The parent here, was used as the middleman, because she is the relative of the one who'd hired her son for a job, until she'd told them both, to communicate your needs to each other directly, and stop using me as your middleman! Translated…
During the winter vacation, my son works in the family business for part-time, and he would come in late every now and then, and would have me tell the relative who'd owned the business; and my relative would from time to time, ask me to transmit the messages he has for my son.
I can understand, that there may need to be more considerations in expressions of words if the boss and the employees are related. But, after a couple of times, I'd told my son, that he needed to explain to his boss, why he'd, gone to work late, this is what he needed to, learn. And I'd also, communicated with the relative, that he needed to tell whatever demands he wanted to make of my son, to him, just treat him as one of his regular employees, after all, as my son enters into the workforce in his future, he would have to, cope and deal with the many demands made of him by his bosses and clients too.
I'd rolled for more than twenty years in the workforces, and would still come across things that I don't feel comfortable saying, and in the end, I'd still had to, face them head on. It's important for the employees and the employers to set up a good communication mode, then trust can be built up then on. No matter if you work for your family businesses or work for a company that your families don't own, work should NEVER be just a paycheck, the jobs train us to interact with the world, and we're all still, on this road to learning the trades.
And so, you can see, how the parent being used as the middleman is normal, because it's her relative's business that her son works in, and, the owner may not feel like he is able to tell his relative's son what he'd expected of him, and yet, the woman her son, to communicate DIRECTLY with the relative who is the boss of where he'd begun working in, which is right, because, you can't rely on your families to tell your bosses what you need, and, this was going on, because the son works for his mother's relative.
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