Team is now required to be onsite M-F. What excuses can I use for scheduling interviews when flights have already been booked?

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1. PTO
2. Doctor Appointment
3. Family Emergency (great if you have wife/husband or kiddos!)
4. Doctor Follow Up Appointment
5. Maintenance at Apt/Have to Sign Forms so need to be in person/Home Repairs if you have one
6. You’re getting a new couch delivered at home
7. You’re having the FIOS guy at home for internet
8. Your car got effed up
9. Picking up mail from the valet (and valet doesn’t open on weekends)

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Dr appt

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I wouldn't lie. I would just say I have an appointment I can't move and don't explain more. I have never been asked more

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Only becomes immediately suspicious if you do it multiple times within a small time period

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I always use doctors appointments

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Doctors appointments. Need to take a day off for personal reasons, etc. Deliver quality work and you’ll be ok taking a day off

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Personal day.

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Well, it happened. I have an interview on Monday. Wish me luck with my excuse and thanks for the responses!

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^ Monday is the perfect day to have a terrible 💩💩💩 and blame it on the weekend.

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Why onsite on Fridays?

Ok, makes sense. I just feel weird saying it's a doctor's appt since I'd need to make these last minute flight changes. But I guess things like that do come up after flights are booked anyway.

@P1 Well yeah and that's what I'm nervous about. I'm applying to multiple positions and I'm going to need to have multiple days off at different times because they all take a different amount of time to call back. I guess I could try to strategically schedule interviews for the same day but there's no telling if that will work for the people interviewing.

PTO

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