Worst things to do as a company/CEO - Please share and I will add

[The Hardest R]

Disaster Recovery - What do you do when shits fucked? Lack of at least basic fallbacks are what lead Colonial Pipeline hack leaving customers unserviced and pissed off and can set you back. This doesn't have to be a "Muh Hackers" concern this could literally just be business critical machinery failing too among other disasters. Evaluate points of failure and anything or anyone critical to basic business functionality.

Things like redundancy or business continuity just cost money for something that has a less than 1% chance of happening anyway. Better to just not do it and donate that money to a charity run by a nigger.

was a delicate matter of judging when the feature had lost interest and you could stop pretending to work on it

There’s an executive I worked for who would always come up with the most retarded idea over the weekend. She’d either pick fights or come up with a really bad or stupid idea. I just decided to never respond to those weekend emails. Only once in a great while would she follow up on them. Most of the time these “ideas people” fling out bullshit and never put a second thought into them to the point where they completely forget about it a day or two later.

 

[Uncle Tom's Condo]

Nepotism. Unless they hire the idiot nephew to do bitch work until he quits, then the place is going down the shitter in a few years.

The only time I ever saw it work out was when the son of the CEO started emptying bins and sweeping the office when he was like 8 or whatever and took the grunt work and worked his way up the ladder during HS and college. He worked there a few years after college and then his dad sat him down and asked his son if he wanted to take over one day. Son said he did, so his dad basically fired him and told him to go work for two different companies in adjacent industries and get some outside experience before coming back. Son did as asked and got some outside perspective and came back with more tools and skills than he would have had otherwise. Company is doing well and even though his dad is still the CEO, Son respects the long-term employees and they know that he's not on his first rodeo and when his time comes, he's not a goddamn moron who had everything handed to him.

Also, letting garbage tier employees remain with the company. They engender resentment with other employees and send a message that doing shit work is okay. The smaller the organization the worse it is. I had one employee, from a protected class of course, spiral into full-blown alcoholism, like extended hospital stays so they wouldn't die bad. So this person was missing a LOT of work and the other employees got pissed because extra work got dumped on them and then it got to the point that the other employees' attitude was like 'fuck it, if this person doesn't have to do their job without any punishment, why should I give a fuck?' And they weren't wrong for thinking that. It took over a year, a shit ton of legal fees to thread the narrow legal needle, working my board members every chance I had to get them to see how bad it was and then finally getting said employee before the board and highlighting this person's issues before I got the employee fired. This person was genuinely shocked when fired, which showed how bad the internal dysfunction was. And then it took another year or so to right the ship internally with the other employees to atone for how bad things had become. Fortunately we found a tremendous replacement and having that person join and really excel in the role was a major factor in getting back to normal and, frankly, doing better than ever. So yeah, CEOs and boards, shitcan your drunks and junkies ASAP.

 

[BLACKHAWK_Entropy]

i hate lawyer shit. I am so fucking sperg fuck. What are basic things you need in legal forms for business including safe non-fucked employment?

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Think it and instruct it CEOs. They hear about something or an idea pops in their head and they instantly get staff to act on it without any planning or strategy. It's often so quick that the CEO has forgotten about requesting it by the time it's presented.

I had a CEO like this, he would ask me to make reports and studies, detailed ones. Could take a couple of days and I present them to him and he'd be like "What's this?", "The report you asked for". And I'd never hear anything about it again. I learned never to make any reports for him again (Only if they were quick and easy) unless he asked twice because then I knew it was a serious request. 99% of the time he never did. I don't think the other staff recognized this and kept wasting time on "Reports".

 

[Betonhaus]

Think it and instruct it CEOs. They hear about something or an idea pops in their head and they instantly get staff to act on it without any planning or strategy. It's often so quick that the CEO has forgotten about requesting it by the time it's presented.

