&gt; How many hours per week are you spending helping him? And how long have you been helping him?<p>Probably 1&#x2F;4 to 1&#x2F;2 of my working day every day. We&#x27;re a small company, ~7 ppl, I&#x27;m the CEO. I&#x27;m not a great designer, but some of the stuff he&#x2F;she sends back is just amateurish. It ends up mostly-amateurish-but-shippable if I spend forever with him on it, but other designers I&#x27;ve worked with in the past have delivered much higher quality stuff for much less, and with way less headache. I think it may just be a sheer talent thing at this point, and I don&#x27;t know how to instill talent.<p>&gt; based on what?
People I&#x27;ve worked with in the past, including the person I&#x27;m going to hire to replace this person. I guess you&#x27;ll just have to trust me on that though.<p>I recognize we hired a decent performer when we wanted a top performer. If you know a way to unilaterally avoid that I&#x27;m all ears. And yes, I am willing to pay for a top performer.<p>What I am not looking forward to now is actually firing this person.