Working With Family

I’ve worked with my dad and uncles when I was younger but it was more just grafting while I was at school, I couldn’t think of out worse than working with family or friends though. Me grandad always drummed it into me never to mix business and pleasure and never cross your work life into your home life. I have work mates, but I’ve never socialised outside of work with them and never would.
 


buster said:
Draw up a training plan so he’s well aware of all aspects of the business , bring him in on meetings and get him introducted to your contacts.

Then more importantly give him financial incentives so he’s well tied in to run the business profitably.






in ten years time he’ll be posting bollocks on here like his fatha….
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Or carrying my golf bag marra! 😉

Seriously path id like is him to get a hands on trade elsewhere, I can teach him the office side then he’s armed for both roles wether it works out or not, or indeed if he wants it.
 
dangermows said:
Family owned businesses usually see the kids getting away with being lazy and receiving preferential treatment. Suppose that's not surprising mind given they skip the open and fair recruitment process in the first place.
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The amount of knackers running haulage firms with their granddads names on the side of their trucks is insane.

They are the worst people I’ve ever encountered for business acumen, attitudes to staff and suppliers, tax and H&S. Cretins of the very highest order.

They’re also the first on LinkedIn to tell you how to grow a business and complain when people hold them to account.
 
Swindon On Tour said:
Did you say hello in the Globe from the Swindon fan 😂⚽️
Get that Strong-arm on to go 🍺🍺
Always will look back on that day with fondness. Getting well oiled with @Horley Chorley and finishing off in the Globe with a few glasses of Port with the Poolie landlord. Picked up a bulldog in the kebab shop 😂😂⚽️⚽️
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Was in shock! Got there half ten, just a young couple behind bar n 4 or 5 punters! Every other time ive been in its been chocca! Hopefully a one off! Aye get yersels a revisit booked!
 
Depends on the roles. I wouldn't like to be boss of a family member of have them be boss of me, but I'd have no issues just being employees working alongside each other. Apart from the misses as she'd then want to go for dinner together & that, and would do my head in everyday
 
When I was an f&b manager I used to occasionally get my brother and sisters involved if we needed extra bodies for events etc. They hated working for me though as I know what they’re capable of and if they weren’t living up to it I’d be less than lenient on them. 😂 It’s easier to bollock family I think. My daughter asked me to go and work for her in her tattoo shop a while back and I reminded her what it would actually be like and she rescinded the offer saying she’d probably sack me. If she did that I’d just keep turning up to work anyway and we’d have a massive bust up because she’s far too much like me for us to work together!
 
Brian Griffin said:
The amount of knackers running haulage firms with their granddads names on the side of their trucks is insane.

They are the worst people I’ve ever encountered for business acumen, attitudes to staff and suppliers, tax and H&S. Cretins of the very highest order.

They’re also the first on LinkedIn to tell you how to grow a business and complain when people hold them to account.
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Back in my college days there was a grandson of a huge firm on the course. Proper bone idle spoilt wanker who no doubt is still ‘working’ for him.


My accountant looks after a big firm n they were going off it about an annual profit.

He said the mother, father, sons, dsughters n partners all had a new bmw n decent wage each n they were in shock profits were poor!
 
Swindon On Tour said:
Did you say hello in the Globe from the Swindon fan 😂⚽️
Get that Strong-arm on to go 🍺🍺
Always will look back on that day with fondness. Getting well oiled with @Horley Chorley and finishing off in the Globe with a few glasses of Port with the Poolie landlord. Picked up a bulldog in the kebab shop 😂😂⚽️⚽️
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A canny Sunrise over H/pool marina, around 07:30 ISH, this morning.

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Brian Griffin said:
The amount of knackers running haulage firms with their granddads names on the side of their trucks is insane.

They are the worst people I’ve ever encountered for business acumen, attitudes to staff and suppliers, tax and H&S. Cretins of the very highest order.

They’re also the first on LinkedIn to tell you how to grow a business and complain when people hold them to account.
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Agreed with almost all of this as I must point out its Grandad.
 
legend7 said:
It can be good but if it goes wrong it can go very badly wrong.
Was with someone this week and he and his sister ran the family business after the father retired, decent size company and quite well known locally.
He was doing most of the work and taking little out and think she just saw it as a good wage, has caused absolute carnage and she has split the whole family, he's had to buy everyone out basically. You can tell he's gutted about the big fallout, even the parents are involved.
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MC?
 
Mackem00 said:
You speaking from experience there mate? :lol:
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Not as a warring family member, but seen it in lots of clients, customers and suppliers. A Welsh lad I know grew up in poverty while his cousins were rich as astronauts, because his dad was the family wasteman.

No way I was ever going to work for my fatha. I don't know if he wanted me to, but if he did he should have been less of a selfish bell end when I was growing up.
 

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