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Usual story. Probably familiar to so many people.
Person was a friend outside work. I had ambitions for this person to run the company over the longer term.
Bottom line: don't employ friends.
An ex-employee who we terminated their contract of employment recently has begun a job at a rival company.
This ex-employee is now ringing our customers - their direct lines - and trying to sell exactly what this customer has historically purchased from us.
Now this person got a new job in...
Because they are not on a final warning. And you can't simply fire people who have been employed for over 12 months.
I'm speaking from experience here - we lost an unfair dismissal case at a tribunal previously.
We've made a redundancy before. We followed redundancy procedure to the letter. We looked at all the staff in the organisation in the process.
However, this time it's a little different. We only have 1 person in sales. This person is not bringing in any business and hasn't for months now. This...