Yesterday Andy advised me that FICO,(an ex customer of ours), has poached a QC staff of ours from NL to their facility.
He has allegedly been offered a rise in salary and has handed in his notice yesterday.
We only have 3 QC at NL and so now we need to recruit a replacement quickly.
They are not highly salaried staff but I never support increasing salaries to staff who resign, they show their lack of loyalty by resigning so I let them go.
More importantly I want to send a strong signal to FICO to not steal our staff.
I have told Andy to enquire who is their best QC guy at FICO and what is his salary.
We will then approach him and offer him a job at NL (to replace the one they stole from us).
We will offer him same salary but we will offer him a sign on bonus of one month salary, cash.
One of two things will happen.
1.Either he will accept and we fill the vacancy and inconvenience FICO or
2.He will tell his boss at FICO that he has been offered the cash and FICO will pay him the same to keep him.
Either way it inconveniences FICO, they either lose a staff or lose cash.
It will teach them to stay away from our guys.