for the red gyarados guy, go the the small house above the pokemon center to go into the secret team rocket hideout and defeat them all and shut down the generator powered by the electrodes to fight pryce.
I feel like school, back when I was actually in school, was more entertaining though, because of how much I get to interact with people, hang out with friends, and other stuff like that. All I get to talk to at work is my boring coworkers lol