This unfortunately is a common business model that Amazon uses. If your products sell well and do good in the market, Amazon will steal your idea and compete directly with you. So many stories of this happening.
Amazon is evil. Never trust a business owned by a billionaire with defense contracts that works directly with the government. Aside from bezoar, ahem ahem, I’m looking at you Free-Lon Sus (Elon).
Man it’s a bad time to start most businesses and considering that Walmart is saying we’re in a deflation and right around the holidays it’s going to get much worse. Deflation was the big event we needed not to happen because essentially once we fell into deflation there’s no chance of coming back now. Not trying to be discouraging but trying to be realistic. I would definitely be planning for long term to get through what’s coming.
Boom this! Let him go, explain he’s available for rehire when he gets his shit together. Move on and let nature take its course.
Or mental health or both. This story reads like part of my biography. Good worker, excellent skills while at work… getting me to the job is a whole separate issue. 😂
Explain to him the positives that you’ve stated here. Explain to him how his personal life is impacting your business. Explain to him you have been tolerant of this impact up until now but that if he can’t provide a timeline for return you will have terminate his position and he can apply for rehire when he sorts out his situation but there’s no guarantee that a position will be available. By the way, this is coming from someone who is this way. I’m very skilled at my craft so excellent work but I’m aware of that and as such have definitely over extended myself and been a problem child because of my value. I’ve lived in my bosses office, drank on the job and smoked weed on the job and was given a pass on all of it because in the words of my bosses son, “don’t tell my dad I told you but he says you e made him more money than all the employees combined past and present.” My last job I slept in and showed up when I wanted, etc. I was the headache. This behavior will likely not change for him without a coke to Jesus moment. I never tell any of my past employers this or frankly anyone because it would ruin my benefit of being treated that way but this is the cold hard truth.
Many times getting fired was the best thing for me because it forced me into a situation where I had to shape up in order to survive. There are a lot of work environments that have zero tolerance for this behavior, I know this and I adjust accordingly to survive. He knows this too. However, when an employer allows my personal bs to impact them and they don’t do anything about it, I’m going to continue to do it because I now know I can.
He will keep doing this to you also because at the end of the day he is more important to him than you. You need to be more important to you than him. He will adjust, he will survive. You’ll find other good employees with time. It’s unacceptable to allow his behavior to not only impact you and your business but as an extension, your employees and your customers.
Jeez now I feel like I have to delete this and go punch myself in the face for giving away the secrets of us problem children. 😂
A great opportunity for you? More like he’s taking advantage of a young naive person for an opportunity for him. Why doesn’t he partner with someone experienced who has a track record of success? Because those ppl wouldn’t entertain that idea. Now ask yourself why. You don’t want to fuck yourself over like that.