‘Fate had my back’: Employee takes company truck to interview for another workplace after repeatedly being denied days off, gets the new job while on the clock

Finding a new job can be tricky when you are already working full-time for another company. This is mostly because if you're at your job from 9 to 5 every day, how are you going to clear time to interview for a different workplace? You can't just get up and go on a random Tuesday to go to your interview, people are going to notice.

Usually, people either take a sick day or a day off when a new job opportunity opens up, or if they are lucky, they have remote days they can use for exactly these purposes. But all these options can still be complicated to execute without having your boss notice something is up, and you might have to get a little bit more creative. The best possible option for you to go unnoticed when you are interviewing for a new job, is by doing it while on the clock in your current job. But how does one actually pull that off? Well, that is a question for the employee in the story down below…

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