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Yeah when you said you were reinstated and the HR quit I knew exactly what it was. How horrible does that look for the lady who approved that to see that one she created a crisis situation, and 2 cost the hospital a shit ton of money on drug tests that were all voided anyways.

I worked in a business where the owner asked every supervisor to come in for a meeting. There's over 20 of us in a room, and he starts saying how he wants to drug test employees, which is right about the moment where near every supervisor told him that he'd need to restaff everyone, including them. So he was pragmatic enough to take the feedback and not do it lol. Fortunate it was a company where the owner is friends with everyone so people didn't mind speaking up against it right away.

My sister is an executive at Marriott who was talking with a recruiter crying about how many good hires get turned down bc of their drug test. She kinda got in her case and made her resonate what the real issue was here. This particular recruiter is in Mass where marijuana is legal, so yeah pretty normal they're going to lose a lot of people, then on top of THC takes forever to leave your body. Supposedly they're talking about waving THC testing like Amazon did, but Marriott is owned by Mormons so hard to tell if that will go far.

But yeah stupid, doesn't help anyone, the employer or employee

A couple years ago I got an offer for a remote job at Rutgers. After accepting I was told I had to take a drug test. Zero tolerance policy. I said, well, that’s not gonna work out, I can literally walk to a couple dispensaries in a few minutes and I do all the time.

They said we understand, can’t make an exception, best of luck. I was annoyed but moved on. Two weeks later they reached out again — they say they have changed their policy (what? The entire university? In two weeks? Again what? Lol).
If you live in a legal weed state, it’s now fine. But I still have to test for other stuff.

Okay. I go to a local testing center. They immediately ask if I’ve used anything. I said yes, weed. They say, this test is gonna detect it — it’s specifically going to test for it. I said I know, apparently Rutgers doesn’t care. The guy was looking at me like “It’s your funeral.”

Couple of days later I get a call — I failed the test. I said great, works for me. They said I could come retake it in case it’s a false positive. And of course they asked me whether I smoked weed, and were aghast when I said “I definitely smoked weed like 5 times last week.” They were so confused lol and reacted as though I had just thrown myself into a fire. “You know you’ve failed this test right? The employer specifically is testing you for weed. I’m not sure you understand…”

I started the job 2 days later. I still wonder if they changed that policy or just looked the other way to fill a badly needed position. It was only a 9 month gig and thru a temp agency.

The same thing basically happened again to me with another gig later on lol — except it was even more drawn out and messy. People are clueless.

I used to have a friend group from college who would take a weekend cabin trip every year somewhere around the beginning of January. (for anyone in SoCal, we'd go to Lake Arrowhead)

As per usual, there were some drugs, mostly weed, but some people may bring shrooms or something else as well.

Well, at the beginning of 2020, i had just started a new job on Monday, and the following weekend was the trip. Now, i swear i had read somewhere in a message, the job listing, the paperwork i signed, or SOMETHING that said they would be drug testing.

Everyone at the job was pretty awesome, got along incredibly well, and were pretty open with each other. So during one of the conversations earlier in the week, i talked to them about the cabin trip because i was excited about it.

But the whole first week of training, i was just waiting to be told when the drug test would be, how it would happen, etc. But next thing i knew, it was Friday around lunchtime, and there was no mention of it.

So i decided to casually slip in during a conversation something along the lines of "hey, so when do we get drug tested again?". The managers just kinda looked out of the side of their eye at me, laughed, and said, "we dont drug test, have fun on your cabin trip."

Later on, i got a little more context talking to one of the managers (he was actually flown out from the main office in Chicago for our hiring). He told me a conversation he had with the owner of the company years prior and was basically told something along the lines of "Do you think (other manager) would still work here if we drug tested?" and "i dont care what you do on your off time, as long as you get your job done properly and arent clearly intoxicated/high while at work."

Ill be working here 4 years in January. Best job ive ever had.