I don't know if I am being unreasonable in my expectations....
I'm starting a new job at the beginning of December - contract signed etc.
10 days ago, I emailed my manager-to-be to say that the week I start I would need either a couple of hours / half a days leave for a pre-arranged event (that I would have been able to go to straight from work if I hadn't changed location).
I know it's not ideal in my first week, but it's literally a couple of hours and it's not a job where someone else would have to pick up my work if I wasn't there - and I will have only been there 2 days by then so won't have my own workload at that stage.
I haven't heard anything. (I did also email her weeks ago about something else and never got a response, but managed to get the answer via HR).
It seems a bit odd to me. I've been a manager in the past and always went out of my way to communicate with new recruits, make sure they feel welcome and know what's going on.
I know nothing up to this point, except what day I have to be there.
What I don't want is to have to ask on my first day about the time off.
But perhaps as I don't start until 2nd Dec I am worrying too much?