So, I'm a profoundly disabled and autistic woman (25F) who works as a secretary for a family friend. The only way I could work and not be on disability is that she hired me because I need very flexible accommodations, such as the fact I work from home. This is my first job so there's a lot that I don't fully understand.
Now, she (boss) said that I only need to report hours that I actually work because I'm WFH. Meaning, if I have an appointment at 10am but then don't have another one until 1pm, I punch in at 10am, punch out after that phone call and then don't punch in again until 1pm. However, she still gave me hours to work.
So, I work from say 9:30am-6pm but if I punched in and punched out like that, I'd only be paid for an hour or two and that doesn't feel fair because I made myself available for all those other hours for anything that might come in. However, maybe this is normal and I just don't have experience with this being my first job.
Is this normal?