[geeks] This bogles my mind

[Joshua D. Boyd]

The past two jobs I've had required a drug test.  Not only is it legal to
require it, but I get the impression that there can be serious legal
ramifications if an employer doesn't require it.  But, I'm not sure about
that.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, David Cantrell wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:06:37PM -0500, Chad A. Chance wrote:
> 
> > ... my drug test ...
> 
> Your WHAT?!?!?!  Bloody 'ell, never heard of privacy or civil liberties?
> I believe that that would be legal over here, but NO-ONE I have heard of
> does them unless they actually suspect an employee of being a crack-head.
> 
> > I just got off the phone and they said they are going to continue looking
> > for someone else, and that they didn't want me for the position...What's up
> > with that?
> > This makes no sense, luckily I had another job lined up so it's not that
> > much of a loss, but I really wanted the other job.
> 
> Same happened to me recently.  Had the interview, had a second interview.
> Both went well.  We argued a bit about the package and they made me an
> offer (verbally).  Waited for the contract to arrive.  Waited longer.
> Started hassling the agent I'd gone through, who hassled them.  Waited
> more.  FINALLY got a start date, and was told that the contract would be
> waiting in the office for me to go through.  THREE DAYS before I was due
> to start, I was told that they were withdrawing the offer.
> 
> I already had the interview lined up at the BBC, as well as another offer
> from a (shock horror!) profitable dot-com with a reasonably long trading
> history, so didn't bother chasing them.  My attitude is that if they
> treated me like shit before I started, then I don't want to work for them
> anyway.
> 
> -- 
> David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
> 
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