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How do I request less hours?

My job asked me how many hours I wanted to work a week. I told them 30 hours a week. They've put me on for just under full time. How do I ask that they lower my hours?

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Does anyone have genuine tips on how to avoid crying at work?

We work in four hour shifts and don’t really have the option to go take breaks or hide anywhere (including bathrooms) and its becoming really hard to not burst into sobs at work. Everyone else I ask this to just gets really uncomfortable. Does anyone have serious tips?

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Boss told me they are considering paying my assistant more than me- how to proceed?

I work in a small town where good jobs are kinda hard to come by, I actually get a semi-decent rate of pay (whatever that means) to manage a store. We have had a hard time attracting any applicants to an assistant manager role, that I have been covering, as well as my own full-time duties. Now my boss tells me we have an applicant (yay!) but they are asking almost double my rate! I’m sure there will be a negotiation but the rate is so high it’s hard to imagine them settling on anything lower than my rate. I need to have a conversation with my boss but not sure what my approach should be…

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Just Lie

I have found this to be easiest way to getting what you want. Out of an interview. I lie about my experience and what I have done. Its gotten me a lot further then what I have done before. They play games with me

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I had to pay $60 for a doctor’s note to get 1 day off work

My company allows 10 sick days per year. I used our system to mark myself sick on 4/1 and I got a call from the boss saying I have 24 hours to get a sick note. So I call my doctor's office and talk to the receptionist who give's a note to my doctor's nurse to call me. 4 hours later I get a call back asking what my symptoms are, why I need a note, etc. They say they will talk to my doctor and it's up to her to give me a note. An hour goes by. Doctor calls – asks all the same questions as the nurse, asks if I had a covid tests, tells me to take one of my free USPS tests and to call back. It's negative. I'm pretty sure I have a sinus infection – runny nose, eyes and teeth hurt, etc. I…

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At my workplace if you work less than 40 hours a week, your PTO automatically gets allocated to your “missed” hours. Does anyone else have experience with this?

This is my first job in a formal office setting and I have never heard of a policy like this before, even through 4 years of business college. I just wanted to try and gauge if this is a common policy or if my company is just being extra predatory. For clarification in case my title wasn't clear enough, the policy is like this. You are scheduled for a 5 day work week, to work 8 hours per day. if you work 7 hours on one of those days, one hour of your Paid Time Off gets deducted, and supplemented into the hour you 'missed.' The company is still paying out on PTO hours but is making the decision for you when that PTO is spent…

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I almost forgot to submit my Christmas Bonus! It really gave me so much perspective about what to hold and cherish from the grocery store on a daily basis.

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Starbucks Baristas Are Unionizing, and Even Howard Schultz Can’t Make Them Stop

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Vegas Strip resort surprises 5,400 workers with $5K bonuses

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What else is he going to say