Why is so hard to be semi competent?

How much you paying him?

I'll do it for $60k and a dvd of cool runnings.

ETA: not even kidding at all. i'll settle for a vhs tape of cool runnings though

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I'll do it for $60k and a dvd of cool runnings.

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I'll do it for $45k if I can telecommute.

You don't have to move to Brentwood but need to be able to commute to downtown Nashville. I mean this person has had their exact retirement date written down for 8 years now.

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I'll do it for $45k if I can telecommute.

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I'll do it for $50k but I will do the job hugely.

Preds season tickets don't cost that much. LOL, I'll let you know if anything comes of this.

SAP?

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SAP?

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God no.

What's the labor market like there? If it's a hard market, just wait it out until the next economic downturn and hire someone else. Start documenting now. You need to counsel him, document it, give him a chance to improve, make sure he isn't in one of the protected classes etc. Probably better discuss with both your attorney, insurance and risk management vendor.

Or if you don't want to do that you'd better start working towards his strengths, and doing his work for him, all the while signing his paycheck. I had to do exactly this when someone applied overstating her experience, and when I started the process, all of the sudden she suffered from chronic depression and something else that made her virtually impossible to fire. All last summer. Hardly any golf, and paying her for the pleasure.

But the quicker one learns even the best employee doesn't care about your business half as much as you do, the quicker the quality of your life will improve. And the quicker you learn that one of the most important functions of being an employer is to be extremely diligent in the hiring process, the happier you will be.

I feel your pain. I had to log in to my office every night last summer to double check work. Rarely was I done before 7PM, and on the few occasions I felt I could go play gold, I was so burnt out, I didn't feel like it. I had to monitor emails. I really couldn't monitor telephone calls. I prevented several potential lawsuits due to her faulty work. I had to balance the well being of the existing employees, who also had to do her work, and make sure I didn't lose another employee. It was virtually impossible to hire around here. But when you own it, and a large percentage of your net worth is predicated on the sale value of your business, you gotta do it.

eta. I've had to fire three people in 23 years. None of these were easy. We're smaller, so I'm HR, IT, all the other crap that goes along with keeping expenses low, so my distribution remained high. It's a professional office with licensing required, so it is even more difficult as the bad employees know precisely how to game the system.

I'll take 70k for a year but within the year I'll automate the position almost entirely. So you'll be down 5k for the year and up 60k next year when I go back to consulting.