no matter how well you think you know someone, meeting them in person, face to face is something you should always do before agreeing to hire them, hang out with them, date them, etc.
I hired someone a few weeks ago based on an online friendship, never having met the said person. I should have done a formal interview, I should have met him in person not once but probably a few times before actually hiring him, because I think I would have found out our personalities didn't mesh quite as well as they did online.
And today I had to let him go after only working with him for a few hours but those few hours told me many things and my gut instinct tells me many things as well. A few comments that I personally didn't like whether or not he said he was joking, did not come across that way to me. This is my company and I will not be made to feel bad because I scattered or late all the time. The reason I started a company - I can do what I want to do when I want to do it.
If I had meet him in person before hiring him, I think I would have probably realized his sense of humor and mine don't mesh, or that my scattered thoughts just don't work for him or many other things. I should have just said no when he asked for an advance - that should have been my clue not to hire him in the first place or to stop the process. I am truly sorry that I put him through hiring him and letting him go in the same 24 hr period but I am not responsible for the way his girlfriend feels. I am not responsible for truly disappointing his girlfriend (actually I'm not sure why his girlfriend even comes into play here).
I honestly do wish him the best of luck finding a job and her the best of luck of not feeling truly disappointed. I'm sure that I lost two online friends but maybe that's why they have always just been online friends, that's all they were meant to be, nothing more, nothing in RL.
Hindsight is 20/20, now i know better, I will always do a formal interview and a 2nd interview and probably a third interview before I offer anyone a job in the future.
11:21:34 PM 
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