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Evening GD,

I've got a dilemma on my hands, I'm not happy in my current workplace and I've began looking elsewhere. There are a lot of personal and professional reasons why I've decided to do this which I won't bore you about.

I've got an interview on Friday and I'm yet to ask my boss for the time off (I only received an email about 16:30 today) How should I go about this? Be direct, and say I've got an interview and risk my job or keep it secret. I going to want a reference from my boss so I'm torn.

Any help is much appreciated
 
Personally I'd keep it secret for now. If nothing comes of the other job you may of made things awkward for yourself, and be stuck.

Just book a half day off work.
 
Had multiple interviews whilst still being employed, In my experience most companies get shirty when you go to a interview with someone else. Some managers take it as a affront to them.
it's best to book half day and not tell them.
 
Keep it secret (rich coming from me mind). As above, take a day or half day. If your boss isnt willing to give it to you, call in sick.

You're sick of the job so just gun it. The sooner you get out, the better.
 
Depending on how decent they are with short term requests for leave, play it safe an pull a sickie.

It will look like dodge city if you ask for leave, it's refused and then you call sick.
 
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It depends how well you get on with your direct manager. I've explained the situation to a previous manager because we had a tremendous working relationship. I've also coached and helped people working for me to pass interviews.

But in general the best approach is to take a half day holiday and only advise your company when you have an offer in writing.
 
mattyfez said:
Depending on how decent they are with short term requests for leave, play it safe an pull a sickie.

It will look like dodge city if you ask for leave, it's refused and then you call sick.
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^^^this

also

can they not schedule the interview at lunchtime? Or perhaps early in the morning whereby you can tell your boos you're going to be late as you're going to the doctors or something along those lines
 
Keep it secret until you have something secure, then you can either go with the new role or renegotiate your current one.
 
God, never ever tell anyone you're going for an interview, are you mad?!

I've always just made sure my interview is either in the morning or late afternoon -- that way it's easier just to say "I have to leave early because I have an appointment" or something. If they ask what it is just say you'd rather not tell them. Then they'll start thinking your winky is broken and will get embarrassed and leave you alone (and not refuse you). :)
 
Hades said:
It depends how well you get on with your direct manager. I've explained the situation to a previous manager because we had a tremendous working relationship. I've also coached and helped people working for me to pass interviews.

But in general the best approach is to take a half day holiday and only advise your company when you have an offer in writing.
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This TBH. Entirely depends on what sort of relationship you have with your manager, I was in exactly this situation last week and felt comfortable enough with my line manager to be honest about it. Had we not had a good relationship, I'd have requested holiday with no explanation, then if pushed say I had a hospital appointment.
 
zola25 said:
Whilst that is true when booking holiday at short notice it can reasonably be refused. The reason you specify might swing the decision though.
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Nope!

The general notice period for taking leave is at least twice as long as the amount of leave a worker wants to take (eg 2 days’ notice for 1 day’s leave), unless the contract says something different.
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So he only needs to give a days notice (though obviously, the more the merrier). That said, the contract does come into play :).

Sauce: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/booking-time-off-
 
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