I get randomly tested at work... anyone else? What to do?

you need to think if your job is worth the risk if you think you can get a new job just in case, then do it just think first

 

What is more important?

Your job or weed?

 

Damn I used to make 250 - 300 a week working like 20 hours at a shitty job part time at the end of high school.

Try to find a better job... maybe at a supermarket? They almost never test(except preliminary) and it usually pays pretty well for a starting job.

^^Harris Teeter(if u have one near you) pays like almost $10.00 as a starting wage if I remember correctly

 

Sorry, I know this isn't going to be helpful...but the drug testing thing is so random to me. We don't have this in the UK, with the exception of some very specific jobs (I looked it up - apparently employees of the police and prison service get tested and people who do jobs with serious health and safety implications for drug use, such as people who operate heavy machinery and public transport.) And the employee has to consent to the test. As I understand it they are within their rights to refuse a test and I'm not sure what the employer can do about it, if anything.

If a company intends to drug test here, they have to tell you at the very start of your employment and put it into your contract in writing and have you sign it. If they don't do this, and they try to test you, they'd be up shit creek without a paddle.

I've lived in the UK my whole life (almost 26 years) and I have never heard of anyone getting a drug test in any job. If they tried to make it more widespread here there would be complete civil uproar. People wouldn't agree to it. But in the US it really bothers me how companies think they have the right to control what their employees do on their time off. As long as you don't come into work drunk/blazed/whatever, I don't see that an employer has any right to ask what you do when you're on your own time. I read somewhere that some American companies won't employ smokers? (As in tobacco smokers). To an English person, that's insanely intrusive.

It's fucking Big Brother watching you, I'm telling you. Employers should have no right to pry into a worker's personal pastimes UNLESS there's a clear impact on their work performance. I never turn up to work high - I wouldn't be so irresponsible. Due to the nature of my job which is working with people, some of whom are quite high risk through mental issues or their history of offending, I have to be alert, able to think on my feet and could not get away with being high at work, nor would I be able to do my job effectively. Most people in my office admit to some sort of drug use, and many of my colleagues smoke weed. The unspoken understanding is that if you're discreet about it and don't turn up with red eyes and reeking of weed, you're good to go.

 

From what I've heard the synthetic stuff only works on the cheap quick tests you would pick up at like a walgreens but if they do actual lab work then they should be able to tell its synthetic.

 

Hey man I'm pretty sure they notify you first or you could always just say you can't piss can I take it the next day I really don't think they'd care just leave it in your car with a heating packet and your good to go

 

i wouldnt recommend any additives, synthetic urine or bust i guess. i agree to the above poster about human rights, its massively controlling and straight up weird that all our american companies drug test

 

Such a waste of funds. The only people the probably catch are harmless stoners anyway.

 

It all depends on if you want to take the chance or not. Im sure 7/10 people would choose to smoke and take the risk. Like you said its far and few between, but it could happen. If you want to strap piss to your leg everyday before work just to be safe, thats your choice.

 

if you value money (which it seems to me you do, as you said "money, pussy, weed") I'd say do not rely on that synthetic crap... if you are a yuppie (young urban professional) being fired for a drug offense will kill the crap out of your resume. that being said, I'v been employed non stop by a number of different businesses since the summer of eighth grade, thats something like nine years, and I'v never been drug tested. you just gotta get the right type of job.

 

thats the hypocrisy of drug tests too, any heroin user could test clean within 4 days or so but we have to be clean for typically a month for a clean test, its ridiculous. im clean now, have been for a little over a month now. its a bummer, but whats the point really? i still do my job as good as anyone else and work my ass off, idk

 

I get randoms but I get called and walk down to the nurse, unescorted. I piss and then pound water all the way there. When I piss, I catch the urine midstream. I've passed 6 of them so far. *knocks on wood*. Woot!

 

Keep your head up brother.