My employer cold calls people. If you are contacted, you have 2 hours to report to the “wellness center” (on site) to take your drug test. If they cant get a hold of you, they call your boss. Then its their responsibility to track you down.
If youre a remote employee, there are labs all over the country that are approved facilities for you to go to and take the test.
We do random drug tests every quarter. And being selected doesnt exclude you from future testing. You could, in theory, be tested 4 times a year.
I personally havent been pulled in about 8 years, but the guy sitting next to be got it last week.
It aint like that around here. Ive been here for 15 years and have only heard of 1 person failing a drug test. And he was a hell of an employee. Impossible to replace.
And it is random. The selection is orchastrated by a third party. All we do is provide an up-to-date list of names every quarter. They handle the selection and all other logistics/coordination required
Not the commenter you replied to but I work in Canada at a NERC controlled facility and I don’t get drug tested that hard. One test when I got hired and the agreement that they can test on suspicion or with probable cause. The only way I get randomed is if I had to do recovery paid for by my company for drugs or alcohol? And the only guarantee is being involved in an incident.
So to me it sounds like that commenter is working in America, probably in the south? Super anti drug and random drug tests are used to weed out minorities as well.
Also as an aside the fact you can go on a meth bender and test negative a couple days later, but legal weed in my country is flagged is fucked… and yes even though it’s legal in Canada they can’t prove the difference between recent use or intoxication, so if it shows up on a test you pissed hot and need to deal with it.
My employer cold calls people. If you are contacted, you have 2 hours to report to the “wellness center” (on site) to take your drug test. If they cant get a hold of you, they call your boss. Then its their responsibility to track you down.
If youre a remote employee, there are labs all over the country that are approved facilities for you to go to and take the test.
We do random drug tests every quarter. And being selected doesnt exclude you from future testing. You could, in theory, be tested 4 times a year.
I personally havent been pulled in about 8 years, but the guy sitting next to be got it last week.
Random. Sure. I bet there’s a bunch of managers sitting around trying to guess who’s on drugs by minuscule drops in performance.
It aint like that around here. Ive been here for 15 years and have only heard of 1 person failing a drug test. And he was a hell of an employee. Impossible to replace.
And it is random. The selection is orchastrated by a third party. All we do is provide an up-to-date list of names every quarter. They handle the selection and all other logistics/coordination required
Be vague, but can you tell us what industry you work in?
Aviation/aerospace
Not the commenter you replied to but I work in Canada at a NERC controlled facility and I don’t get drug tested that hard. One test when I got hired and the agreement that they can test on suspicion or with probable cause. The only way I get randomed is if I had to do recovery paid for by my company for drugs or alcohol? And the only guarantee is being involved in an incident.
So to me it sounds like that commenter is working in America, probably in the south? Super anti drug and random drug tests are used to weed out minorities as well.
Also as an aside the fact you can go on a meth bender and test negative a couple days later, but legal weed in my country is flagged is fucked… and yes even though it’s legal in Canada they can’t prove the difference between recent use or intoxication, so if it shows up on a test you pissed hot and need to deal with it.