Protocol For Arranging Job Interviews

[SD1]

What's the opposite of a random day off? A regular day off I suppose

10 out of 10.

 

[screenman]

And would you automatically have given them a day off?
As you are not in the position of being an employee I think you may not be seeing it from their prospective. What would you think of someone who said I want to go to interview for another job? The first thing coming into your mind would be finding a replacement. In a weeks time he said I didn't get the job you would be thinking he is going to look for another job.

If I wanted to keep the guy I would be asking what can I do to make you stay.

I certainly would like to know why he wants to leave and would help out if possibly. A unhappy worker is seldom a good one and can make the workplace unhappy for others.

 

[screenman]

For whom? If you didn't get the job would your employer promote you or waste money sending you on a course?

So what happens when you go for the job, do not get it and the boss finds out, all trust has gone out the window.

 

[SD1]

I suspect it goes out the window either way, it is just less likely if you lie.

 

[SD1]

If I wanted to keep the guy

so now you have just given me another reason to lie.
You have to think of it from the employees point of view. They are bound to think it would harm their prospects within the company. You have been self employed or/and a boss to long to see it from their viewpoint AND you assume all employers are considerate and understanding. They are not.

 

[screenman]

I think a lot of employees are like your
employers if not more so.

 

[vernon]

I assume teachers think of their pupils before doing so.

If you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.

 

[SD1]

I think a lot of employees are like your employers if not more so.

Not sure what you mean?
Anyway I am retired.

 

[SD1]

If you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.

Another person with a bitchy persona! What makes you think I was talking about you AND what makes you think I knew you were a teacher?

 

[midlife]

That doesn't mean you have to give an explanation, just that someone needs to authorise your request.

They will not authorise unpaid leave. We are currently banned from taking time off in November. I asked for leave in March if this year but was refused. I have no absolute right to take any particular off as any sort of leave.....

Wage slave....

Shaun

 

[SD1]

OK, but that is a completely different issue from their right to demand a reason for the request.

That's the worst attempt at digging yourself out of a hole that I have ever come across.
Why not just admit you were wrong....only joking you would/could never do that!

 

[ColinJ]

What's the opposite of a random day off? A regular day off I suppose

I was having a chat with my MD once in his office while he was checking some paperwork. He was tut-tutting under his breath. I got on quite well with him so I asked what the problem was. He told me that he was checking details of who had taken time off sick and when. He had spotted that one employee had given himself a long weekend once a month for nearly a year. He would phone in sick on a Friday morning and then take the Monday off as well. It had been noted and there would be consequences ...

 

[TheDoctor]

I'd just book the day off. Have a reason ready if you're asked, but are you likely to be asked? Something non contentious, like getting a new boiler fitted or a cooker being delivered. You don't want to piss off your current employer, so book the holiday, give them as much notice as you can and finish stuff off before you go.
And good luck!

 

[swee'pea99]

I don't suppose there's any way you could raise your potential problem with your potential employer, and ask if it might be possible to have an interview out of office hours? Just outline your problem with them as you have here. The worst they can do is say no, then you may have to take a Plan B, but if I were a potential employer I'd be impressed by your honesty and reluctance to 'take a sickie'. I could be living in dreamland, of course, but it might be worth thinking about?

 

[SD1]

Plan B, but if I were a potential employer I'd be impressed by your honesty and reluctance to 'take a sickie'. I could be living in dreamland, of course

Zzzzzzzzzzz!