I think they are making things up. All they have to do, in their employment ads, is state that prospective employees will be tested for drug use.
I tend to think, as common as drugs might be, that there are good people in America who don’t do drugs and want to work.
Why don’t they release the % of potential employees that try and fail? I don’t get what anyone has to lose by taking it. Maybe they beat the test.
Freegards
There are.
Three years ago I left my job as a distribution center manager. We required drug tests for every applicant and I asked them about specific drug use during each interview, letting them know they would be tested for alcohol, weed, meth, prescription drugs, etc.
Time after time (about 50%) I was told, “No problem, I don’t do drugs” and the tests would come back positive.
The funniest was a man in his late-20’s, who, when confronted about his failed drug test, admitted that his friend who provided the sample promised that the urine was clean! It was among the most drug-addled samples I had seen.
Later, I caught this applicant, his step-mom, and step brother trying to steal racking from the back lot of the warehouse to sell for scrap.
My neighbor warehouse security guard and I held them at gunpoint until the police arrived to arrest them.
You are a winner in many ways.
Yes, this is nonsense. I can pass a drug test no problem. No one or hardly anyone ever, ever, ever responds to this online business of job seeking.
Drug tests are the least of my worries. Getting someone who actually recognizes experience and doesn’t discriminate against a non-protected class, that’s quite another.