I was just reading about blu’s Amsterdam plans and she commented that if she patronized a hash bar there and had a job to go back to, she might be drug tested. I have never had a job where I had to be drug tested, but BP does. It’s all random. Is this standard operating procedure?
In my company they’ve been running background checks on new employees to see if they’ve raped, murdered, robbed, etc anyone. They even run credit checks for godsakes! Thank God I’m kind of grandfathered in. It costs $35 to do these background check and they aren’t even thorough. I think some company somewhere must be making oodles of dough checking up on people. Oh, I think it’s necessary to a degree, but I still think it’s Orwellian.
What about other kinds of checks? Off the top of my head I can think of three employees (not in my department) who drink to excess and come back from every lunch smelling like Sam Adams. Another one has beaten the shit out of his wife. Another one (it’s a big place) has a favorite place he likes to disappear for hours and catch up on his zzzzzz’s. Do people actually go to work to work?
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At the casino, you have to take a drug pee test before you are hired; you can also be tested randomly at any time, and you can also be tested "for cause". I understand that this is fairly standard for just about companies now.
I am now off to Blu's blog to give her the benefit of my advice!
It was standard when I worked for that state. Though, in 10 years I only got called for a random once. It was kind of cool because after you were finished peeing in the cup you got to go home for the rest of the day and still got paid.
we have drug tests before we hire anyone. it is a condition of hiring. at my last job they random drug tested at least 2 times per year. people would get all nervous. those are the ones we testd first. one guy got caught peeing for another guy. both guys were fired.
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