I need to take a day off to fly to a different city for a job interview next week. What do I tell my current job? Do I call in sick, request a personal day, etc?

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I called sick.

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do the interview on a Monday. fly out on Sunday, back on Monday evening. you were out of town for the weekend.

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I’d request a personal day, to be on the safe side.

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I called in sick for a day and a half to fly to LA from NY. Boss didn’t even notice my overnight bag. Didn’t hurt that my deskmate/work bff was in on it and corroborated my “food poisoning” story. Just don’t over sell it.

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I take personal days. I try to make sure my team knows I’ll be out. But I definitely make up a story about why so they don’t get all weird and try to make me come in

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Get out of the biz; you have no imagination.

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Thanks all. I don’t think my agency technically has “personal days.” I’m under a microscope right now so I just want to make sure I do this the “right way.” 🤷‍♂️

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I actually did what I suggested - who is going to question “I’m going away for a long weekend” - when I accepted the offer, not one person had a clue that I had flown cross country for an interview.

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Personal day. It’s none of their business. That’s what I did for my last interview.

Make it notable that you’re going for an interview. Get fired. Get severance. Get the new job. Blammo.

Take a PTO day. You dont actually even need to give them a reason, but you can say you have an appointment. Then go rock the shit out of the interview and land this gig and make your current agency regret that they lost a great employee :)

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