I'm feeling in a difficult position today. At the start of the week I had two days off as my gf considerately passed on a stomach bug to me - this left me in large amounts of pain and feeling uunable to do much.

Anyway while off sick I had a letter inviting me to interview tomorrow. Now the job pays well, sounds interesting and is close to home. So, what's the problem?

It is an issue even thought it should be because..

The boss is difficult about time off at the best of times (for me anyway - for perms or fta's no problem at all) - in the past I have had battles with him for time off and I haven't been off ill at the start of the week either. The way I see it is I have a few options but can't decide which is the best to take.

1. Be honest - but if he says no it will leave me in the awkward position of potentially not having any option but to quit my job and go to the interview anyway or having to call in sick which will look really bad.

2. Call in sick - the problem with this is loosing a days wages and as I was sick at the beginning of the week will this send out alarm bells

3. Fake a doctor's appointment - this seems my best option in many ways but what if he won't give me time off to see the doc?

The interview is at 10:30 so I should be over with by 12 and in work for 12:30 (worst case scenario in for 1).

As a sufferer of anxiety I am really starting to stress over this which is stupid. I think more than anything it's him being unreasonable in the past that is causing me to get worked up about it now but I really don't know what to do...