Just... Why?

[draco664]

Currently, I'm working on a construction site. (Not in any physically productive role mind you, I drive a desk...) A construction site in the UK on a government project. One of the things that is frowned upon is drug use. Well, a little bit more than frowned upon, if you get my meaning.

Let's put it this way. Everyone on their first day is given a Drug and Alcohol test. If you fail, you are escorted from the site and told not to come back. Ever.

You are also told that at any time, for any reason, the health and safety guys can hand you a cup and tell you to pee.

If you fail, again, you are escorted off the site and told never to return.

So, given this level of intolerance, I'd like to pose a hypothetical question.

If you are fscking stupid enough to take drugs before work, should you brag about it out loud in the canteen, or should you keep you fscking mouth shut?

Honestly, I work (I mean... worked) with morons.

[HYHYBT]

It makes as much sense as the cashier I had who had two jobs, and told me about how at the other one she would spit in peoples' sandwiches without their noticing, or the other one who showed me this great "new" system he'd worked out how to steal a dollar per order without getting caught by not ringing up the drinks.

He was actually being nice, and thought I'd like to try it too.

[draftermatt]

I hired a girl one time, who after the interview looks at me and says "Can I ask you a personal question?"

I'm a bit worried as to what this might be but "Sure"

"Do you drug test?"
"No"
"Ok good, I mean it's not all the time but mistakes happen"

Oddly enough she was arrested a few months later for possession.

[ShadowTiger]

I am still afraid of bagels for this very reason. It only takes one poppy seed bagel brought home with delicious butter on top and maybe some whitefish or something, to be fired for being f*ing high according to tests. (I dunno, never been high.)

They don't have any safeguards against the inevitable poppy seed bagel, do they.

[Geek King]

They don't have any safeguards against the inevitable poppy seed bagel, do they.

Check local laws on drug testing, but every place I've worked, you provided enough for at least two tests. If you failed one, they either immediately retested the sample with a more comprehensive test that is more expensive, but can tell the difference between poppy seeds and refined opiates, or you could request a retest. Also, upon failure, they would request information on medications/environmentals that might affect the test. For legal reasons, most places are pretty careful about confirming drug testing failures.

[Broomjockey]

It only takes one poppy seed bagel

It takes more than one poppyseed bagel, and they can tell the difference between poppyseed and heroin in your system. If they couldn't tell the difference between different types of drugs of the same type, drug testing would be pretty much useless, since you can get so much stuff OTC.

Taking depressants? Buy NyQuil to cover your tracks. Taking stimulants? Buy caffeine pills. But that doesn't work.

Lastly, poppies grown for drug use have been bred for maximum yield. Generic "for food" poppies don't have nearly the levels, if any at all, of the drug poppies. It's like the difference between marijuana and hemp seeds (please, no one turn this in to any kind of Fratching tangent, it's an example of the same plant bred to have divergent characteristics).