Employees - I really need help and opinions

MadMax · 2005-10-29, 06:10 PM

I've got several employees all the time at my brick and mortar company (a metal fabrication shop). I give a new employee a chance to get settled and learn what I expect from them, but I do NOT cut slack until they prove themselves and prove that they can do a good job at a good pace unsupervised. Perhaps it's your pay structure you should look at. No cash until the job is done, or X amount of work per week for X amount of money. Don't really know what your pay structure is so it's hard to say.

My advice is show them that you mean business and expect results. If they tell you it will take longer than you want to do something (because NOBODY is ever as fast as the boss, no matter what biz it is) the demand that it be done as promised. I'm assuming here that you're talking about full timers or part timers and not freelancers, but you get the idea.

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2005-10-29, 06:10 PM	#6
MadMax "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes" ~ Satan Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Motor City, baby, where carjacking was invented! Now GIMME THOSE SHOES! Posts: 2,385	I've got several employees all the time at my brick and mortar company (a metal fabrication shop). I give a new employee a chance to get settled and learn what I expect from them, but I do NOT cut slack until they prove themselves and prove that they can do a good job at a good pace unsupervised. Perhaps it's your pay structure you should look at. No cash until the job is done, or X amount of work per week for X amount of money. Don't really know what your pay structure is so it's hard to say. My advice is show them that you mean business and expect results. If they tell you it will take longer than you want to do something (because NOBODY is ever as fast as the boss, no matter what biz it is) the demand that it be done as promised. I'm assuming here that you're talking about full timers or part timers and not freelancers, but you get the idea.