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We have to take 4 days over Christmas because the dealership is shut, I have used 15.5 days :( Maybe after January.

• henrikschroder 16y ago
  STOP. MAKING. EXCUSES. You're a poster child for Stockholm Syndrome. You are completely and utterly playing by their rules. Just start looking for a new job, that is something you can do when not at work, and if things progress as far as you getting an interview, take the day off from your job and deal with that problem then. Call in "sick". Say you've got a funeral. Take a vacation day anyway. When you get there, you'll realize you don't actually care about your current workplace that much after all. But by leaping to the problem first and then declaring that you can't solve it right now, you're setting yourself up for failure. You're just manufacturing excuses for staying in the position you're currently in. STOP. IT.
  • pavel_lishin 16y ago
    After he runs out of sick days, I'd advise him to just stop showing up for work on interview days. They're not going to fire him, he's not interested in staying there, and the bridge that he might conceivably burn is built out of bubble gum and toothpicks, anyway.
• metageek 16y ago
  Half a day would be enough to interview at the nearby place that paid the equivalent of £102K/year for you. Ask for £80K/year, they'll think they're getting a bargain. If you save half of it, you'll still be much better off, and you'll be building up a reserve so that, later on, you can quit and spend time interviewing in a city where there are good jobs.
• bsk 16y ago
  Go to 4 interviews and tell those bastards you plan to leave before Christmas.