when your awful coworker is the boss’s kid
There are a lot of perks to being the boss: You can (often) set your own hours, delegate work you don’t enjoy, get a nicer office, and dine out on the company dime. But in some workplaces, being the boss also means being able to hire your adult children — often to the detriment of the rest of your team.
The problems with hiring one’s grown offspring are probably obvious: other employees assume they weren’t hired on merit, people are nervous to speak freely around them, and they’re frequently not held to the same standard as everyone else. They end up getting special treatment — or, regardless of the reality, everyone else will assume that’s happening.
At Slate today, I wrote about what can happen when the boss hires family members. You can read it here.
