I’ve been in business 20+ years - starting alone for the first years. Built it up and now have 5 employees. Recently I have been talking to my employees about buying into the company as I am nearing retirement. I gave two of my employees raises one of them a percentage based on his production. after that I got total silence never a thank you or anything so that caused some concern right there. One of the employees was receiving over $1000 a month raise. Recently I got Covid-19’s bad and was out for 2 months. I I have cameras at work so me and my partner were reviewing the cameras and noticed they were talking a lot of shit about me and making plans to start their own business I’m presuming stealing all the high-end clients. The Reality is that is if you put employee in the responsibility of dealing with clients you have to deal with the prospect that he might steal them eventually. less people and less drama and possibly hiring subcontractors to handle the business that I pay these people a lot of the time to stand around and do nothing might be better. We have a established a business location and will probably be fine. previously I’ve been talking with my right hand man about my exit strategy but now I want to talk to him about his exit strategy, one of the employees is poison to the others I can hear him talking shit about me and the business. I’m sure a lot of you experience the same type of situation’s any advice on how you handled it and the outcomes thereof would be appreciated thanks guys

  • Scentmaestro@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d fire that employee immediately and get on the phone with all of your clients and inform them of this attempted coup, and that you e always valued their business and assure them you’ll be there for all their needs in the future. Come up with some sort of loyalty promo. Then I’d contact any agencies they might try abd find subcontracts through and burn any bridges they’d hope to make. There’s wanting to branch off on one’s own, and then there’s taking a direct shot at your livelihood by stealing IP from you in the way of knowledge and clients and that can’t be tolerated.