1. the project slips while you expect your new hire to work, and they don't deliver.
2. opportunity cost of actually hiring someone good - by the time you've realized you've made a mistake, a good person is off the market.
3. you actually have to pay a bad hire for their time. you can't just not pay them. that's cold hard cash out the door.
4. everyone on the team starts wondering, how the hell did this guy make it through this process? are we being run by idiots?
5. if the hire is remote in another state, you have to register your business with their tax authorities, and deal with that whole payroll rigamarole.
6. also health insurance bullshit.
7. setting up accounts, changing passwords/keys when they get canned.
8. actually firing them is not fun unless you are a total sociopath, or they are actively causing damage by destroying value (which is extremely rare -- most people will just silently not do a fucking thing for weeks on end).
9. worrying about a lawsuit because ironically, people who cause damage like to threaten these things.
this is on top of your already full workload of doing actual, productive things for actual paying customers and good employees.
2. opportunity cost of actually hiring someone good - by the time you've realized you've made a mistake, a good person is off the market.
3. you actually have to pay a bad hire for their time. you can't just not pay them. that's cold hard cash out the door.
4. everyone on the team starts wondering, how the hell did this guy make it through this process? are we being run by idiots?
5. if the hire is remote in another state, you have to register your business with their tax authorities, and deal with that whole payroll rigamarole.
6. also health insurance bullshit.
7. setting up accounts, changing passwords/keys when they get canned.
8. actually firing them is not fun unless you are a total sociopath, or they are actively causing damage by destroying value (which is extremely rare -- most people will just silently not do a fucking thing for weeks on end).
9. worrying about a lawsuit because ironically, people who cause damage like to threaten these things.
this is on top of your already full workload of doing actual, productive things for actual paying customers and good employees.