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

  • bobvillasworstpupil@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Recording the audio of your employees is not only illegal it is also extremely unethical. You don’t need a law to tell you that. You wouldn’t want it done to you. In fact you are the type of person that would be irate if even one word of yours was recorded without consent. Your employees have seen an unethical, totalitarian owner that needs to go. For that I hope they succeed in starting their own business and you don’t get a dime for yours.

    • Douche-bagle@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I get it but all the employees have access to the cameras at any time. Nothing was recorded. Cameras were installed with complete agreement of the team For insurance issues.

      • oftcenter@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Cameras were installed with complete agreement of the team For insurance issues.

        My concern would be about how comfortable employees would feel voicing disagreement to the owner of the company about having cameras installed where they work. They might feel like it would make them seem like they had something to hide.

        So if they had not agreed, you wouldn’t have installed the cameras regardless of insurance issues?

        • bobvillasworstpupil@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Exactly. That’s coerced agreement that would lose in every court in the nation. Also what about audio recordings would be for insurance purposes? I can understand video recording for insurance. And I’m not opposed to that. Employees are video recorded everywhere they go now. They need to get used to it. It’s the audio that is a problem in the sight of the law and ethically.