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When it comes to work, I tend to avoid people who are close to me. It's most likely that a problem can occur. I'm saying this from experience. I've had issues with giving jobs to people I know. It's either they don't take the job seriously or they demand for way too much.
It's better today give the job to someone outside, someone relatively unknown who can be held accountable for his or her actions.
If you give a job to a family member and the individual falters, sentiments would not allow you to do what you would normally do in such situations. You'd have to come to a compromise. I don't like that.
There was once a time when we gave a videoing job to a friend at an event. This was someone who had repute for doing good jobs, people recommend him every now and then and he sometimes has to travel far to do some video coverage. We gave him money to get our event covered. You won't believe it if I told you that this guy did not come for the whole length of the event. He made up some excuses and the coverage was very poor.
Another time, he was contracted to cover a programme where some important people were coming around. We needed pictures a well as videos. After the programme had concluded, we discovered he lost most of the pictures and did not cover the main events. There was barely anything we could do on each of these occasions because this guy was like family. It made me have some sense not to give important jobs to family or friends no matter the condition. Sometimes, people resort to friends because it may be cheaper and the friend or family won't charge exorbitant fees. Yet, I tell you it's better to pay someone well who you can hold accountable than pay cheaply for a friend or family member to do the job.
