How to Hire Bad Employees

Tell me if you’ve heard this story before. We got really busy and hired a new employee and assumed since the economy was down that we could find some really good folks. Turns out the person we hired didn’t stick around and didn’t do a very good job.


If you want to keep doing this, here’s how:

• Never ever start recruiting for a position until you are absolutely overwhelmed.

• As for the interview, just wing it. Do not ever prepare for the interview process.

• Hire the first warm body that you come across. Never check out any of the referrals.

• Never ever spend any time with the new employee. To train them, just have them follow your most mediocre employee around for a half day or so.



So if you are tired of hearing basically what not to do, just do the opposite of everything suggested.



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