u/wolverinegaze

So we are procuring an engineering system for our company. The discussions have been going on since months.

Our procurement team during negotiations with this particular vendor negotiated heavy discounts. I think this pissed the sales person off - they provided it anyway.

During the final procurement meeting with our engineering team, this sales person behaved extremely condescendingly and unprofessionally. I registered a verbal protest to another person but I am feeling humiliated.

My boss is fixated on this system, and therefore, I can't even look for another alternative as it will delay our urgent project by months again.

TLDR: Got humiliated by an unprofessional vendor salesperson.

My son is 5 years old and sensitive. By his nature, he remains mostly verbal and rarely gets physical with someone.

But sometimes he tells me that so and so kid tried to hit him. Not that he gets bullied or something; he has a good friend circle. So I initially told him to hit back but then I thought of the gravity and consequences of my statement. I mean he is just 5 years old and would think that violence is normal.

Therefore, I told him to avoid fights and let us know if someone is bullying him so that we can talk to the kid and his parents. But then he said "what if he still doesn't stop?". I couldn't say that you should hit back.

Is it OK for me to tell him to hit back if he gets bullied? I just don't want him to think that punching over minor arguments is OK. I don't want him to be a pushover either.