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The advice is even worse. Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215737

• samename 5y ago
  How so?
  • znpy 5y ago
    See my other reply to the post itself -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215737
• hodgesrm 5y ago
  Could you be more specific? Having a non-confrontational conversation to get what you need and figuring out how to reduce the dependency on a key employee are pretty obvious tactics. If there's anything "bad" about this advice, it's that adopting the detached attitude necessary for such conversations is hard when you are stressed about the situation yourself. My coping mechanism is to be relentlessly positive that things will work out but that clearly does not work for everyone. (Including me, sometimes.)
  • znpy 5y ago
    See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215737
    • hodgesrm 5y ago
      The useful advice is in the second half of the answer. Your comment seems to be fixating on just one part of the response.
• MyHypatia 5y ago
  How is the advice worse? The advice is acknowledging the reality that employees can always leave whether for other job opportunities or family reasons or just because. As a business owner, you need to plan for that reality. Having the expectation that your employees will never leave you for other things is unrealistic and unhealthy. The employer makes it clear that the employee does a great job. The only complaint the business owner seems to have is that the employee isn't in a desperate financial situation and thus has control over her life decisions.
  • fzzzy 5y ago
    "The only complaint the business owner seems to have is that the employee isn't in a desperate financial situation and thus has control over her life decisions." This is the sad situation we are in presently.