Carrots and Sticks.

Someone had a question on facebook yesterday about how to handle an employee.  I gave him various ideas and things to watch out for and then I went to bed.

As I'm in bed trying to go to sleep I realized that I did him a disservice.  I only gave him options on the stick method of management.  This morning I sent him another message about the carrot side of management.

I was ashamed of myself, I made my reputation by working with my employees instead of just firing them.  Some of my best employees were the ones that I trained, worked with, and explained every little detail of what I needed them to do and why.


Some of them took their loyalty a little too far, one lady offered to smash a glass ashtray upside the head of another dancer.  Sweet of you to offer but assault isn't the best thing to do at work.

Those were some odd days, half-naked women willing to beat another half-naked woman because they weren't as nice as I "deserved".