Timeline for Moving house without taking a new job
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| Sep 9, 2020 at 14:41 | comment | added | Egor | @JWatFlavia, makes sense, thanks for clarifying! | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 7:09 | comment | added | JW at Flavia | @Egor : I guess that may depend on culture. I have had (company-) bosses who would not believe an applicant would relocate to their city even if they wrote so in their application. I only got the job because I mentioned I already had an aunt living in the same place - otherwise they would have assumed it "too big a leap". Seeing "a plane-ride of an hour and a hotel-stay" as a trivial thing is certainly unheard of in my culture (aside from top-managers, perhaps). | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 23:26 | comment | added | Egor | I don't see why a request like that would make a manager "nervous". First of all, as mentioned by the OP, their work is currently remote and may remain mostly remote after COVID, so it looks like it doesn't really matter whether they're in city A or city B. Second, looks like A and B are just about an hour away by plane, so OP can definitely travel to city B on occasion and stay in a hotel. To me, OP's request seems completely reasonable so I don't see why there's a need for any extra cautiousness to "avoid making the manager nervous". | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 7:11 | vote | accept | whme | ||
| Sep 6, 2020 at 0:24 | comment | added | jmoreno | I would suggest making it a bit more forceful than, “I can stay with family”, instead make an an actual arrangement (preferably a room and not just a couch), with family and include that fact in discussions with the manager. Pay someone to have a room open that you can drop into at any time. | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 8:40 | comment | added | JW at Flavia | @NicolasBrauer : If you choose to talk to your manager, make sure to mention that you can sleep at your family's place. Also: I think there is a mechanism for "accepting" an answer - if this is the right answer for you, you can "accept" it :-) But you can of course wait, there might be better answers coming :-) | |
| Sep 2, 2020 at 15:34 | comment | added | whme | Thank you for this answer. I have family living nearby where I can always stay for the night in case things at work seem tense. Also the part about not making my manager nervous is excellent, I didn't think of it that way. Also not changing the place of work in the contract to avoid forcing my manager to make "hard" decisions is a very good point, thank you! | |
| Sep 2, 2020 at 14:08 | history | answered | JW at Flavia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |