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Originally posted by bigwagon:
I'm struggling to understand why someone would think any business owner would agree to that arrangement? What does the business stand to get out of it? A couple of months of unskilled labor for free or low cost is not very enticing to begin with, especially knowing they will leave as soon as they become somewhat productive.

re the train your replacement,

when I was in the grocery biz years ago, this was the norm,
you built a bench of qualified dept heads etc and made sure they were well trained,

made it easier to get a vacation etc, for all,


things changed before I left (over 10 yrs ago) and now not even the DM's do that, they are are directed by committee on who to place where and little to no input from a Store Manager,


years before that, I was an apprentice meat cutter, then worked up to dept management,
we , using a similare apprenticeship, trained a lot of meat cutters, some stayed, some left to go to other companies, (following a better paycheck, not always worth it) , so I did train a lot of my competition, in that reqards,

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

Those approaching me have flat out stated that they intend to compete against me.

That was pretty stupid of them but, at least, they were honest.

I have an ex-co-worker who did just that. She was a food scientist but wanted to run a small business. She worked for free at several coffee shops to learn. She then went to start a neighborhood coffee shop in a business neighborhood that had no coffeeshop. Interestingly enough, she's still going close to 20 years.