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How and when you tell your boss you're looking for a new job?

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  • E eLFeRNaNDiTo

    Hello there The job i'm in today is really getting boring, so I think i need a change and i'm looking for a new job, actually the last week I went to a interview, and I'm waiting for them to give a call...:laugh:. I talk to my boss about this one and it seems not to be the better. Now he is thinking (:~ I suppose) not to give me new proyects. Why I'm thinking that?.. well, by now I was about to finish a project, and yesterday he ask me to give that project to another person here in the company. Do you think i was wrong on tellin' my boss about this interview? eLFeR

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    Christian Graus
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    eLFeRNaNDiTo wrote:

    Do you think i was wrong on tellin' my boss about this interview?

    Gee - I don't know.... Plainly, that was a dumb move. What if you don't get the job ?

    Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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    • P Paul Watson

      And then you went and posted it all on a public forum, showing no respect... Bad move mate.

      regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

      Shog9 wrote:

      eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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      Christian Graus
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      Yeah, that did not occur to me. I've never had a bad job, but if I did, I would suck it down, or quit. If it's so bad, don't go. If you want them to pay you, give it your best and respect it.

      Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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      • E eLFeRNaNDiTo

        Hello there The job i'm in today is really getting boring, so I think i need a change and i'm looking for a new job, actually the last week I went to a interview, and I'm waiting for them to give a call...:laugh:. I talk to my boss about this one and it seems not to be the better. Now he is thinking (:~ I suppose) not to give me new proyects. Why I'm thinking that?.. well, by now I was about to finish a project, and yesterday he ask me to give that project to another person here in the company. Do you think i was wrong on tellin' my boss about this interview? eLFeR

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        Colin Angus Mackay
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        eLFeRNaNDiTo wrote:

        Do you think i was wrong on tellin' my boss about this interview?

        Yes.


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        • L led mike

          leckey wrote:

          Nahumina?

          qué?

          led mike

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          Colin Angus Mackay
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          led mike wrote:

          leckey wrote: Nahumina? qué?

          Who to the what now?


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          • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

            is standard.

            A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane

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            Colin Angus Mackay
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            Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

            Two weeks before your next job starts

            Two weeks? I think it depends on your notice period. One month is standard notice period in the UK.


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            • M Marc Clifton

              Richard A. Abbott wrote:

              What might be better questions are "what do I want from this life ? what are my ambitions - short term, medium term and long term ? and how am I going to get there - what must I do to realise my ambitions ? ".

              I agree, though part of the subtle sarcasm (at least I think so) of my response is that often, we are told that the problem is with "us", not with something/somebody else. It seems to be a thing of today's pop culture, that other people are fine, we have to figure out what's wrong with us in order to coexist peacefully and work in harmony. It's a perspective that has value but I feel has been pushed too far. Maybe I'm just burnt out on it though, as my ex-wife would always tell me the problem wasn't with her, it was with me. One could argue she was right, as I couldn't figure out a solution to "my" problem, so I solved it by divorcing her. Marc

              Thyme In The Country

              Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
              People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
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              Marc Clifton wrote:

              It seems to be a thing of today's pop culture, that other people are fine, we have to figure out what's wrong with us in order to coexist peacefully and work in harmony. It's a perspective that has value but I feel has been pushed too far.

              Glad there are people who think outside the box.

              Marc Clifton wrote:

              One could argue she was right, as I couldn't figure out a solution to "my" problem, so I solved it by divorcing her.

              Sorry to hear that. I resolved my problem by being accomodating. It's not about right or wrong. It's just how bad you want that person.

