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My job is only giving me two days a week and my boss just told me "you can't work anywhere else"
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Commenters agreed that this was an unreasonable request.
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It's not easy to get a job, let alone one that you like. It's a tough job market out there, and you don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth. You would hate to lose a job right at the beginning just because you couldn't work something out with your employer. But there is a big difference between rising to the challenge and bending to someone's unreasonable demands. If we're not vigilant, people will take advantage of us. You have to stand up for yourself at every turn, or else you'll end up at the bottom and wonder how you ever got there. Sometimes, if you give them an inch, they will take a mile. That's why, at the beginning of a job, it's important to assert yourself. You have to nail down your boundaries at the beginning while they are still learning your working style, and that way, you can teach them how to treat you. That's the crossroads where this worker was when their employer tried to push it too far.
If you're not paying someone a salary, there is only so much you can ask of them. You can ask them to work when you schedule them, but you can't ask for infinite availability. That's not what you're paying them to do. And in the case of this worker, they weren't even paying them to do much of anything. But when they reasonably sought more work, they had a bad reaction. Keep reading to see what happened between this employer and their boss, and see what you think about it.
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