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
Honestly why not ask yourself the tough question. “Why do my people think so poorly of me?”
Seems like your view off them has been different than how they’ve viewed you.
For such a small staff it’s likely your not seeing the whole picture.
Apparently, they like the industry, like the clients, but don’t like you.
Kind of odd that I had to scroll this far down to see this.
It’s obvious that OP’s employees don’t feel they’re treated well and probably don’t like them personally. Since he’s the kind of employer to spy on his workers and electronically eavesdrop on their conversation, they likely have good cause.