I’ve been getting into outsourcing and hiring employees since December of last year. Hired my first person as a programmer a week before Xmas. I was participating in stackman’s thread and got some good info from him and John Jonas.

http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread.php?12744-Follow-me-as-i-hire-my-1st-outsourced-employee!

Since, then I’ve added a couple more people – a writer, SEO person.

It’s been an interesting learning experience, with some upsides and some unforeseen downsides which will take me in a new direction of outsourcing work.

This week my programmer didn’t show up to work. After two months, the guys just went MIA. Tried to call his phone, and waited for some contact, but no answer. Last time he had some technical difficulty, he went to an Internet cafe and Skyped me from there. So I was expecting the same. But after 3 days, there has been no contact.

I think he either got another job, or some other emergency happened. Right now, I’m at 60% new j ...

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