Working With Friends
The Pros & Cons to Hiring & Firing Friends - When The Promotion Doesn't Go To Your Buddy
Advice Seeker: Dear April,
I hired a friend of mine to work for me, and while it seemed like a great idea at the time, it’s been a disaster ever since. If this employee hadn’t been my friend first, I would have fired her a long time ago. What do I do?
Signed,
Fired Up
April Masini's advice:
Dear Fired Up,
If you hire and fire, chances are, at some point, you're going to find yourself hiring and firing friends. That is, people you have had relationships with before you worked together – as opposed to people you work with who became friends afterwards. And even though you will have both kinds of friends – those who pre-date your working together, and those who became friends after you began working together -- the problem of work and friendship crossing lines can be just as touchy as dating and working with the same people. The reason is that one or both of you have emotional feelings – and feelings of friendship are just as strong as feelings that people who date have with each other – that have nothing to do with work.
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