April 26, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 10

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025 • 5 Employee’s Hours Change When Boss Adds Errands To Workload DEAR ABBY: I started a new would do if I were in your shoes ever since she moved out of mother’s illness is terminal. job a year and a half ago. It’s in DEAR ABBY would be to start exploring the state with her boyfriend. Abby, What you must decide is wheth- a small office. My boss and I are job market in your community. our relationship has been tox- er you would like to make peace the only employees. I enjoy the overnight) and give him a ride Then, if I found anything that ic ever since she found out she with her for yourself, NOT be- job very much, but there’s an home from the airport at 9:30 suited my particular skills, I was pregnant with me almost 35 cause relatives are pressuring aspect of it that has really start- p.m. I had to leave my family would have a talk with my boss years ago. My family expects me you into it. If the answer to ed to wear on me. Increasingly, gathering to do this. and explain that I have responsi- to put out a “fire” I didn’t start, that question is no, tell these my boss has been asking me to Part of me knows it bilities after working hours that just because she is sick. The last well-meaning relatives that be- take care of personal tasks for wasn’t fair of him to ask for these make it difficult to comply with time she was in town, I held her cause of the abuse you suffered him that are unrelated to the things. I don’t want to lie and his requests. accountable for the choices she’s at her hands from the time you business. I understand that he say I can’t, but “I don’t want to” If he values what you con- made, and she exploded. She were little, you feel you lost your has no one else to rely on, but it seems petty. I have enough trou- tribute to his business, he may screamed, cussed at me and dis- mother years ago and you are shouldn’t be my problem. I’m a ble running my own household figure out another way to get respected me in my home. not comfortable contacting her single mom with two kids, and without helping out with anoth- his errands run. However, if he Am I cruel for standing my now. I already have enough on my er. How do I say this without doesn’t, you will have another ground and refusing to be mis- plate. losing my job? — NO WORK- job lined up. treated by her? Must I please Dear Abby is written by Abigail The final straw was when I WIFE IN IDAHO my family and succumb to their Van Buren, also known as Jeanne asked for the day off to spend DEAR NO WORK-WIFE: For DEAR ABBY: My mother has pressure to surrender my peace? Phillips, and was founded by her with my entire family, and he your boss to expect you to run cancer that has metastasized, What if my mother survives only mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact asked me to pick up his pets in errands for him without being and my family is now expect- to abuse me again? — VICTIM- Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. the afternoon (to save him the compensated is taking advan- ing me to talk to her. We haven’t IZED IN OHIO com or P.O. Box 69440, Los An- cost of having them boarded tage of you. The first thing I had a relationship in nine years, DEAR VICTIMIZED: Your geles, CA 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield