Evan,

>I think that husband/wife teams can feed off each other in a negative way. Have you ever seen one work well?<

Gary and I are not married, so maybe it doesn't count, but we live together and marriage in our case would just be a "legal thing". We've been working together for more than 5 years and we make a great team. No bickering, no arguing, no soap operas, no circus acts.

Personally, I don't think the problems you speak of have got much to with the fact they were a husband/wife team as it does to the fact that their relationship probably wasn't all that good. You'll see this in companies where certain employees just have bad interpersonal relationships for whatever reason.

~~Bonnie




>> Then the boss' wife started working there. Right away there were problems with her which culminated in her telling us how incompetent we were and how we should all be let go for outsourcing to India. This was the last straw for several of us and they ended up losing ~25 years of experience in less than 6 months. I heard from my former co-workers that after we all left, corporate did another investigation but this time they didn't let the boss run it: the boss' wife was forced to "resign" about a week later
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>We've had two husband/wife teams. One is currently with us is a demorlizing circus act. A previous husband/wife team were in mgt positions and created tons of their own damage, thankfully after the wife left, the husband has behaved himself. I think that husband/wife teams can feed off each other in a negative way. Have you ever seen one work well?