Here’s a relevant story. I was denied my current job initially over 10 years ago due to a mandatory drug test.
I smoke pot, but instead of quitting for a few months I took one of those over-the-counter cleansing drinks before heading into my local Lab-Corp for the piss test. I thought everything was cool because the company finalized my offer and I was scheduled to come to start work at the firm the next week.
The job offer was in a different city several hours away, and the company was paying for my move. On my way to the new city, I got a call from a Lab-Corp employee who informed me that I’d failed their test. I tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, a chemical created within your body when you metabolize THC.
I was incredulous since I’d taken the expensive cleansing drink, but in reality I was super freaked out because I thought my entire future was ruined.
When I arrived at the office of my new employer the next morning, I informed the branch manager of the issue, and said, “This must be some sort of mistake! Maybe it tested positive because of a poppy-seed muffin I’d ate prior to the test?”
I really had no other recourse than absolute denial.
The boss told me that he would look into it, and I started my day at this new job with a huge cloud of dispair hanging over me.
At the end of the day the boss called me into his office with the man who was to be my direct supervisor. He informed me that Corporate would not allow him to hire me as a full-time employee with benefits due to the drug test. I said that I would be glad to retake the test, professing my innocence the entire time. He said they couldn’t legally drug test me again for 12 months.
However he said that he would hire me as a contract employee against Corporate’s wishes. It turns out that the man sitting next to me, who would become my supervisor, mentor, and eventually one of my best friends had gone to bat for me, and actually was sort of a pot head himself.
The boss offered me MORE money to be a contract employee since I would have to pay my own healthcare, retirement, and taxes (no withholding for contractors).
Months later, still sticking to my poppyseed muffin lie, it became clear that my supervisor smoked as well, and I fessed up. We went to my house and smoke up together that night.
I stopped smoking for a few months prior to my 12-month contract ending, retook the drug test, and was hired as a full time employee. I’ll celebrate my 11 year anniversary with the firm in September and get my 10-year bonus check then, since my first year as a contractor didn’t apply to that time.
zachdaddy84 on April 13rd, 2018 at 01:55 UTC »
Weird because I'm a guy...
h_jlv on April 13rd, 2018 at 02:30 UTC »
Can confirm, I always put drugs in bagels Source: Work in bagel shop
Tatertot-pie on April 13rd, 2018 at 09:47 UTC »
Here’s a relevant story. I was denied my current job initially over 10 years ago due to a mandatory drug test.
I smoke pot, but instead of quitting for a few months I took one of those over-the-counter cleansing drinks before heading into my local Lab-Corp for the piss test. I thought everything was cool because the company finalized my offer and I was scheduled to come to start work at the firm the next week.
The job offer was in a different city several hours away, and the company was paying for my move. On my way to the new city, I got a call from a Lab-Corp employee who informed me that I’d failed their test. I tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, a chemical created within your body when you metabolize THC.
I was incredulous since I’d taken the expensive cleansing drink, but in reality I was super freaked out because I thought my entire future was ruined.
When I arrived at the office of my new employer the next morning, I informed the branch manager of the issue, and said, “This must be some sort of mistake! Maybe it tested positive because of a poppy-seed muffin I’d ate prior to the test?”
I really had no other recourse than absolute denial.
The boss told me that he would look into it, and I started my day at this new job with a huge cloud of dispair hanging over me.
At the end of the day the boss called me into his office with the man who was to be my direct supervisor. He informed me that Corporate would not allow him to hire me as a full-time employee with benefits due to the drug test. I said that I would be glad to retake the test, professing my innocence the entire time. He said they couldn’t legally drug test me again for 12 months.
However he said that he would hire me as a contract employee against Corporate’s wishes. It turns out that the man sitting next to me, who would become my supervisor, mentor, and eventually one of my best friends had gone to bat for me, and actually was sort of a pot head himself.
The boss offered me MORE money to be a contract employee since I would have to pay my own healthcare, retirement, and taxes (no withholding for contractors).
Months later, still sticking to my poppyseed muffin lie, it became clear that my supervisor smoked as well, and I fessed up. We went to my house and smoke up together that night.
I stopped smoking for a few months prior to my 12-month contract ending, retook the drug test, and was hired as a full time employee. I’ll celebrate my 11 year anniversary with the firm in September and get my 10-year bonus check then, since my first year as a contractor didn’t apply to that time.
Whew.