[GTX63]

If you have employees then you should have their duties spelled out for them so you are not tied up handling ticky tack issues all day.
Yes, I have made offers to people working for others that I knew were trying to better themselves. Your not forcing them to leave their boss, you just giving them options. In some instances, the benefit package (read that insurance) will outweight the pay rate.

 

[GTX63]

Dobe if you are all bite then you better start chewing. I'm far from a task master; I am a macro manager. So, I lay out guidelines early on and politely ask once down the road if/when there becomes a problem. After that, I pick up the phone right after I come into the office and in front of the staffer that pixxed out another excuse, I chew the contractor out, whether he was at fault or not. It gets the point across. If things like that are important to you, then nip it. If what you have right now is the high water mark in quality, then you have to adjust and learn to live with it.
JMTCW.