re: How Would You Handle? Employee spends too much on company card. But is top producer...

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my response would probably depend on the revenue the guy was bringing in, I have a friend that was a neighbor of mine in FL, entrepreneur, has a global business that has done very well, he has three salesmen that he pays more than he pays himself because the revenues they bring to the company are so huge, obviously they have more latitude when it comes to expense accounts than a lower level employee doing more mundane tasks

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About once every year or so, I get a call from a company that has a sexual harassment issue that requires (due to policy) an employee to be fired, but the employee is a key salesperson who brings a ton of money into the company. In several cases, firing the employee would require the company to layoff employees. The usual answer is to find a way to work around the firing (and to rewrite the policy to make it clear that employment termination is never mandatory).