{"id":24985,"date":"2025-12-17T14:48:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24985"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:48:44","slug":"i-refused-to-work-on-saturdays-now-hr-will-cut-my-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24985","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Work on Saturdays \u2014 Now HR Will Cut My Salary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My company just started a new project and told us we\u2019d need to work Saturdays too. I refused and said, \u201cWeekends are for family.\u201dAfter that, HR hired a younger part-time worker to cover my Saturdays.Everything seemed fine until the end of the month, when my salary was reduced. I confronted HR, and she said, \u201cWe\u2019re paying someone else to do your Saturday work, so we\u2019re cutting your salary and paying him from your money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What they didn\u2019t know was that, over the past few months, 3 recruiters had already contacted me about joining other companies.So, the next day, without telling anyone, I deleted part of the work I had already done on the project\u2014roughly the same percentage as the pay cut.hen I told HR I was quitting. I knew this would put them in a difficult position because the project is at a sensitive stage. HR said, \u201cYou can\u2019t do <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My company just started a new project and told us we\u2019d need to work Saturdays too. I refused and said, \u201cWeekends are for family.\u201dAfter that, HR hired&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":154,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24987,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24985\/revisions\/24987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}