What to do when your business sales are declining and your employee is demanding a raise

[CorporateCowboy]

Originally Posted by Siberiaboy

Do you give the employee the raise on a credit card debt just to give employee demanded raise? Or would you
say no ? Employee has also declined in productivity and says a second pay raise will fix it

You explain to employee you are bound to run out of money at current rate and that you are free to leave for another comparable job as we can’t afford to pay your second raise.

Employee said “I don’t give a sh**** I want a f**in raise or I’m going to purposely slack off on the job , steal , and you’ll be sorry. You are supposed to give raises

What type of employment/business is this? It sounds like Dumb and Dumber i.e. a second pay-raise will fix it (and a boss who would consider it), lol. Why doesn't the employee simply demonstrate what he's worth by stepping up to the plate (perhaps relative to an agreed upon bonus based in re: demonstrable performance); or better yet, find a new job where he is paid what (he thinks) he is worth rather than exhibiting a temper tantrum/threats and proving otherwise without question.

Originally Posted by artillery77

Pimpin be rough man.

Too funny. Maybe it can be the employee's new job; he could slack-off all he wants and steal as well.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

We wouldn't have gotten this far. The employee would have been fired when he started showing up for work an hour late.

[skeddy]

Forget the employee, think more about what you're going to do next cuz you really aren't operating a business...

Using credit cards to pay employees? lmao

[harry chickpea]

Think about it -

"Gee, I can't afford it, and as a matter of fact I am going to have to REDUCE wages to stay solvent. I'll try to keep you on, but guess you are going to have to quit and look elsewhere if you need more. Sorry."

Voluntary quits don't get unemployment racked against the business, so the business doesn't suffer.

Otherwise, employee goes to unemployment and says "All I did was ask for a raise and he fired me!!!" More pay, don't have to work. An old scam.