drug test!

[kittenmittons]

Most employers have acceptable levels of THC, so this is probably all overkill.

orly? so THAT'S how I got that job. it's perplexed me for years.

[Guest eriathomas]

I know that you can get small traces of THC from 2nd hand smoke, so I'm sure a lot of employeers are just like "whatever". I don't think explaining it's from 2nd hand goes over well if they tell you you failed.

[adammuzzy]

or you grabbed the wrong batch of brownies

[Guest eriathomas]

Ha, that'd be a pretty funny excuse if it was true.

[mcm1610]

It's been explained to me that it is blatantly obvious if you've smoked as opposed to being around it 2nd hand. A lot of places just aren't very concerned unless your THC levels are crazy (i.e. you smoke non-stop).

[circlingvultures]

My place of employment randomly tests. I didn't get tested when I was hired(not that it would have mattered) but have been tested maybe 4 times in all the years I have worked there. It's very rare to be tested and I think it only happens when the toll free number is called and something is reported. Which is almost never.

My understanding is that if you are randomly tested and you come back positive it doesn't mean you are out of a job. There are some sort of treatment classes or something you must take and there's a period of a year where they can call you anytime to go take a test and you have to go and pass in order to keep your job.

I don't do too much but when I do I make sure it's during a period when I will have enough time to flush my body before I go back to work. I smoke pot a few times a year and I think because its so little it doesn't stick around in me that long. I say that because I smoked a bunch of times in late march. There were 3 or 4 days I smoked a bunch of times a day. I didn't do anything to flush my system and I didn't smoke at all after that. About a week and a half after I last smoked, I took an at home test and it came back negative.

[One Hundred Fifty-Two]

For a lot of jobs they use the drug test as a scare tactic. They will only test like 10%, because it is too expensive to send every one out.

[hankmurphy]

It's just weed. What's the big fucking deal bitches?

[opioqueers]

I once took a drug test (that I didn't know in advance was going to happen) three days after I had last smoked weed, and I somehow passed. I still don't know how that worked.

[motorbike]

im going with the "some employers have acceptable levels of thc" on that one, haha. hopefully ill know something by friday. they had to do a back ground check and all that jazz so we shall see!

[motorbike]

so, i finally got a call back and they told me to come in and fill out paperwork. that was last tuesday. when i got there they sprung another drug test on me and said the original was to diluted. luckily i had been riding my bike earlier that day and was killing a shit load of water so i played it off as just that, i drink a ton of water when i ride my bike. the new test came back diluted but since i had no idea i was taking another test they believe what i told them. i start work in forty-five minutes!

[circlingvultures]

haha. very nice.

[alertthemute]

I've never heard of anyone having to take a drug test for a job here unless they're applying for RCMP or Police.

[tooclosetosee]

I've never heard of anyone having to take a drug test for a job here unless they're applying for RCMP or Police.

Thats probably cuz you're in Canada.

[jonnywreck]

I've never heard of anyone having to take a drug test for a job here unless they're applying for RCMP or Police.

Thats probably cuz you're in Canada.

yea...way to rub it in, canuck!