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Is it appropriate for me to ask an employee about their personal finances, try and dig into it to understand what to pay them in the situation that I did buy this person's book of business in exchange for them having a job, steady income.

All right. Before we dive into that, and I'll defer to George on this one, but I'm curious,

is there not a market value range of salary that you already aware of? And then are you asking

this question in the context of that? In other words,

you know the range of what the market says you should pay somebody with his or his or her

experience and skill, or are you just sticking your thumb in the air?

So I have a general idea, and it's a lot less than what they're getting paid right now.

Um, but I also know that they're, have a lot of personal debt from their business line that we purchased.

Um, I know the person has a friend, you know, now we're just work colleagues, you know,

or there's not really too much friendship, But the answer is I do know. Okay.

It's kind of a struggle to keep a good workplace and make sure that they are in a sense

taken care of also because I'm, you know, I'm weaning them off right now. I'm weaning them off

being used to be able to live frivolously. When you said you bought the book of business,

did you write them a check?

How did that go down?

No, so I actually acquired it for free.

So it's actually we had a document drafted that pretty much gave us the book of business

in exchange for their employment guaranteed for six months.

What do they get out of this?

So they get a job, essentially.

They get a job.

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