I had a CEO like this, he would ask me to make reports and studies, detailed ones. Could take a couple of days and I present them to him and he'd be like "What's this?", "The report you asked for". And I'd never hear anything about it again. I learned never to make any reports for him again (Only if they were quick and easy) unless he asked twice because then I knew it was a serious request. 99% of the time he never did. I don't think the other staff recognized this and kept wasting time on "Reports".

maybe make a report about the number of times he asked for a report only to forget about it and no longer want it? Include the amount of man-hours used and estimated cost of productivity

 

[BLACKHAWK_Entropy]

is there a way to pay anyone internationalnly without getting a legal entity/ paying regional taxes?

 

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I am 100 percent of the opinion that anyone in a pure consultation position is a grifter and if you need consulting for anything in a business that you as a higher up or owner, your specialist hires and or your lawyer(s) or accountant(s) can't handle then it's moved onto being more of a personal issue and not a business one. Like believe in yourself a LITTLE - At least do assloads of due diligence on your own time.

I could not disagree more.

Many consultants are grifters, I'll give you this. But it does not take away from the value they can bring. Learning takes time and involves trial and error, as well classic mistakes.

You'll save a lot more by paying a consultant 3K for a 3 day formation than you will expecting your employees to pick it up along the way. I don't care if you give them hours for learning or whatever. It's just not comparable.

In many (most) companies, it's not a question of confidence. It just does not make any sense whatsoever to have these people on the payroll for an hypothetical one of.

Learning only through your own perspective is another terrible error I did not mention. It's the best way to go bankrupt. Get stuck in your ways, don't even think of having an external view.

is there a way to pay anyone internationalnly without getting a legal entity/ paying regional taxes?

There are many. What's your problem?

Also, letting garbage tier employees remain with the company.

This is one I completely glossed over but so true, because it's just a no brainer for me, having experienced what it can be like when you are the one trying.

It's just common sense, one person will ruin the mood of 10 others if in close proximity. Nobody likes to feel exploited, and that's really how it feels when someone drags everybody else down. Suddenly, every standard start going out the window, for the simple fact that it's not "as bad".

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

It's just common sense, one person will ruin the mood of 10 others if in close proximity. Nobody likes to feel exploited, and that's really how it feels when someone drags everybody else down. Suddenly, every standard start going out the window, for the simple fact that it's not "as bad".

Also, letting garbage tier employees remain with the company. They engender resentment with other employees and send a message that doing shit work is okay. The smaller the organization the worse it is.

A major nail on the head, This is one of the cancers devouring the modern workplace.

People do not like to nor want to go to work to deal with retards and morons internally especially if they have to already deal with retards and morons externally. Money is half of it - But people will gladly take pay cuts to go to another job in order to NOT to come home exhausted and angry. There are a few people who come home feeling pretty good about themselves with a relatively dogshit job because the people they work with are quality enough.

It's not even limited to just lazy or bad workers too. You can just plain have nuisances that you need to address to.
A place I used to work with had a mass exodus of employees after getting an "official" statement of their decision to keep a guy because they would NOT get rid of the motor mouthed conspiracy retard who came off like a tweaking dope fiend and skeezed everyone else out because "he did good work"

More places are failing sideways because their individual locations and branches have one or multiple people who are overall just a waste of carbon and HR either can't fucking bother or they act like they are their personal precious workplace snookums to play point guard for.

It's created an atmosphere where nobody views it as worth it to say "Hey frank is a fucking lazy piece of shit and an asshole and people are shirking their shifts just to avoid him" because they think (rightly so sadly) they are just going to paint a target on their own back while the grinding wheels of bureaucracy spin fruitlessly and nothing comes of it. Or they picked on the bosses newphew or the office favorite.

 

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@Ukraine is Big Gay, for some reason I can't quote you but whatever

I really try to be the guy who is not going on the conspiracy side unless there is hard evidence, but I have to agree with you somewhat here.

I think the HR culture is driving this to shit. I don't want to get into specifics, but I now have people doing this, and I had to fight over things that I never have even conceptualized would even happen. For example, this person decided we needed more of certain demographic so mainly let them through. Had I not known what the typical recruitment pool is like, I would have never guessed they were literally throwing resumes in the garbage on the basis of gender.

