Hiring and firing?

[22_22]

Where do you hire staff for your site and have you ever had to fire a staff member? How well did he or she take it and how did you break 'the news' to them? Did they end up staying on the forum after being relieved of their duties or did they not take it well at all and went out to cause trouble after this?

 

[Xyphien]

I only hire people from my own forum, find active members and message them personally. For firing, I simply tell them they are relieved from their duties. Most cases it's from inactivity so they tend not to hop back on once they realize they have been de-ranked.

 

[Jason1]

I have hired members from their contribution to the forum. I haven't relieved anyone till now.

 

[Martee]

Well we've had to fire a staff member here at WGBB, took it surprisingly well despite his past attitude on the site but no, he isn't a member here anymore. As for hiring, I try to hire in-community (Sylar is sort of an example of that ) but sometimes you find good people outside of the forum so I always try to look outside as well as internally..

 

[xpl0iter]

Hiring the right staff is very difficult. No one knows how its going to end. So yes I would prefer a staff who is currently active on my forums. But hey like Haze said, there could be awesome people who haven't joined the forum yet.

Now firing is the hardest part. I never knew how I should handle it!