Backstory, first employee is a “friend” working with me for two years. Dudes always late, messes up constantly, texting, calls, call out, etc, but I put up with it. He even didnt come to work for half a year (just returned a month or two ago), and borrowed my fiances car for months after she was hit by a truck while walking. Didnt say thank you. I also toss him cash and paid time off a lot. He’s part time. I needed to get a guy on full time as I just leased a new larger building with expectations of producing more work. New guy has past experience and has a heavy drive to learn and work hard. He gets 4 more per hour than first employee. First employee found out and texted me at 5am (probably drunk, as he usually gets at night and causes fights) saying he wasn’t coming to work today, knowing we needed a second pair of hands, because he has a lot on his kind about the new guy getting paid more and his personal relationship issues (mostly caused by his alcoholic behavior). Didn’t word it very kindley either. How would you respond?