5 Ways to Tell How Well a Potential Employer Would Treat You as an Employee

[KurtNYC]

91. In my experience you can wind up in the middle of a family fight, daily.

There are long-standing sibling rivalries, and bottle necks that form when family members are passive aggressive or just plain incompetent. One exception was a ski resort which was family owned that I worked for. The father and his first 4 kids were in charge and the kids had different divisions -- operations, advertising, hospitality. They hired competent people and let them do what they were paid to do. The business ran well and produced mega profit. They had dozens of grandkids who were surprisingly well behaved in spite of the money and the fact that they could do almost anything they wanted every day at their family's ski resorts, hotels and restaurants.

Another was a family that owned 2 high end restaurants on the East Side of Manhattan. Their IT specialist (owner's daughter) insisted that Gateway computers were in some way very different than other Windows desktops of the day. She was sort of superstitious about how the LAN worked and would have us all re-boot (and count to 30) if something didn't print from the shared printer. But the worst of it was the screaming fights between family members.