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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Just to be clear. Regardless of the OP, assumptions, simple business problems, etc. - I ask this question:
If you have to address labor costs, how do you do it?
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With as much sensitivity as possible.
I've fired people. I've fired people for cause, and I've fired them because their continuing employment is fianancially untenable for the company. I hated having to do it, but I had to do it. I did it in a company of under 20 people, where every employee is like family, you know their kids, you've been to the company baseball games and cookouts together. It doesn't get harder than that. At those times, I wished I could treat them as numbers, just subtract them off the balance sheet. But I couldn't--not and look at myself in the mirror that night.
I think part of what makes answering your question difficult, ace, is that we're suspicious that there's a point you're trying to make, and nobody wants to step into a pit of quicksand. So here's a simple question for you: what's the point of this thread? What point are you out to make here?