Getting out of work for a job interview

[JoeyJoeC]

I have a couple of job interviews coming up, how ever their days are not flexible and neither are my bosses.

 

He will constantly find ways to make it so I don't to take time off.

 

If I'm sick, I'll have to work from home, expecting constant calls from the office and clients. If I'm going on holiday, I can only have the dates between flying out and coming back and nothing else, and expected to take calls.

 

If I have a doctors appointment, he will expect me to work the hours inbetween.

 

I can almost never have Mondays or Wednesdays off due to working at a clients, and my work load is too much to take any other day off for that matter!

 

He is also very demanding of the reason I am trying to take time off, and will often tell me to do those things at the weekend instead.

How do I get past this obstacle?

[think about it]

Book the day off, tell him you're going for a (insert deeply personal medical sounding procedure here) and smile sweetly. Or, when he asks, tell him it's personal / none of his business and walk away, alternatively a glass of heavily salted water and deposit your breakfast on his desk. He's your manager, not your keeper.

[king12345]

When I was younger I had a job like that.

Eventually I started making up the most disgusting and embarrassing medical excuses to tell my demanding boss (female boss)

She stopped asking and made a point to let me know that I didn't have to tell her