Allow me to repost the totally bogus order depths chart that can't possibly be anything near reality and that in no way, shape or form suggests that shipping progress hits a wall in mid-late March. It also totally doesn't suggest that we've only made it 50%-60% of the way to the end of April's backorders.
There's actually a wall in the last week of March that extends into April and ends in May, so if they're still at 50 or 60 employees today, the backlog could be stuck at 200+ days for the next few weeks.
50 or 60?? Where did you get that number?
There are EXACTLY 16 people assembling hardware. SIXTEEN
They won't hire more because the parts trickle in the door and assembled units trickle out the door.
By the time people who ordered gear in July/August of 2013 get theirs they will be like Block erupters.