When a parent employs their own child and cannot hold them to the same standard as everyone else, the business doesn't just have a performance problem. It has a payroll problem, a management problem, and an authority problem — all running at the same time.

You were building toward the firing conversation. They handed you a resignation letter first. The exit they controlled is now your problem to manage — and the operational and family fallout doesn't care who quit first.

You hired them. That was your call. And every week you don't say anything, the business pays for a decision you already know was wrong. Here's what it's actually costing you — and what to do about it.