Honesty is the BEST policy.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has up's and downs in life so lets face it, some days are great and then next day can be totally rotten. I'm grateful to say I have a great family who supports me in my endeavors and some times crazy ideas. Back in January a friend talked to me about opening up a physical shop that would host multiple vendors through out the year. She offered to let me in for free in exchange of helping out. She home schools her two younger boys so she can't just jump and run every time something is needed. Well needless to say, with in two weeks of the shop opening things just weren't going right. I know that there are little things that must be worked out when a business opens but that was the problem...the problems weren't being fixed and she was losing money. I tried sheets to balance the cash box but that was never done right unless I was there morning, shift change, and night. An uneasy feeling came over me almost a week ago between the money going missing & things had being stolen out of the shop. I wanted no part of a business that was unorganized, especially since I had the other key to get into the building and I took the cash box home each time I closed. There were so many more problems that compounded upon these. Monday night I called it quits and went in to pull my stuff. Later that night I sent her an email and asked when she would be in the next morning so I could bring her the keys. I wrote her a formal letter stating the reasons why I was no longer going to be a part of the shop in any way. Everything in the letter was tactful and was meant to be constructive criticism but when I gave it to her on Tuesday she flipped out on me. She told me in it nothing was true and I had NO right to be doing what I was...okay so I'm spending hours each week writing up the schedule but I don't have a right to know or even talk about the times with other vendors? REALLY? Well needless to say I got her to sign it saying that I have have handed her the keys and I have no further responsibility in the shop, that way if there is something stolen, I'm not in the middle of it but she wasn't happy about it. I spent all last night beating myself up about it because I'm one who has integrity in my business and as a person, so being called a liar (and I have written proof to most if not all of what I put in the letter) really really hurt. After sleeping it off I feel much better, and like Alex said, had I not shared with her these things, it would have been just like lying to her. I know I did whats right even if it burned a bridge.