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It's easy. My employee handbook, should I ever get to that stage, shall read:

1) Be honest. 2) Don't be a dipshit. 3) If you have a problem with something, ask.




As your number of staff increases, you'll find that you need to be more explicit. Real world people are complex creatures, and managing them isn't simple. What defines 'being a dipshit', for example? For some, it's being a pedant. For others, it's being slow to learn. Others think it's about obnoxiousness. Besides, rules like "fraudulent timesheets are a fireable offense" make it explicitly clear that 'we check these things', and avoid the 'but I didn't know it was wrong' excuses that you will hear with enough employees, commonsense be damned.


True but such is life. You make up for it by always giving people a chance first. You never fire on the first sign of dipshittiness.




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