of sales

Run a landscape installation company. We have 9 crews from 1 to 3 people per crew. 75th year anniversary and things where looking strong in winter

Basically the budget needs us to sell about 90k a week to keep crews going and make a profit. I started 2 new somewhat experience designers last year and promoted a Forman to designer. (Experience designers are 100% commission and new designers are base plus commission until they reach what i feel is a pretty easy goal. So many new designers was manly to try to encourage my dad to take more days off (he loves sales/ design and is our top sales, most years i plan on whooping him this year)

But we are only averaging 75 to 80k a week in designer sales. The crews are coasting on us shutting down one section of the company and moving the product. As well as relying on a few large projects closed over the winter. But these larger projects are about to end. And we only have 2 weeks of work on the board

This is our busy season or should be. We are normally 6 weeks out in spring and lose 2 or 3 weeks of schedule in the summer before sales pick up again in fall

My major delima is who to let go. 1 guy we hired this spring to replace the Foreman, so easy choice. One guy has some anger issues but does decent work with us for 2 seasons. Almost everyone else has been with us for 7 to 20 years.

Just ranting. I feel awful for the decisions I need to make. But I am heading back to the office soon to make other budgets to see how many I may need to let go. And how many I need to keep without affecting other sections

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