#DrugTestsDebate #WorkplaceDilemma #NegativeDilute
So, let’s talk about drug tests. 🤔 Are they really necessary, or are they just a waste of time for everyone involved?
I recently had to go through the nerve-wracking experience of giving a urine sample for a drug test, only to find out it was “negative-dilute.” 😩 Now I have to go back and give another sample, all while stressing about my job prospects.
But here’s the thing – I’m a mega water drinker. 💧 Could drinking nothing but soda and juice for 24 hours still result in a dilute sample? It’s all so confusing and frustrating.
However, I do understand that drug tests have their time and place. Here’s a possible solution:
– Communicate with the testing facility about your water intake habits
– Avoid excessive water consumption before the test
– Offer to take a different type of drug test if available
Have you ever had a similar experience? Share your thoughts! #DrugTestStories #JobSearchWoess #StayHydrated💦
Agreed unless you are at a job that involves working heavy machinery or working with children. More so the former.
Unless the policies of racism and discriminations can be continually practiced in the name of public health and safety no oligarch is safe from the masses, drug tests are imperative to keeping the oligarchy safe!
There’s a logical application for it but like all things they get exploited by our favorite economic system. CDL, heavy machinery, working with children, law enforcement, etc.
Pee for enjoyment not employment.
They could do a saliva swab test. Ask if that’s an option.
I worked with a crack addict for a couple years. He was fine when he was sober. But if he came in high? Hell no.
It is a charade to promote conformity and an exercise in controlling the public… it is also an extremely profitable scam in most cases.
Glad they legalized weed here. Seems like drug tests went away after that…
Just another way to keep ppl down struggling to breathe
I have had to do a mandatory drug test for 4 different jobs in my life. Oddly, 3 of the places I got the job and was talking to other employees and it seemed like I was the only person that got “randomly” selected. 🤔
My factory does drug tests with marijuana results omitted. We as a group of workers demanded it from the CEO. Instantly took it off the docket. Something to think about…
My last job instituted drug testing. It seems the “random” tests were given to folks the site manager wanted gone (since it was easier to terminate someone for a failed test and avoid the hit on unemployment insurance). Sometimes the same people would be randomly chosen for two or three consecutive tests.
We actually just had to fire one of our school bus drivers for this exact thing. I say we, but it was a decision made by people above us and not even in our Transportation department i.e. people who have no idea what they’re doing. My boss is still absolutely pissed off about it, we all are.
Correct, they only catch potheads and noddy McGee gets the job
Go first thing in the morning before you reload on water. If you can not go when you get up, the “donation” should be concentrated enough.
Yes, until half of the forklift drivers are working under the influence. There is a lot of videos what you can do when crashing one.
I got denied a job recently because of a drug test I failed for thc but hadn’t smoked in over six weeks. Found out yesterday that a friend of mine got the job and this friend has had a meth problem for the last couple of months.
Drug testing is pointless because the real drug abusers know how to cheat
I agree. Though I’d always give my two weeks notice after the results of a drug test just in case I have to go through some random shitty obstacles to pass it.
A good manager knows how to hire people and can tell if they are fucked up at work. That is all you need to know. I don’t care what someone does on their off time. If you’re shooting heroin between your toes on the 9 am break, I’m gonna figure it out. And if I don’t, and you do your job and I’m none the wiser, there isn’t an issue. I’m not saying don’t drug test truck drivers, or cops (they don’t until they shoot someone) or crane operators. I just don’t think that a salesperson or receptionist needs to be drug tested. It’s intrusive and really does nothing other than allow an employer to make a moral judgment about someone that isn’t their business. The war on drugs has been a complete failure and this is one of the symptoms.
Years ago in my town there was a brand new call center built. It employed mostly college students as it was right next to a university. Saturdays were mandatory. They drug tested. For a call center job. It folded in a few years because turnover was so high.
Sales? wtf understandable if you were working in a job where turning up under the influence of alcohol and/or other drugs could be a safety hazard to yourself and/or others.
Find someone else’s pee?? That’s what I had to do one time and it worked. Just have them pee in a zip lock bag – double bagged. Put it in your underwear, you’ll need some tighty whiteys and tuck it between your balls (assuming your a dude) and go to the place right away. You always want to keep it to temperature. Even if it’s someone from the opposite sex, it’ll still work because there is no way to tell which is which unless they do a DNA test which they will not do.
I work in probation, I’m the guy that stands in the bathroom while you pee. 100% this.
One of my previous jobs added a breathalyzer to the pre-employment drug testing, which was a first for me (and no, the job didn’t involve any driving or operating heavy equipment). Their random drug tests also included the breathalyzer. So they’d call dozens of employees into the conference room and have everyone stand in line to blow into a breathalyzer at 8:30am. I always wondered what would happen if someone had just used mouthwash with alcohol before work or had even just had something to drink late the night before. Idk, seemed over the top to me.
Just ask for hair sample, doesn’t have to be urine for any drug test
This has been an enourmous cost to society. We can see the cost of doing all this but what is the true benefit? Do they really weed out drug addicts? Or are the addicts able to white knuckle it a few days and get thru anyway? Or are people moving to drugs that are less easy to test, etc. It’s a lot of administrative baloney without a lot of real benefit to the company. And as employment has become far more transient and short term with high turnover, the obsession with extended “onboarding” seems even dumber.
Just hire the candidates. If they appear stoned at work, they can fire them or offer to test them then. That would make far more sense.
And now with legal mj in many states, this is getting more silly. Someone who uses ( i personally don’t) but if they are using in legal and responsible way, testing them means nothing.
There are some jobs you should do constant drug testing for. For security reasons, for safety reasons, and because that field had a high rate of substance abuse.
However the vast majority of jobs don’t need them
They aren’t a waste of time at all. I work in an industrial environment and I don’t want a dope head around me. I don’t want to die and I don’t want to see anyone else die or loos body parts.