[Mrs Nicholls]

Hi Everyone
I don't know what to do, i'm at my wits end with my biz partner, shes driving me mad, not wearing company uniform, not turning up to cleints, who then ring me and complain. Not putting her share of the work/efforts in etc.
It's her birthday today and has decided that the world revolves around her and hasn't gone to a client who she siad she was going to the morning, she switched off her phone and i haven't heard from her since.
This is the last straw.
Is there anyway i can sack her? well buy her out or something to get rid, she things she can do whatever she likes as shes 'the boss', she just treats me like her boss, and not a mate anymore, and swans around, its not as if we have other cleaners to cover for us at the moment, we are on our own.
What can i do??

She's driving me mad

[*Chris Browne]

Hi Lisa,

First thing first, what have you got drawn up in writing that would tell you that you both own an equal share in the company?, i presume the company is registered in both names, if this is the case and you can no longer go on working with each other then you need to sit down with her and thrash it out amically with her otherwise you need to seek legal advice, remember if you cant run a business now at this early stage then is it really going to survive in say five-ten years from now??, you need to tell her exactly what you think and also your plans for the future of your business and ask her if she as the same vision as you, sit down with her and sort out who is doing what in the company and see if the workload is really 50-50!......remember what i said many moons ago....DONT WORK WITH FAMILY OR FRIENDS!!!...IT DONT WORK!....(just my opinion mind )


Chris

[angela carlton]

Obviously, we don't know of any formal arrangement you have ,if indeed any exists, in any case, if some one, whether an employee, or partner behaves in such a way that suggests, they have no intention of honouring an agreement, they have, in effect, terminated that agreement.

Change your business name. Inform your clients of the change and the reasons and employ someone to cover your workload.

Your previous relationship is history and should be buried.

Good luck

angie

[Fast 1 *]

kill her

[pdl]

Fast one,

This lady needs help not stupid comments.

[Timmy Boy]

Lisa
I can relate to your situation to a certain extent.
What you need to do (and what I had to do) was confront your business partner. It will be hard because she is a mate but you need to think, can I afford to lose customers, get a bad reputation for unreliability and look like a bunch of cowboys. If you can afford to see this happen then why did you start the biz in the first place? It will be hard but you need to write everything down that she is not doing & then read them out to her. Don't put any nicey nicey's in like I am sure that you don't mean to be like this etc etc. You make it punchy & simple. If she tells you to poke it then it will make the whole thing easier with regard to disolving the partnership. If she realises that she has made some serious errors then problem solved. Either way you need to deal with it & deal with it now! You never know she might suprise you nd not even know how unreliable she has become.
Hope this helps
Regards
Tim

[Lesley J]

I was in the very same position a few years ago, we had an agreement, but she was not sticking to it,I confronted her, she more or less laughed in my face, I bought a new company off the shelf from companies house, set up a new bank account, then went to see all the clients over a weekend or hand delivered a letter, telling them of a change of company name, informed my partner she was sacked. 3 times she tried to sue for unfair dismissal, loss of earnings and distress etc, etc, and 3 times it was thrown out of court, I have never looked back, I will never take on another partner, I would rather pay for extra help.. go for it, best of luck.. Lesley

[Mrs Nicholls]

Hi Everyone
Thank you for your help, we have had a massive arguement, but it cleared the air between us, we have an appointment with a solicitor to get our agreement checked, as its informal but signed by us. She has worn her uniform all week ! and hasn't complained once about the job, but just got on with it and we are getting on better now. She apologised to me and the customer she let down on Tuesday, and has declared that things will change from now on, She's even taken to arranging the rotas, i'm quite taken a back with the new found effort she has put in since we had the bust up. I think she needs more responsibility. We are having a complete company review next month as it's our 1 year anniversary, so changes will be made, hopefully this will help us in the long run.
Everyone has been in bad tempers this week, i think the weather didn't help matters.
Thanks xx