My first ever hire was a terrible mistake and the only thing that made it worse was to not fire her and spend too long trying to fix it. It was for a startup and my idea at the time was that firing someone so early might cause unnecessary morale damage to the company (startups are fragile).
In hindsight, if you ever make a bad hire it is better to admit the mistake and then not worry about the consequences of firing, because the only thing worse is to keep the person around for longer than necessary. A mistake is a mistake and you get to pick which poison to swallow, one of them is much better than the other.
W9 work seems to be gaining in popularity, I think possibly for this reason.
(W9 is the USA tax form for “independent contractor”, as opposed to W2 which has a slightly(?) tougher compliance burden about how to go about firing) (there are other words for this in other jurisdictions, probably?)
My first ever hire was a terrible mistake and the only thing that made it worse was to not fire her and spend too long trying to fix it. It was for a startup and my idea at the time was that firing someone so early might cause unnecessary morale damage to the company (startups are fragile).
In hindsight, if you ever make a bad hire it is better to admit the mistake and then not worry about the consequences of firing, because the only thing worse is to keep the person around for longer than necessary. A mistake is a mistake and you get to pick which poison to swallow, one of them is much better than the other.
W9 work seems to be gaining in popularity, I think possibly for this reason.
(W9 is the USA tax form for “independent contractor”, as opposed to W2 which has a slightly(?) tougher compliance burden about how to go about firing) (there are other words for this in other jurisdictions, probably?)