Do you normally tell your current boss if you have

[Jalapeñomel]

interviewed for another position?  Or do you wait to discuss it if you get offered the job?

[Wrath0fKuus]

Depends on why I'm leaving the current job.

[TemperanceBrennan]

I do not tell my current boss if I interview for a job. I am pretty sure he would freak out. It would not end well for me, I am sure.

Even if my boss was normal, I probably wouldn't tell them if I interviewed. Only if I got an offer. That is how I've done it in the past.

[Deleted]

Nope.

[Deleted]

If it was internal I would tell my boss before the other boss called my current boss.

[juliagoulia]

I don't tell my current job until I have an offer.

I'm paranoid.

[Deleted]

No way. My boss doesn't need to know until I'm actually handing her my letter of resignation.

[Deleted]

My last job I did but he knew I was openly looking for a FT position. This time? Newp. Not a word.

[natsnow]

Definitely not. I just quit my job (yay) and I didn't tell them until I had signed a contract at the new job

[Jalapeñomel]

Well it appears that DH has been passed on to the final process in the interview stage (HOLY SHIT), and his current boss is a reference (she accepted back in September to be a reference). She has known that he´s been on the market since September, but we haven´t disclosed anymore information about the process. She´s been contacted as a reference about this new job, and DH didn´t tell her about the campus interview.

He felt that he didn´t want to tell her about it, because it was too premature in the process, and he didn´t want to freak her out. He also felt that he didn´t want to tell her until it was further in the process, so that he was ready to negotiate at the right time.

I know that we are totally clueless when it comes to this whole thing.

[Gato]

I never did.  My H recently did some out of state interviews, and he's a crappy liar, so he decided to tell his boss why he needed the time off rather than make something up.  He told his boss it was nothing personal; we wanted to relocate to New England.

Even so, his boss was a little cool to him the next few months, figuring my H was out the door.  H missed out on a few good assignments.  He thinks his boss was looking to throw the good stuff to people who would be around.

H did get offered one of the jobs but we decided to turn it down.  He told his boss that and everything went back to normal.  He and his boss have a pretty open, buddy-buddy relationship and I think that is key.

[CurlyQ284]

No way. At DHs work, his boss has caught wind of guys interviewing and has sabotaged their new job opportunity so they can't leave.

[snickers]

I would wait, but my boss is a total B.I.T.C.H!

[Jalapeñomel]

May 9, 2013 16:13:01 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

No way. At DHs work, his boss has caught wind of guys interviewing and has sabotaged their new job opportunity so they can't leave.

WTF. That's horrible.

[underwaterrhymes]

The past four jobs I have had (including the one I'm in now) I would be / have been able to do this. And one that I had quite a long time ago now. (That job was less than awesome, but the boss was the best I've ever had. I loved her.)

[Deleted]

No.
My previous manager had no idea I was interviewing until I turned in my two week notice.

[sunshineluv]

May 9, 2013 16:43:50 GMT -5 snickers said:

I would wait, but my boss is a total B.I.T.C.H!

Ditto this. My former manager I would have been able to talk to openly about it, she would have been happy for me wanting to further my career. New manager, no way. She hates me already why give her more reason!

[escrow]

Nope. Years ago I was offered a position elsewhere, I didn't breathe a word of it until I told my boss. He quite immediately wrangled all the VPs (I work for a small company) and they countered with more than the other job offered to keep me. Which was a sweet deal and complete surprise, I only wanted to leave for $$... I'm still there 5 years later