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17. The first time I was piss tested at work I had to go the next morning to this outfits

Sun Oct 12, 2014, 06:41 AM

Oct 2014

office. I got there early but a couple other people had the same idea. I start out third in line and in a few minutes, two more people came in. The just had one guy working there doing everything but you could see two more work stations and they had two bathrooms to use so the place was set up for maybe four or five staff.

I had to wait 20 minutes or so to even get started. I was nice but once it was my turn I let the guy know I wasn't too happy about being forced to be there in the first place and then having to wait because they were understaffed. I'd also been rabble rousing, trying to get the other people waiting to raise hell about it too.

The name of the firm escapes me now. I knew the who the head of it was at the time and that he and his partners had lobbied heavily in our state to get drug testing legislation passed and get the contracts to allow them to set up their testing sites all over. Then of course because it's mandatory, they can get away with sticking one low paid guy in there and charge a fortune.

To my bosses credit, they were pissed off too. Federal DOT regulations had forced them to random test some employees but it was one of the breweries that mandated everyone be tested. That's when I got sucked into it.

I was a stoner and tried to "flush", drinking massed quantities of water before I went in. My results came back and though it was negative, they said the specimen was found to be diluted and recommended I be tested again with instructions not to consume large amounts of liquid beforehand. My boss called bullshit. He said, "negative is negative as far as I'm concerned" and filed it! He knew, but he didn't give a shit if I smoked or not.

That testing outfit got busted for some kind of scam before too long anyway. As far as I know, everyone just goes to a hospital or clinic to get DOT and pre-employment screenings done in my state now.

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