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Drug test query
I see a lot of posts here about drug tests. I live in Australia, and they are uncommon unless you are an elite athlete. How often and what circumstances are you poor guys getting tested?
It's quite a bizarre notion to me.. |
some schools and workplaces have random drug testing.
some workplaces as part of the hiring process have drug testing. |
Pilots, railroad engineers, truck-drivers, and some cab companies are doing it.
Any job with Haz-mat training has regular tests. There are a lot of jobs that are requiring them just to get hired. I think this is more an insurance deal then actually worrying about drug use. |
Ive worked in US government and private sector and all of my jobs have "reserved the right" to drug test but none of them ever have. Ive got a new job with the State Department starting soon though so they will definately test me this time. No worries though. Im clean.
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Random drug testing is illegal in California. The most they do is a test before they hire you and when they have justification for a subsequent test. Like you cause an accident. I don't know the rules in other states.
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I think that in Australia, they're more worried about your being killed by a snake or a spider at home than they are about your dying of a drug overdose.
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I've had a couple jobs where they drug test you before hiring, and then reserve the right to random drug tests, but have never had a random. And in the last few years at my current company they drug tested three employees, cause someone saw them driving into work smoking a blunt on the way.
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Thanks for the replies, it's quite interesting. I thought about turning this thread into a bit of a rant about how it's a huge breach of civil liberties but I couldn't be assed. |
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Watch out for the gigantic ants down there. |
I'd be more worried about the legal ones. I'm sure you've compared the statistics on alcohol vs. combined total of every other drug out there..
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