<p>The Human Resources person at this company basically gave me a co-op job during the interview. At the end of the interview, she gave me a date to come back for orientation. There was no mention of drug testing, she just said bring I.D. so we can put you on payroll and stuff.</p>
<p>For everybody who has had a job or a co-op, do they ever drug test at orientation at the company? Or do they send you somewhere else like a clinic to do the test.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>It has always been at a clinic for me. While you’re at it, maybe just don’t do any drugs and you don’t even have to worry about it.</p>
<p>I suppose if you feel you must, you could at least wait until afterward.</p>
<p>Let’s say I would go into orientation tomorrow, would they give me a location to go to within a set time period? Is it possible that they don’t even bother testing me for weeks, if at all?</p>
<p>That would probably depend a lot on the company. When I did it, they gave me a window I think where I had to set up an appointment.</p>
<p>I have worked for several companies and every time I have been drug tested, they usually give it to you as soon as they make a job offer, they usually give you 24-48 hours to get it done and the job offer is obviously contingent upon the test coming back negative.</p>
<p>I mean, think about, it would not make any sense for them to wait weeks, since you will have the chance to flush your system in the meantime</p>
<p>Why are you so concerned? Are you doing drugs? If you are, stay away from drugs, my friend, they are never the answer and you will end up dead or in jail lol.</p>
<p>I smoked weed once this past week, Total slip up and mistake. I’m not a druggie at all or anything like that. I was clean before and i’ll never do it again. Do you think I could come clean and fess up to Human Resources? Be willing to take weekly tests or something? </p>
<p>It was a mistake that my friends didn’t help me avoid. </p>
<p>It wasn’t your friends place to make you avoid smoking weed. Be a man and wear some pants. It was your decision. </p>
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Don’t tell them anything. If you want to find out if they drug test, ask HR the steps you have yet to complete and any steps you need to do after your hiring. If drug testing isn’t one of those steps, breathe. </p>
<p>In the meantime, realize that you choosing to smoke weed was your choice. No one is calling you a druggie. I am not looking down on you for it, but own up to your decision. </p>
<p>Next time, if you know your looking for a job or whatever, lay off the drugs. </p>
<p>+1 on @HPuck35 </p>
<p>You did it cause you chose to do it. Nothing else is true. At all.
All drug tests I have taken have been before employment, and contingent on employment. Never have had one upon employment.</p>
<p>If your going to party, stick with booze. </p>
<p>yeah, you all are right. I’m not blaming my friends. I was truly very stupid to smoke and am kicking myself for doing so. </p>
<p>Have you all ever heard of a situation where the human resources person administered the test themselves during orientation or something like that?</p>
<p>If you have time just drink lots of water and excersize and it will be out of your system before they can test for it. This is of course contingent on your metabolism.</p>
<p>No, you were truly stupid that you smoked when you were in the non process. Next time, wait awhile. :P</p>
<p>So I’ve been drinking lots of water, cranberry juice, taking zinc sulfate and B-vitamin supplements for the past two days while taking occasional screenings I bought at dollar tree.</p>
<p>They came up positive yesterday, but the first one today came up negative. I think I’m good to go.</p>
<p>Everybody who called me stupid in this thread is right. I’ll make sure to never screw up this bad again. Thanks</p>
<p>Drug testing will be done by health professionals at a clinic or hospital. If the company is large enough to have its own medical staff then they may do the screening at the company clinic, otherwise it will be done by an outside clinic. It would NEVER be done by the HR staff nor would it be done at orientation.</p>
<p>In your case: Don’t bring it up, don’t ask about screenings, but whatever wiggle room they DO give you to extend the date of said testing, TAKE IT. And, very importantly, don’t do any more drugs,</p>
<p>Wow everyone seems to be taking a surprisingly hard stance on marijuana. If i had employees i certainly wouldn’t want them showing up for work high, but they can do w/e they want in their private time. I’d have to say go with @cosmicfish . Also look up their testing policy if they have any. Sometimes there is a mandated wait period between your last test and your next one. Mine was 3 months min. between tests soooooo there’s wiggle room.</p>
<p>I’ve never been drug screened. I assume many companies don’t want to reject someone because of weed but don’t want to be put in the position that they can be sued for having a hostile work environment by having employees who they know smoke weed. It’s easier for them to just not know. </p>
<p>From the employer’s perspective there are many concerns. One is the fact that they may be hiring an employee who flouted the law. While this law has been changed in some states, there are many states that make possession of marijuana a crime. Using marijuana in these states shows a lack of judgement. Second, the employer has to worry about potential injury on the job and workers compensation. At my hospital, an injured employee will be immediately screened for narcotics and can not return to work until the test results are completed. Lastly, if you fail a drug test (illegal usage) at my hospital, you can not be hired, PERIOD!! If you are already employed and fail a drug test (illegal usage), you are FIRED!!! These are very harsh policies. Some employees have no patient contact whatsoever but it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>I am not making judgement on whether marijuana use is good or bad. I am just drawing attention to the employer’s risks and why they may take a hardline stance on marijuana.</p>
<p><a href=“http://ww2.cfo.com/risk-management/2013/05/drug-abuse-hikes-workers-comp-risks/”>http://ww2.cfo.com/risk-management/2013/05/drug-abuse-hikes-workers-comp-risks/</a></p>
<p>OP, you didn’t specify the industry in which you were offered your co-op job. My company does work for NASA and so the structural engineers (of which I was one) were considered “safety” related positions where you had to agree to submit to random drug testing. That meant zero tolerance for any kind of drug in your system while at work. So, while the company didn’t really didn’t want to care what you did on your own time, it really did matter. Alcohol doesn’t remain in your system for all that long, but a beer at lunch was out of the question. Problem with weed is, it does stay in your system for some length of time (as you now know well enough). You wouldn’t get fired for weed, but the consequences were bad enough (mandatory drug intervention and time off without pay) that anyone’s weed days should be over now.</p>
<p>Other positions may have the potential for some kind of industrial accident. If so, the first thing they will do is give everyone involved a drug test. Then the blame game begins. If you test positive, you become the fall guy (or at least have a tough time proving that you aren’t). Either way, your career is now ruined. </p>
<p>Bottom line, your weed days should be far behind you at this point. Think of the smoke coming off the end of the joint as your career going up in flames.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s a shame something like Cannabis can get you in trouble if you do it a couple time throughout your life where as you can be a functioning alcoholic and the only thing that’s going to get you is your liver.</p>
<p>The worst thing about marijuana is the fact that it is illegal, so I guess the game just has to be played until proper legislation passes.</p>
<p>If you worked in Silicon Valley, they don’t test for marijuana because they would lose half their workforce. Not fair at all. </p>
<p>LIFE</p>
<p>But if they work in CA where medical marijuana is legal, and assuming they have a prescription, wouldn’t their marijuana consumption be protected? Or does Federal law trump State in this case?</p>