What Alex said. Unfortunately, I've had to do this a couple of time, and it is never easy. But it is much worse to let the situation drag on. All of Alex's points are spot-on.
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]>wrote: > I've thankfully only had to do this twice in 6 years, but it sucked both > times. > > Here's some tips: > > 1) Do it in person whenever he next comes in. Don't do it over the phone > or email, or wait. > 2) Don't do it alone. If you have a business partner, or another "senior" > member who is willing to be present for the conversation, it will help a > lot. > 3) Be firm and clear. Remember that he's the one who's done something > wrong, not you. > 4) You're not asking him to leave, you're telling him. Avoid giving > options, that opens the door for questions and more abuse. > 5) Through all of this, do your best to remain calm and most of all, > human. > > In my experience there's not much that can shake your confidence as much > as this process, but NOT doing something is 100000x worse. > > Keep the fact that your good, upstanding members have your back in mind at > all times. You're doing this for them. > > -Alex > > > > -- > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Robert Petrusz < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We have a member who is way behind on his membership dues and is not >> interested in making payments to catch up. I think I need to evict him from >> the space. (This is a very sad duty, btw.) >> >> He seems to keep coming by.... and has left a lot of stuff here in the >> past that has cluttered up the space to an extent that we got complaints >> from other members. >> >> Anybody have advice/experience with the process of evicting or kicking >> out a member? >> >> Thanks, >> R >> >> :-( >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- twb member, Workantile <http://workantile.com/> @twbrandt -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
