Good excuses to be away for 3 hours for an interview when the team knows you are alt traveling and not in your home city? (so no Dr. appointments and the like)

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Nothing. Just that you'll be offline for a couple of hours and will return when you get back.

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Gastro-intestinal distress. No one ever asks more.

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" I have some personal matters to attend to that will require me to be off-site/offline for a few hours." This will suffice. If they press on what it is, you can just say you have financial matters to attend to. Neither of the above is a lie, if you think about it.

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Who in their right mind would tell their (likely male) team they have a UTI? No need to get into specifics like that about your health.

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The more specific you get into a lie, the more obvious it becomes to me that you are lying.

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Just say you have a personal emergency

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Broken laptop and have to go into the office

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Friends bachelor or birthday party

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Return calls and emails

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I've definitely alt travelled to the doctor before.

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@K2, "made you" aka invaded your privacy. Managers like that are a pain

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@K2. If I were you, I would have said exactly what P2 said. "It is a private health matter. I am happy to explain it to HR if you connect me"

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That's pretty messed up, K2. I would never ever want to talk about my UTI to a male superior.

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Urgent carw

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Girl or guy? Say urinary tract infection if girl.

@D3 my manager made me tell him about my UTI bc he said my "excuses were bs" 🙄

@A1 @P2 just got off a call with my PML where she asked me why I was insubordinate and noncooperative when he was "only trying to help me" 😒

Stay at a far hotel and forget the charger that no one else on the team has. That should buy a couple hours

@D3 right? 😒

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