Lauren

True story ^

Slow down there chief. That haven't even been drafted yet nor played a down in the NFL. Let's wait and see how they pan out in the NFL

Our industry is different. It's not MLM or anything like it. You cant compare it to a normal company. I guess the training period is more like an unpaid internship or like you are going to school to get a degree. In training you arent actually an employee of the company either. Right now its my wife and I as employees of our company and we have 3 subcontractors for us. We treat people very fairly with respect and compensation. If it is one thing we both know its how to treat people (insert golf tickets joke here).

yikes you guys are losing all your starters.

I am going to wait a few weeks and then offer to take him and his wife out to dinner and try a different approach. No i will not pay to train someone. A person training isn't making the company any money and i would be taking away from my valuable time to train them. I can afford to pay a person x dollar amount because they are selling a lesson at x dollar and its paid for ahead of time. Not to mention i would pay to train someone and then watch them leave to a competitor after i have fully trained them. nah aint happening.

Well as an update to this thread, i reached out and sent him a message. He was extremely flattered that i would reach out to him and offer him a position but he politely declined and said he was happy with where he was for now. So this leads me to believe that i either should give up on him and move on or offer a position to his other team members and hope they come along over to me lol. So i will pursue the later action. Ideally i need one new female and one new male instructor. I know if i can get them to my studio the rest of the core students would follow them to me. What i do know is they are at a franchise which is all about selling and not really about dancing. We are the opposite and these young teachers i am trying to lure to me are focused on becoming better dancers which we can offer and support. We would also be paying them three times what they currently make. The problem i am having as these teachers have been brain washed into thinking the franchise system is the only way and a non franchise studio can't offer them anything, however they are losing their clients to us left and right. Oh the joys of trying to find staff. ANd to address what was said earlier, There are alot of people in columbus. I have placed several adds trying to hire. The problem is number one this generation is lazy. Training is 6-8 weeks to learn to start to become a teacher. Industry standard is training is not paid since we are investing alot of time and energy into you. SO trying to find one person to commit to that is a challenge. I'm trying to snipe a few active teachers so they can produce asap while i slowly train a few homegrown under me.

You sound depressed. Quit drinking first of all. Second you need to find something that stimulates you. Their are hobbies that don't cost a lot and their are hobbies that costs a ton of money. Hobbies quickly turn into obsessions so pick something realistic. If you pick something you can't afford you will be right back to being depressed but now it will be compounded. What are you lacking in life? How's your relationship with your wife and daughter? Perhaps you need nor quality time with both of them. Shameless plug, ever thought of ballroom dancing it's seriously one of the most stimulating activities a person could do either by yourself or with your wife.

I contracted for a studio here back in 2011 when I lived here part time. They actually had a good non compete, although it wasn't exactly a non compete. They had it as if you leave here and take any clients we will sue you for say $2000 per client you take from us. They knew you couldn't stop someone from teaching but they could sue you for loss of revenue.

This local studio already hates me as I have taken their main clientele over the last year. Infact this teacher I am trying to recruit would be able to teach his old students under My roof. With him coming over to me it would put the nail in the coffin for this studio locally. My sales numbers would increase 100% or more with him teaching for me. It's the next step our business has to take to stay on track to what our business plan projects.

Non competes don't hold in my industry.

Question for you guys regarding employment. What is the proper etiquette for trying to steal an employee from one company and coming to work for my company. Is there any rules to this sort of thing? I really want to steal a dance teacher from a local studio and have them come work for me. Should I just message him directly and offer to chat about making a switch? Am I breaking some unwritten code? I haven't been in this position before so thought I'd pick you'll brains.

As of now the 16th I'm free. So that works for me. I would prefer the Polaris location for BWW or Morse road and cherry bottom in gahanna. Also open to Roosters or QSL at Polaris.

Fat outdoors men need not apply.

Pick a date to get together at a BWW sometime in January ( not the weekend of 9th or 21) or in February to have some wings and beer. The first $50 of the bill is on me with what Orion paypal'd me. Everyone is welcome to come

Holy shit TCU

I would say so. Just goes to show you how over rated that conference was.

No i don't owe him anything

Arkansas and Oregon here

It's to bad Michigan played Florida. Florida was garbage after Grier was suspended. Hell Tennessee is better then Florida. We could have went 4-0 vs B1G teams this year. I hope Arkansas throttles K St later. SEC west dominated every opponent is this year bowl games. Well except T A&M. Thanks assholes

Georgia is roll'n. Looking good for me SEC SEC SEC

Not looking to good for you. Come on Georgia!!

Targeting should only be helmet to helmet. If a defender wants to bull rush and use the crown of his helmet and ram into a dudes chest or core that's up to him. Good way to fuck your neck up. It was a bullshit call.

I mean it's SEC vs B1G. Not that surprising

Tennessee is dismantling the mighty B1G northwestern. Just need Florida or Georgia to come through to win that bet.

Touchdown Irish!!