[Kate*]

You had to have been a therapist in a past life. You're one of a handful of authority figures to treat me like a human and actually APPRECIATE the hell out of me. I know it's weird for you, but it's just as weird for me and it'll take time to learn that you're not going to flip a switch on me.

You do realize you scheduled me just under the full-time threshold, right? In the short term it's fine, but if your long-term plan is to work me as much as possible, without offering me benefits in return, that's NOT going to happen.
You can either give me enough hours to keep my own insurance without burning me out, or you can promote me and give me your benefits. I LOVE working for you, and that you appreciate me so much; but I won't be taken advantage of again.