I have been trying to find a new job for about a month, and next week I booked an interview with a potential employer, who has been really clear about the fact that they were going to hire me (I know it is worth nothing, but I keep my hopes up !)
The thing is : I currenrly live in the North of my country, and that job is in the South (I want to move South for personal reasons), and they really want to meet in person for the last meetings, the first having been online.
Up until now, I always managed to schedule my interviews outside of my work hours (lunchbreak, after work, etc…), but it is impossible when I have to spend almost the entire day travelling.
So I asked for Friday off next week, so I can return during the weekend. My manager hasn't approved yet, and when I asked him about it, he told me he wanted to “speak to me about it, ask if it was an emergency, if it was necessary, etc…”
I don't have any obligation that day, and I know it's none of his business, but I really need him to give me the day off, and I don't want to blow the fact that I'm looking for another job while I haven't sign any new contract, so I pretended that an electrician had to come to our family appartment that day, and I had to be here. We're working in the same kind of field, so I thought he would understand and be more encline to accept that day off. He jokingly said “you're only working part time now, huh ?” (This week, I took my Monday off for absolutly unrelated reasons. I knew I was going to have a physically harrassing weekend, and just wanted one day to recover. That's also what I explained to him).
But I think he's starting to suspect that I'm leaving, since he never asked for a meeting to talk about a day off before. Maybe it's written in my face that I'm not happy hereand I'm looking for a way out.
Anyway, he's not at work tomorrow, only comes back on Monday, and I guess we will discuss it even more. If anyone has any idea about whether I should tell him the truth now or not (he hasn't officially approve my day off yet), and if not what do I tell him when I sign my new contact, I'm listening…