This is going to end in divorce. It will be fine. He doesn't need to spend his life with a crazy person on a hair trigger.

NTA. I understand the motivation behind hiring your wife. After all, who can you trust more than your partner. However in my experience, this arrangement rarely work out unless the couple is able to compartmentalize, drawing a line between their professional and personal relationship. This is easier said than done, even for highly trained and experienced professionals.

NEVER WORK WITH FAMILY. Do not hire family. Do not be hired by family. Work and family need to be separate relationships.

This is why you don't work with your spouse or SO....especially if it's a situation of the business being established way before the relationship started.

I worked for a florist. When the husband was there, he never even bothered us. We knew what to do. When 'the wife' was there it all went to hell. She had no idea what we did. One day the owner came down from his office, and I was inside the cooler cleaning windows. There were flower deliveries that needed to be cleaned and put away, outgoing orders that needed address verification, and to be wrapped. The man was upset and wondered why I was cleaning windows. The wife said, 'we'll sell more if they're sparkling'. He yelled at her for putting me on that particular task, when we had actual sales to satisfy. She hated me after that. For following her order. My boyfriend worked there too. We would take the bus together and sit in a little park before work. My bf would walk down to the shop and come back to tell me if 'the wife' was there. One day, he said 'she's there' and I burst into tears. He sent me home, and we both quit that day. I got a great job the next day.

Why did this person have to put this online? Sort out your life in your own home.

Wow, this woman sounds very self-entitled.

The dude(Ette?) who said YTA for not firing her was right. His response was too weak, and what she did will have a negative impact on trust with the other employees for years. She needs to go.

he should have fired the bitch

Your wife should be fired, she is clearly not fit to have employees, and thinks that she is a co-boss. Some spouses should not work together.

My hubby has owned a very successful business since long before we met. We decided that when the kids started school, I would work FOR him. We had a discussion before I started, the substance was that there can only be one boss. He started the business before I came around, he has created and run this successfully before I came around. He said would listen to my suggestions, ideas etc. but he would make the final decision. If any business acrimony started to affect our marriage, I would no longer work FOR him. We made the decision to work together, and that we would never let it come between us and our marriage. We had this discussion BEFORE I started working for him. I have been working for him for about 10 years now without issue. Most of the time he agrees with my suggestions and likes my ideas but I know when to step back and respect his decision even if it goes against my opinion. I am now indispensable to him and his business, there are many things he can't do without me.

Firethebitch and think about a divorce. You might lose some money, but she is not worth the effort.

Now you know why they tell you not to employ family, don't you. But now you have an insight into her personality that maybe you didn't have before. There is still time to ditch her..

My family doesn't own the business, but my mom, sister, and I all work together in a pizza buffet restaurant. On some occasions, my mom is the manager and she treats us like she would treat any other employee. She doesn't go on power trips and works really hard.

that s why u shouldn t have a relationship with people u work with or vice versa

Great story about your Karen wife, dude! Also, kinda weird how that first picture is a Karen yelling at the black employee who's apparently begging her?

NTA He asked her to leave the room, politely, THREE times. He's not doing some medieval "I'm the man, do what I say" thing - it's literally his business, and he's literally the boss.

This is why husband and wives don't or can't work together in a position of power. What can be done if you want to save your marriage in my opinion is have a meeting and go over some rules and set some boundaries. She is not to cross any lines that deal with employees. Make no exceptions. As stated previously, had it been someone else you would have fired them. It's hard working with a spouse and then going or coming home to them, choices to be made 😠

work in the same place with someone you know (regardless who is) is never a good idea...

NTA,BUT, your wife needs to understand she is not your wife at work and she is not above the others. She is low seniority and a stunt like that you should possibly considering letting her go. She made your loyal employee cry ffs

NTA but will become the A88hole if he doesn't divorce her. This is just bad all around

1. If she doesn't want to sleep with you, she can go to the doghouse. Her decision 2. If you are a couple, this decision are to be made together: "Ok honey, now you go and act pissed with the client for the time he make us loose, then I enter and I sweet-talk him in paying a part of the overhead", not going behind your back for something you didn't want her to do.

About once a year my wife approaches the topic of now nice it would be if we worked together. She is a very smart and capable person, and I think I am too, but our approaches are wildly different. No way in hell would it work, and it surprises me that for as smart as she is she doesn't realize that this would be our future. Why screw up our marriage?

Is his wife’s name Karen?

ESH: he spent so much time telling us why he's so much more important than his wife while saying it's unrelated. Of course it's related b/c it showed us how important and awesome he thinks he is while she is just a wife and can't get a decent job. He thinks he is so superior to her and it shows. Two employees fought b/c one employee thought they were the boss b/c they're married to the boss. She was so far out of line, she should be fired. He screamed at an employee in front of another employee and handled it so poorly. Her best bet is to apologize and find a job someone else where she'll understand her place as an employee.