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Question about being “on call”/ handling work problems outside of work hours.

I work for my aunt and her small business. The office pays for my cellphone bill but I only work 12-15 hours per week. I don’t work Tuesday and Friday. The days I’m not in the office I typically get 2-5 calls from them asking to handle problems that come up. Sometimes I will and others times I just don’t want to for various reasons. She’s made comments about how I stopped answering office calls and removed an app on my phone that forwards call from customers even though she pays my phone bill. I seriously make less than $200 a week and feel that’s not enough compensation to deal with stuff outside of my 12 hours in the office. At that rate though I can’t afford to pay my own phone bill. Should I just deal with the issues so she doesn’t try to cut off my phone service…


I work for my aunt and her small business. The office pays for my cellphone bill but I only work 12-15 hours per week. I don’t work Tuesday and Friday. The days I’m not in the office I typically get 2-5 calls from them asking to handle problems that come up. Sometimes I will and others times I just don’t want to for various reasons. She’s made comments about how I stopped answering office calls and removed an app on my phone that forwards call from customers even though she pays my phone bill. I seriously make less than $200 a week and feel that’s not enough compensation to deal with stuff outside of my 12 hours in the office. At that rate though I can’t afford to pay my own phone bill. Should I just deal with the issues so she doesn’t try to cut off my phone service or is there a way I can tactfully approach this?

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