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JANUARY 25, 2022

I never worked from home, as my role as a receptionist/administrative assistant isn’t conducive to that. I am clean, perfumed, hair brushed, and dressed like everyone else here. It’s just one more thing to clean and pay for. I am a woman in my mid-twenties. Aside from the usual “are you feeling okay?”

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my new job wants me available full-time but only pays me for part-time

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JULY 5, 2016

A reader writes: Several months ago, I was hired as an administrative assistant by a very small nonprofit. Legally, ethically, and practically, they cannot have it both ways. When they offered me the position, I was told they could only afford to have me work seven hours per week (they stressed this was a strict limit).

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