Sep
16
Employee stole clients / phone list?
By
tdhraf@sbcglobal.net questioned:
I have had a gymnastics business for over 2 years. A lady that I hired when we opened recently deceived me Huge TIME!
I just found out that back in March she started giving private gymnastic lessons at her church, she said she didn’t want to have to split her fee with the gym so she took students to her church secretly. These lessons were given to students that she was teaching in glass at my gym. She continued to work for me until June.
I found out that she took our students list home (a list of all students with their phone numbers). I questioned her to return the list and she stated that she lost it.
Now she is teaching several students from our gym (at half the cost they would pay us). She has now chose to do regular gym classes at her church. She makes all her students pay in cash. She will not accept checks. She has no business license or liability insurance. She pays NOTHING to her church.
What can I do? She has used my student list to call and get people to come to her.
I have had a gymnastics business for over 2 years. A lady that I hired when we opened recently deceived me Huge TIME!
I just found out that back in March she started giving private gymnastic lessons at her church, she said she didn’t want to have to split her fee with the gym so she took students to her church secretly. These lessons were given to students that she was teaching in glass at my gym. She continued to work for me until June.
I found out that she took our students list home (a list of all students with their phone numbers). I questioned her to return the list and she stated that she lost it.
Now she is teaching several students from our gym (at half the cost they would pay us). She has now chose to do regular gym classes at her church. She makes all her students pay in cash. She will not accept checks. She has no business license or liability insurance. She pays NOTHING to her church.
What can I do? She has used my student list to call and get people to come to her.
Sue and report her to the IRS
Check with a lawyer to see what can be done about it.
WOW, this is a tough one. First, work on your customers. Send them a We Want You Back letter; and outline why they may have left. For example. Question “Did you find a “better” deal? Question yourself this, do they have liability insurance to cover your injuries if something were to happen? Do they accept checks or do they make you pay cash and “can’t” give you a receipt? Do they have a person with a Masters degree in PE that oversees each and every curriculum and preforms regular class reviews?
Hope you see where I am going.
You COULD try to sue, but winning that type of suit is very hard. How do you prove what you lost due to her behavior?
Trust me, Karma will burn her in the tush. Keep being honest and the best.