These people have value, I can't deny them that. They do a horrible job. I would rather make half the salary and do anything else. But their mind is rotten. But fuck them too, the very nature of the job means anyone attracted to it is rotten in some way.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Doing business with the Chinese in any capacity that requires them to hold up their end of the bargain; ESPECIALLY if the transaction is "for a good price".

There's a reason international credit agencies exist that split debt with you if they approve and you get screwed by a foreign entity.

Anything to do with INDIA. Literally anything. Just pretend that entire specific country is a black hole and doesn't exist.

Whatever I say bad about China goes triple for India. Their business model and culture actively teach them that screwing you is good business. There is no relationship with an Indian company. Nuke this fucking continent. Also, on a side note, India has a dozen different regulations around paying foreign entities. Make sure you know what those are.

I'll throw one that hasn't been said. Keeping garbage sales people. You have two sales people. One that works to get big accounts, and one that gets garbage business but pays bills. If the big accounts guy doesn't get results, the choice is obvious. If the one that gets garbage starts costing you money because he can't be arsed to Google if companies exist or not, yeah fire his ass.

 

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People do not like to nor want to go to work to deal with retards and morons

That's HR for you.

It's pretty much a job description. Talk to retards all day is HR.

I don't even like most of my HR team, but they do what I don"t want to. At the end of the day, it's really what ti comes down to. Unless she really fucks up,, it's almost impossible for me to even notice.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Things like redundancy or business continuity just cost money for something that has a less than 1% chance of happening anyway. Better to just not do it and donate that money to a charity run by a nigger.

On the converse, not having redundancies for shit that tends to break because "We don't have enough storage" or "Replacement part too expensive" and then loosing their shit when said thing breaks and goes down for a week.

Whatever I say bad about China goes triple for India. Their business model and culture actively teach them that screwing you is good business.

It's like trying to deal with small city/county governments in the US. You either have to be well-connected, well off, or very good with people. You aren't getting the first one unless you either married in or speak the language, that's for sure.

I have a few to add as a contractor and being force to run an entire company for a few months:
Expecting anyone being paid <$20/hr to give a shit about maintenance on anything lol. I've seen folks fucking wear the differential bolts loose and snap the pivot joint off equipment by flooring the accelerator like an InitalD episode into a pothole.
Not having a mechanic if you work with agriculture or machines. Good luck.
Not doing preventative maintenance.
Bitch at employees when they haven't fucked up (I never bitched at the folks under me ever, feels counter-productive).
Give vague instructions, then bitch at the employee for not doing what you wanted in your head.
Micromanging everyone and every process that needs and SOP.
Expecting everyone to work outside of their defined job roles in the contract as the norm, rather than the exception.
Give below area wage and then be suprised pikachu when the hires are all retards.

Finally, hiring only felons for the labor roles. I've seen a company do this where I was hired in to do something as a contractor, and asked a few guys on the floor if I could use X, and the responses was generally, "FUCK THIS SHIT MAN, FUCK THIS COMPANY I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT". Granted, this was a company that got bought out by Indians so they took their retarded caste shit with them.

Edit: Having a "voluntary" staff turn/hire ratio of 90% a year.

 

[BLACKHAWK_Entropy]

There are many. What's your problem?

I want to employ someone who lives in another country. without putting them in trouble

 

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I want to employ someone who lives in another country. without putting them in trouble

I am not sure I get it correctly, so I'll try both scenarios I see:

1. You can't actually hire them without having yourself a presence in said country as a business.

In this case, there are companies who specialize in this, or platforms where you can pay freelancers. It's on their end as to whether they pay taxes and how the local payments are being structured. You contracted with a local entity, your responsibility ends there, nobody is technically on your payroll.

2. You want to make it so you can pay this person and allow them to avoid being declared or paying taxes by disguising the payment in some way.

If it's for a regular employment, you're probably more putting yourself in trouble with your local authorities than putting them in trouble.