              Norman Fung

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              • E eLFeRNaNDiTo

                Hello there The job i'm in today is really getting boring, so I think i need a change and i'm looking for a new job, actually the last week I went to a interview, and I'm waiting for them to give a call...:laugh:. I talk to my boss about this one and it seems not to be the better. Now he is thinking (:~ I suppose) not to give me new proyects. Why I'm thinking that?.. well, by now I was about to finish a project, and yesterday he ask me to give that project to another person here in the company. Do you think i was wrong on tellin' my boss about this interview? eLFeR

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                Really bad move. I will be handing my notice in this Friday. Because i am going back to education i have known for sure that i would be leaving (and the date) for about the last 3 months. I have known i would probably be going since about Christmas but have i told anyone at work yet? Have i hell. Yes i feel a bit guilty about keeping quiet and just giving minimum notice (which will really drop my employer in it with a very important project) but i have no doubt that its the correct thing to do (for me and my family at least, not for my employer though). I dont know what the reaction will be on Friday. Given whats at stake he will either cry or scream and i have no doubt that i dont want to be around for the month after (fortunatley i will be on customers sites for most of my notice so i wont have to be around the office too much). Would i have told him Chrismas that i was probably leaving in September? Yea right. You have basically just quit. Only now its up to your boss when you go. Also untill you go you will not be trusted, if you think its boring now just wait for a couple more weeks. Jon

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                • D devvvy

                  Marc Clifton wrote:

                  It seems to be a thing of today's pop culture, that other people are fine, we have to figure out what's wrong with us in order to coexist peacefully and work in harmony. It's a perspective that has value but I feel has been pushed too far.

                  Glad there are people who think outside the box.

                  Marc Clifton wrote:

                  One could argue she was right, as I couldn't figure out a solution to "my" problem, so I solved it by divorcing her.

                  Sorry to hear that. I resolved my problem by being accomodating. It's not about right or wrong. It's just how bad you want that person.

                  Norman Fung

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  norm wrote:

                  Sorry to hear that. I resolved my problem by being accomodating. It's not about right or wrong. It's just how bad you want that person.

                  I agree, divorce sucks. But don't get the impression that I didn't try very hard for a very long time to see her perspective, and to try and be accomodating. I bent over backwards to accomodate, and all I got was more criticism, complaints, and condemnation. There was no reciprocation. In the end, it wasn't how bad I want that person, it was how bad I want to get away from that person. Marc

                  Thyme In The Country

                  Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
                  People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                  There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    norm wrote:

                    Sorry to hear that. I resolved my problem by being accomodating. It's not about right or wrong. It's just how bad you want that person.

                    I agree, divorce sucks. But don't get the impression that I didn't try very hard for a very long time to see her perspective, and to try and be accomodating. I bent over backwards to accomodate, and all I got was more criticism, complaints, and condemnation. There was no reciprocation. In the end, it wasn't how bad I want that person, it was how bad I want to get away from that person. Marc

                    Thyme In The Country

                    Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
                    People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                    There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                    devvvy
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                    Marc Clifton wrote:

                    I agree, divorce sucks. But don't get the impression that I didn't try very hard for a very long time ... In the end, it wasn't how bad I want that person, it was how bad I want to get away from that person.

                    Perhaps sometimes you just need to get lucky...

                    Norman Fung

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                    • L leckey 0

                      conixsdh wrote:

                      S.D. Hunt

                      Nahumina?

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                      led mike
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                      leckey wrote:

                      Nahumina?

                      come on now, give it up... what does it mean?

                      led mike

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                      • L leckey 0

                        conixsdh wrote:

                        S.D. Hunt

                        Nahumina?

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                        eLFeRNaNDiTo
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                        ??? :~

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                        • R RC_Sebastien_C

                          Disagree with:

                          Richard A. Abbott wrote:

                          Perhaps he was happy yesterday but today he is in a rut, perhaps "down in the dumps", but tomorrow he may be again happy.

                          He already went on a job interview... unlikely caused by a couple of days down. Agreed with the rest though.

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                          eLFeRNaNDiTo
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                          HollyHooo: He already went on a job interview... unlikely caused by a couple of days down. It's not a couple of days down..... it's a longer period of time, you know, i have been working for this company about six years. the first four years I was in a diferent dept. and the last two years in another one. in this last one I feel I didn't fit well with the companions here. I think I have many reasons for a change....

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