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PestFreeCanada
Contributor 5
1 day ago

What kind of small mistakes would you let slide on a new workers first day?

I just hired my first employee. He is a young, bright, articulate 22 year old fresh out of university. I took him on as a summer intern to help me during my busy months to start, with the hopes he li...
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JohnD
New Member
23 hours ago

I tend to be fairly easygoing for the first few days. Its a highly stressful time for the new employee and they probably aren't thinking at their most efficient. After a few weeks, maybe a month I start to focus in a bit more and dial in on correcting mistakes. I think it would have to be a pretty significant mess up to fire a guy on day one. Only time I've seen it was when I was a foreman for a previous employer and a guy showed up drunk on day one, he wasn't allowed to come back, thats a red flag for sure!