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Hiring Family & Friends

What is everyone's opinion on hiring family and/or friends and why? I've heard both negative and positive reasoning from both ends and wanted to throw it out there for you all to weigh in.
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Re:Hiring Family & Friends by nextmoveone on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @06:58PM (#57109)
Friends, maybe. Family, NO! Why? Because family always expects you to forgive them, family expects you to always be there for them no matter how much they screw up and family will freeload on this for as long as possible.
Re:Hiring Family & Friends by jsjenkins168 on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @09:27PM (#57151)
It depends on your relationship with your family. What you describe is not always the case.