What would you do???

[Squirrel 87]

Thanks everyone who has reply. It s made my choice much clearer:thumbup:

[Stubby]

We are here to serve !!!!!

[Squirrel 87]

We are here to serve !!!!!

 

Great people and Steve bullman a legand!

[PeteB]

Is that a chicken legand?

[Minotaur]

Get your gear back and go it alone. But I would not burn your bridges! Once he has got used to the idea, he may still need you, and so pass you work etc.

 

Good luck.

[easy-lift guy]

Pretty much agree with everyone else's opinion, except when you do make the move and your girlfriend ask about why be honest with her and agree with her opinion. I believe she has both of your best interest in mind.

easy-lift guy

[geoff]

Go on your own,keep it calm & just do your own thing.

I can see this not being an easy run for you,your relative sounds very controling from what you have said,& sometimes these people dont let go too easy.

So tread careful,try not to do or say anything that could look antagonistic,& go about your own busines nice & quietly.

[Tom2020]

Tell him to do one!!!

 

I've had it off my mother-in-law for the last 3 Years, You need a real job how can you live blah blah blah. Really dose get on my pip sometimes. Im happy what i do day in day out and make a good living from it.

[Andy Collins]

I do not know the OPs circumstances, and I only have his viewpoint to guide me, and each individual case is completely different. So it's very hard to give advice on this. Lets look at this from another perspective.

I set up in business, I employ staff including family members, to do work for me. I struggle when there is no work, but I make sure they are paid, even if I go without. I pay them the best I can afford, I supply vehicles and chippers so they can go to work, and make me money. I supply training as and when to enhance them, so they are more productive. Then a relative, who is possibly my best employee, phones me up out of the blue, to tell me he's leaving to set up in direct competition with me, probably taking some of my clients with him? Should I wish him all the best, a friendly pat on the back, or should I have it out with him face to face, knowing that I'm so wound up I might just lose my temper with the ungrateful so and so?

Now what do you say, a different side, a different angle to the same issue. Who is wrong and who is right?

A hairdresser I know did her training at a salon, when qualified she started "poaching" clients from her boss, then set up her own salon 4miles away. She is being taken to task for breach of contract, for approaching and poaching clients, and for setting up a business within a ten mile radius of her employer, without leaving a gap of one year. She is convinced this will finish her. I think she should have read her contract of employment a little earlier.