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[quote=Anonymous]If I were you, I'd be glad this is coming up now. You don't want to find out this stuff AFTER you accept a job!

I'd tell them the truth about whatever flexibility you have (or haven't.) If you can work weekends, but need more than a week's notice and want comp time, I'd tell them that. "I can absolutely work weekends, but I have obligations and need more than a week's notice to be able to work a weekend. How do you adjust an employees schedule in this case? Do you offer comp time?"

If you can't stay late, you absolutely need to say it. Ideally, you'd offer up something else that you can do instead, as in: "I have prior obligations that means I will always need to leave the office by 5:00 pm. I am happy to come in early if that helps out the team." or: "I have prior obligations that means I will need to leave the office by 5:00 pm most days, but if there is a certain day of the week, like Thursdays, when you'd like me regularly to stay late, I could make arrangements."

If you absolutely cannot flex on anything, you need to say it and recognize that they probably can't offer you the job, but that you're dodging a bullet.[/quote]

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