I have just got back from giving a friend a lift to a seminar. We both own small businesses offering the same service in different towns. Pricing has always been difficult and we’ve bounced ideas off each other for years. However, she’s recently put her prices up and was asking my opinion, I asked her to explain a few things and gave her scenarios asking how she would charge in that particular situation, I also pointed out that her given what she had said, one of her pricing levels didn’t add up and told her why. She got really defensive (despite asking for my opinion), started to escalate her voice and so I shut up, we then went into a silence and I tried to break it by stating pricing is difficult and how I always struggle. She states “I’m happy with my pricing” to which I responded “fair enough”. Then a 10 min silence before she turns her phone onto the news channel on her speaker. I was so
shocked, it felt very rude. After she eventually breaks the silence she starts ranting about politics asking me some very uneasy and provocative questions about immigration and how she wants to go and live in Poland because they are all white there. At that point I told her I was shutting the conversation down. This was a 3 hour journey all up there and back and a full day at a seminar. AIBU to be thinking twice about spending anymore time with her?