how do I inform my buddy I don’t wish to rent her?
A reader writes:
I handle a small vacationer store. It will get moderately busy in the course of the summer season, and I’m planning on hiring two folks to assist cowl shifts.
One in all my buddies needs me to rent her. She mentioned that she wants more cash to assist pay payments. I’m reluctant to, as a result of she rage-quit virtually each job she’s had within the final three years. She’s not presupposed to be driving, however does it anyway. She informed me she’d solely need 20 hours every week and that she doesn’t wish to be scheduled earlier than 3 pm due to one other job. However that gained’t work with the schedule.
How do I inform her that I don’t really feel snug hiring her, particularly along with her monitor document? I like being buddies along with her, however I would like to rent somebody that gained’t storm out or complain concerning the hours.
I reply this query — and three others — over at Inc. right this moment, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
Different questions I’m answering there right this moment embrace:
- Giving a presentation with a coworker who swears lots
- Letting folks know I’ll be slower to reply whereas caring for my father
- How necessary are the primary 100 days?