There are already laws where you are (most likely), on who you can "employ" and what salary. I don't think that it is a smart choice for you to try and circumvents these laws. The state does not care about your friend, but they do care when you try and undermine the local economy and break or circumvent laws to do so.

If it's for a punctual project, you have more leeway, but then, it's best if the money does not come out of the company. The payment can be processed through whatever platform you want to, in many different forms, and justified in many different ways that will look fine on paper were you to be audited. Depending on the amount, they probably don't have to declare it.

 

[BLACKHAWK_Entropy]

If it's for a punctual project, you have more leeway, but then, it's best if the money does not come out of the company. The payment can be processed through whatever platform you want to, in many different forms, and justified in many different ways that will look fine on paper were you to be audited. Depending on the amount, they probably don't have to declare it.

can you specify more with this part? what do you also mean by punctual project too?

 

[rel=alternate]

can you specify more with this part? what do you also mean by punctual project too?

By punctual project, I mean not so recurrent and regular that you have plausible deniability. If you need to pay them 1.4K every month, go to option 3.

I'll give a couple of examples :

1.
Depending on the way you run your business, even if you can't get your VAT back, it might still be profitable for you to just pay them as a freelancer out of pocket under the table. So not acting as a company, but in your own name.

To do so, you could, for example, set up a personal project on whichever platform you know to have a low fee, post the job and select him for it. Then, you just need to adjust the payment to the fees you both have so that it matches whatever payment was expected. It can simple enough for him to deliver something and it will look overboard.

If they fall below a certain threshold of income, they probably don't even need to declare it as income. And even if they do, if the amount is low enough, nobody will ever care enough to try and find out.

2.
You could just buy them stuff. There is no law preventing you from making a gift to a friend, or paying back a gambling debt (may be taxable on his end depending on where he is).

I don't like it as much, because it's almost a one step differentiation, but it's not illegal. There also laws limiting the amounts you can gift people, although rarely applied unless talking tens of thousands.

3.
This one is the best if you really want to go the route of regular employment, or moving a lot of money. But it's risky if you don't know people, and even when you do know them. For this reason, it's more adapted to smaller quantities.

Let's say you live in America and I live in Peru, and you need to send me $2K.
You give $2.1K to this Peruvian dude named Pablo
Pablo tells someone in Peru about the transaction, and they give me $1.9K

It's extremely efficient, and absolutely impossible to detect whatsoever.

If, by any chance, you are dealing with Asians, I imagine you should be able to find someone to make it happen. Probably on the side of the recipient.

 

[Not a bee]

I've heard starting a business with your best friend is not a way to go, because eventually you'll both be fighting or disagreeing over something and then go on their separate ways. I could be very wrong though and it's just superstition.

 

[rel=alternate]

I've heard starting a business with your best friend is not a way to go, because eventually you'll both be fighting or disagreeing over something and then go on their separate ways. I could be very wrong though and it's just superstition.

It's right. 100% So is:

Starting a business with a sibling
Starting a business with a love interest
Starting a business with a friend
Starting a business with a friend of a friend
Starting a business with a brother in law

Etc...

The key take away is simple. If you are going to have partners, there cannot be an additional emotional blackmail element.

You can hate or disagree with your business partner all you want. In most cases, both still see how finding common ground is in their best interest.

If you add this personal element to the relationship, you will fuck it up. Eventually, no matter what. Being in business with people who are close to you is not a good thing. It prevents you from acting in your best interest, and if you do, it ruins your life.

 

[BLACKHAWK_Entropy]

If, by any chance, you are dealing with Asians, I imagine you should be able to find someone to make it happen. Probably on the side of the recipient.

now it doesn't look bad the way you described. but it sounds pretty shady when doing on mass scale. I guess I have to official it. Thanks. Le freelancing does sound le good option but you cant sue someone that way and feels unreliable for employee in case. Paying for EOR for every country is also bad, but having physical studio means restricting talents so i will pick my portion.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

I think there was a company that gassed an entire village in India by accident.

I think that was really bad, and I don't support what they did.

Bhopal killed Union Carbide, so it evens out.