Dear Abby: I started a new job a year and a half ago. Is in a small office. My head and I are the only employees. I really enjoy the work, but there is an aspect that really started to bring me. Increasingly, my boss has asked me to take care of personal tasks for him who are not related to the business. I understand he has no one else to trust but should not be my problem. I am a single mother with two children and I already have enough on the plate.
The final straw was when I asked for the day off to spend with all my family and asked me to pick up their pets in the afternoon (to save the cost of having them at night) and to give it a trip home from the airport at 9.30pm, I had to leave my family to do it.
Part of me knows that it was not fair to ask for these things. I don’t want to lie and say I can’t but “I don’t want” looks small. I have enough trouble running my own home without helping another. How can I say that without losing my job?
—No work on Idaho
Dear NO-WO for work: For your head to run for him without being compensated, he will take advantage of you. The first thing I would do if you were in your shoes would be to start exploring your community’s labor market. Then, if I found something that adapted to my particular skills, I would have a talk with my head and explain that I have responsibilities after working hours that make it difficult to fulfill their requests.
If you value what contributes to your business, you can discover another way of doing it with your orders. However, if you do not, you will have another job aligned.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Burn, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by his mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or Pobox 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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