Are you drug tested at work?
 

Which drugs do they test for? How often?

Yes.
All drugs of abuse detectable in urine.
Randomly from the work population, which works out to about once every other year for me.

I can't recall ever being tested, but I certainly don't test myself. I have a strict "don't be f**ked up at work" policy.

No. Apparently people don't mind hiring drugged-up market researchers.

You don't have to be f**ked at work to test positive or so they tell me.

Well, since drugs don't leave the system as quickly as alcohol, there's no good way to determine if an employee is fucked up at work, or if it's just in their system from the night before.

From an employers standpoint, I'd say I don't care if you did it at home last night or this morning when you clocked in. By testing positive, you've shown at the very least that you're willing to break the law. I can infer from that that you're more likely to break other rules, such as doing drugs on the job.

They can test for MJ from hair samples now. They just have to pluck a few out by the roots.

I've heard that test is expensive and not widely used.

Skip should be tested daily. I hear he's one of those partakers of hippie lettuce. We all know this makes him a very bad person.

In my own company, I just occasionally leave my wife's bicycle out. If no one steals it, I figure that we don't have any drug addicts in the company.

I'm a contractor and so far I've chosen not to test myself.

And you bitch about the validity of the word association game thread. Very funny.

The company where I work does random drug tests. They randomly choose 3 people per quarter. We also have 250-300 people where I work amongst the three shifts. I've been tested once in just over 6 1/2 years.

Only exception to the random rule is if we have reasonable suspiscion. I had an employee ask one of my lead operators if he wanted to go get high during lunch. I think that was reasonable enough. The next day, our Human Resources director gave the guy two options. Either quit or go for a drug test. He quit.

Was tested when I got hired and nearly 10 years later I am still waiting for the next random test.

It can't be too expensive. My wife's lab does them all the time. She says they sometimes have guys come in for pre-employment screening who have shaved their heads in hopes of somehow not being tested. Of course, the hair does not have to come from the head.