conv: Last year my wife got laid off from her job. My boss heard about it and ended up giving me more hours so we did not have such a massive loss of income. Last year my wife got laid off from her job. Im sorry to hear that. Does she have a job now? At the time it happened_comma_ my boss found out about it and gave me more hours to make up for our loss of income till she got another job. Well that was nice of your boss. Its great to have good people in this world