How to Fire Friends
They were there at the start when you needed them. But now you don’t. This won’t be easy
GEORGETTE BLAU HIRED A FRIEND TO help her growing business. It was easy. A few years into her building On Location Tours, a sightseeing business with brands including the Sopranos Tour, it was still a relatively small operation in New York City, with four full-time employees and about 16 part-time guides. As the company expanded, Blau decided to bring on someone to help with operations. “She had a great personality and a lot of energy and worked in tourism, and she understood a lot about operations,” she says.
Blau soon realized she’d made the wrong decision. The friend began making unauthorized charges on the company credit card—not for herself, but not budgeted either.
