Vacation mode for tough calls

The $10KEmployee.

Every employee has a price. Cancun Dan helps small-business owners find the real cost of a problem—and decide what to do next.

Anonymous submissions. Direct answers. No HR fog.

Employee cost file

Case 010K — the chronic callout

Estimated annual drag

$47K

17 callouts. Client reschedules. More owner time spent covering the gaps.

The verdict

This is a management problem before it becomes a hiring problem.

Next moveCoach with a deadline

Keep, coach, or fire?

One question. A better next move.

The point is not to turn every employee issue into a termination. It is to stop expensive drift, have the right conversation, and know when a replacement system is actually the better investment.

The Cancun Dan method

Get out of the fog.

  1. 01

    Tell the story

    Send the employee situation that is keeping you up at night. Names stay out of it.

  2. 02

    See the cost

    Turn callouts, rework, missed revenue, and owner time into a number worth acting on.

  3. 03

    Make the call

    Get the next move: keep, coach, or replace—with practical language for the conversation.

When replacement is the answer

Replace the role. Not your whole life.

The Employee Replacement System handles the diagnosis, job description, recruiting, screening, interviews, and the first 90 days—so you can get back to running the business.

Discuss your role

5–50

employee teams

Where one wrong seat becomes an owner-level problem fast.

Practical, not precious

Scripts, scorecards, and a clear plan for the next hard conversation.

Business owner court is open

Tell us about your worst employee problem.

We will help you uncover what it is really costing you—and whether the next move is to keep, coach, or replace.