A bit of a complicated situation, who should I help?

A lot of people advised you not to go ahead with trying to make the step father unemployed...

Posted from TSR Mobile

I posted a thread about the issue previously.

A lot of people advised you not to go ahead with trying to make the step father unemployed...

Posted from TSR Mobile

What issue

The clue you gave him was a bit cryptic, so I doubt that in one day he'll figure it out. You could've just told him bluntly that you took a comment by one of his staff members as a personal insult.

I would tell the business owner the exact problem you have, and then agree to resume purchasing from that business once the staff member is dealt with.

I don't care about bullies, and therefore I don't care about the girl. In other words, help the business.

The person in question is the wife of the owner, they both co-own and run the business.

They figured out the clue but she doesn't want to apologize.

.

The business :- It is a smallish fish processing factory. We never resumed doing business as the owner of the factory insisted his wife had apologized, she however refused to apologize and then went on to deny that she made any offensive statements. I gave them several chances but each time she didn't show up and gave me the ultimatum that if I wanted to buy from them buy or else bugger off. Their rivals found out what was happening and quickly rushed to be suppliers as I was paying wholesale + 25% in order to guarantee quality and quantity. They kept cutting corners and lost most of their customers, 2 months ago it went out of business.

The bullying girl :- She stopped her nonsense for a month or so and then it continued again. I told the headteacher that I had come to see her more than enough time with regard to this issue and I'm not going to come by again either they expel her or I was going to inform the area schools inspector and I was also going to inform several newspapers about the incident. They decided to suspend her until the mother agreed to allow counseling to take place. The mother refused and instead transferred the girl to another school.

The mother of the bully :- She fought with the school at every step to insist that her daughter had not done anything wrong and insisted it was completely normal behaviour for a 9 year old girl to kiss and french kiss boys of her age. She then insisted the teacher and headteacher reveal how much I had paid or donated to the school that they would go so far as to expel. I offered to pay for the counselor as I was rather curious why a 9 year old girl would be doing stuff that was usually done by 19 year old girls who has had too much to drink at a club. She refused and told me to go to hell. She started working at a supermarket that I frequent to 3 months ago. I've since stopped going to that supermarket.

The stepfather of the bully :- I felt rather sorry for him. He was the innocent party that got caught in the crossfire. He did try his best to steer the mother of the bully from being confrontational with me as he was far more rational about the whole incident but his partner was simply too stubborn or simply thought she could be a hero. 5 months after the incident I met him near the "dole office" and he was pleasant, told me he had split with the mother of the bully but was still jobless. I gave him a reference and one of my suppliers finally gave him a job.

My right hand person :- I gave her a promotion but told her next time don't jump the gun that way.

Whatever happened to the owner and his wife?

TBH, I find the whole thing to be a bit odd but not surprising. The wife of the owner, and the mother of the girl probably have some unresolved pride issues really, or as you said, too stubborn [for their own good].

The victims here are the husbands (particularly the stepfather), as well as the staffs. Hope everything works out for the stepfather now he's gotten a job.