Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for December 27, 2016

running a family business where the employer and employees are all related must be hard

I grew up in a family business

Dads’ attitude was that he family members worked hard to show how it was done, the non-family employees just had to try to keep up

Or you can, you know, make him work harder.

Simple policy: no work, no pay, no job.

Well, Rod, then the people you need to talk to are his parents.

I’ve had no problems firing relatives, friends, even a wife, when they were not working up to expectations..

I was pressured into getting a summer job,where I was working, for my first cousin by his parents and mine, when we were both in high school.

He was bone lazy ! My boss put it on me to fire him, because, I’d recommended him in the first place.

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I never heard the end of it the entire summer from his mother and her sister ( my mother ).

Fortunately, my uncle and my dad sided with me !

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What a sad commentary. Just what does ‘work’ really mean to some folks is a mystery.

No you tell his parents what a slug he is, and if they don’t square him away you will be forced to fire him. At that point the ball is in their court.

Uh; seems to me that this one has been here before?

I’ve worked for a small Family Owned Business, there were good and bad times, but you always Knew you weren’t part of the Family.

I worked in a small diner and the 2 owners and the son would take money out of the register to run to the store and not put a note in saying so and of course the register was short. the wife complained. The other lady working said “Well Joan and I will make it up.” Good old Joan retorted To her “Speak for your self” The subject was never brought up again. I likedthe people that came there and I got pretty good tips.