Be decisive. I walked in an
office once — the only time
I’ve ever done it — and I had
heard one of the ladies in
this five-person office had
gone on and on to say what a
lousy company we were,
how we stunk.
I don’t think this woman
knew who we were. I visited that office, and it was
kind of interesting. It’s not
like drums are rolling or
anything. I drive up in a
rented car, knock on the
front door, go in and say,
‘Hi, I’m Peter Vosotas.’ They
kind of know I’m coming.
It’s not like people have to
stand at attention.
So, I usually go and I have
with me as much information about each, in this case
four individuals, of them —
their latest review, their current pay grade, when they
started, comments that their
immediate manager has
made about them. In this
case, I knew about this
Carol, if you will, and she
told me to my face that the
company was terrible. I fired
her on the spot.
I just said, ‘If that’s the case,
you should leave right now.’
She looked at me funny, and I
said, ‘No, you should leave
right now. This isn’t a pretend
statement.’ This is like, I
pulled the trigger, and the
bullet is out of the chamber.
That’s part of the whole business of being able to do it.
You’ve got to be compassionate, but when you say, ‘Go’
it’s got to be, ‘Go.’
I knew going in she was a
lippy person. She had, if you
will, the total disregard for
me — ‘I don’t care if you are
the president or you are the
founder or you and your wife
spent three years building
this company and taking no
pay and literally had everything you had on the line.’ I
mean, not that I’m going to
walk around wearing that
Seabee on my chest, but I
looked at that as like this is
an insane affront.
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