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For 4 months now I have been entertaining the idea of becoming a Flight Attendant, and even mentioned to my manager I plan to leave the Starbucks company I currently work for. There's a hiring event I learned occurring soon in my area for Flight Attendants and noticed they are expecting attendees to stay the entire day, my manager always has our schedule for the next three weeks always posted like we won't have situations that pop up in our lives that we have to attend to and so I'm stuck between a rock and hard place now, were 4 employees short of our normal staff because we've had in the last month people fired for bad conduct and others who quit, I have plead with her to find coverage for me and expressed to her that I can't find coverage within my store or other stores.. I have some concern if I call out I may be written up or fired especially cause the hiring event for flight attendants expressed in their email invitation they cannot assure anybody will be getting an interview following the hiring event so there's a lot of what if's on my mind currently. It would suck to look back 6 months from now and realized I allowed fear to stop me from taking a risk towards my goals because I was too concerned about everything that may go wrong. I like hearing advice and my ears are open to everyone's thoughts on this matter. Thank you everyone in advance.
Did you already tell your manager that you needed the day off to attend the flight attendant hiring event? It's probably too late to turn this into a neutral or even positive result with your current manager if you already mentioned you wanted to take time off to prospect another job. Do you have any paid time off available, (vacation, sick days, other)? Three weeks schedules are a bit too much unless that's the companies policy. Check your handbook and find out what's the company's policy for requesting time off. Sometimes managers like to do go a little of company policy to lighten their workload but the company's policy takes precedence. Use your time off and go to the flight attendant job fair if that’s what you feel a career passion for. Good Luck!