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Part of the hiring process is drug testing. The current national credo, a drug-free environment. So we drug test for the illicit stuff. At our site we do a piss test. I tells it all. And it's not slanted - after the hiring thing, we also do random testing. My boss had his name drawn a week before mine was drawn last November. Yes, he pissed, and I did too. I was afraid about the one pain killer pill I took weeks before that after dental surgery. Nasty stuff, lots of syllables in the drug's name, knocked me out unconscious for exactly 24 hours. But no questions asked after I pissed. Long enough to clear out apparently. But I kept the empty pill bottle in the cabinet, after I flushed all the rest of the pills down the commode. Just in case I had to prove I had a prescription for that stuff for a reason.
A few months ago, we had a guy who had a good looking application, pencil-and-paper tested well, interviewed well, and he was a drug test away from hiring. A skilled position, a mechanic. He came in for it and his urine test came up positive for all sorts of things. Big question mark, but that's not the only thing, let's see if the test results were flawed. So the nurse called him back. This time, the Safety Director went into the bathroom with him.
The Safety guy was standing behind him watching, but not so much watching, if you know what I mean. That time the guy piddled with his zipper, fumbled around and kinda rubbed his pockets and messed around, made all sorts of extra motions before producing a sample in the pee cup.
As soon as the Safety Director took the cup from him, there was one obvious thing to him. The sample was cold, not body temperature. That guy didn't get hired. It was one of those buy-it kits, or it was his sister's pregnant pee or whatever. That didn't work.
Heard another story from another mill in the company network, they did it different. They take hair samples. I think it's lots more scientific and lots more expensive but that can track your intake for about 3 or 6 months. They had one guy show up hairless. No eyelashes, not a hair on him, He claimed it was a religious belief to have no hair on his body. Not a one. I mean, he had to have some help, somebody even shaved his ass.
So the nurse clipped one of his fingernails, that's DNA too. Busted.
A few months ago, we had a guy who had a good looking application, pencil-and-paper tested well, interviewed well, and he was a drug test away from hiring. A skilled position, a mechanic. He came in for it and his urine test came up positive for all sorts of things. Big question mark, but that's not the only thing, let's see if the test results were flawed. So the nurse called him back. This time, the Safety Director went into the bathroom with him.
The Safety guy was standing behind him watching, but not so much watching, if you know what I mean. That time the guy piddled with his zipper, fumbled around and kinda rubbed his pockets and messed around, made all sorts of extra motions before producing a sample in the pee cup.
As soon as the Safety Director took the cup from him, there was one obvious thing to him. The sample was cold, not body temperature. That guy didn't get hired. It was one of those buy-it kits, or it was his sister's pregnant pee or whatever. That didn't work.
Heard another story from another mill in the company network, they did it different. They take hair samples. I think it's lots more scientific and lots more expensive but that can track your intake for about 3 or 6 months. They had one guy show up hairless. No eyelashes, not a hair on him, He claimed it was a religious belief to have no hair on his body. Not a one. I mean, he had to have some help, somebody even shaved his ass.
So the nurse clipped one of his fingernails, that's DNA too. Busted.
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