ought to I rent an ex?
A reader writes:
My firm is beginning an enormous and complicated two-year venture. We marketed however after interviews we haven’t discovered an appropriate candidate for the place that’s most likely most important. Relatively than promote once more given the urgency, we’ve tapping our networks for candidates to interview.
One among my exes has the {qualifications} to be thought of, and final I spoke to him (a yr in the past), he was unemployed. We had a three-year relationship. I believed we had been heading for marriage (he didn’t, which was the precipitating issue and one of many causes we broke up). There was screaming, and we’ve been largely no-contact since, besides a number of instances we’ve run into one another randomly. These conversations have been … not “pleasant” precisely, however cordial. That was 4 years in the past, I’m over it, and he additionally appeared over it after we bumped into one another a yr in the past.
This can be a place I’ll have direct administration over, and must rely fairly closely on as it will likely be on-site for the venture whereas I might be largely off-site. Ought to I attain out to my ex to submit an utility for this place, or is that this a foul concept?
I reply this query — and two others — over at Inc. in the present day, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can read it here.
Different questions I’m answering there in the present day embody:
- My new colleague as soon as give up a job with me after only some months
- Is it okay to present references for 2 folks making use of for a similar job?