Ok, this made me chuckle: the store "Socks Galore" has *random* drug tests

(Not that I'm applying to THAT store--just seeing if the places I'm applying will have random piss tests b/c while I'm clean now, I enjoy the good bud after a long day but do want to stay employed ya know?)

Anyway, so, apparently a sock superstore makes sure they don't have stoners manhandling the socks...which might be good policy. Knowing me, I'd try on every sock and play with them :rofl:

JK. I'd never go to work under the influence of anything...but c'mon--a SOCK store doing RANDOM piss tests? Lol.

And we seriously wonder what's wrong with America? We're concerned about the stylishness of our SOCKS?

And some restaurants do *hair* tests.

Seems a wee bit harsh to me.

And yes, a store dedicated to socks is indeed sad :)

Unless they've changed the policy very recently, Carl's Junior restaurants are only, according to my experience, tested if the store is either not making money or losing money.

Hair tests are kind of bullshit at any rate: they're not reasonably accurate, for marijuana they're pathetically easy to beat, for hard drugs they're still relatively easy to beat, and they only test what's been done in the last 1 to 9 months.

The best advice? Don't take drugs. You'll probably pass every test out there.

But that's just me.


Interesting note: Every drug test I encountered while employed with a large American county's anti-drug people had completely stopped looking for psychedelics. LSD and 'Shrooms? They're probably not testing for them. They're too busy looking for X and Coke.

I am a lab tech and I recently had to take a drug test pre-employment. But I have never been subject to random testing. When I have HAD to be tested (and its not been that frequently) its always been along side a physical to check my health status. How odd that selling socks reqruires more employer oversight than working in a lab?

:eyes:

the only way I think I could handle it.

I spotted this sign on a socks store in Hiroshima:

Little by little we are losing our privacy and people seem to not give a shit. I almost didn't get a job a few years ago because I tested positive for "morphine" :eyes: That's what they told me I was on. I had to explain that a few days before the test I had taken a prescribed Tylenol w/ codeine. I had to go back and re-test.

Now the new "war on drugs" is the "war on tobacco". People are rallying around this new war and have no problem giving up more of their privacy. They are already having tests at some companies that if they find out you used tobacco you are gone. Next it will be alcohol, then trans-fats, then maybe some swabbing to make sure you aren't fucking the wrong person.

In a way the thought of drug screening at a sock company is pretty funny, but all in all I think it is pretty shitty.

I am not a tobacco smoker, but lately, I've been siding on their side for most things because they're really getting their freedom to smoke shit on.

It's getting scarier out there...

And I do what I can to make sure I'm not blowing smoke into other people's faces. But the way that smokers are being treated is only the opening of the door to more crap like this. And it's all fun and games until something that they do gets trounced upon.

No one even questions the drug screenings these days. It's pretty well accepted to let companies check and see what you are doing on your private time and they can decide that you don't need a job. So far it is drugs and tobacco. It won't belong before they want to check on your alcohol consumption. THEN I bet some people will wake up.

and yet they never got administered because everybody from the Exec. Director to the interns smoked pot. Occasionally, on company time.

Oh the things a board of directors will waste time worrying about rather than the mission of the organization. Of course, they were all too busy to raise funds. (This is centrally-part of a board member's duties.)