fmtjfw
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- Fairmont, WV, USA
Drug tests
Drug tests
When drug tests first appeared on the scene (maybe the '80s), we had a lot of federal customers. Whenever one would call with a question (I was the software architect of a operating system popular at the national "energy" labs) I'd always preface my response with "you can't trust my answer because I haven't peed in a cup in the last 30 days." They would always come back with "all right Williams, just answer the question."
I indicated that I would not, as a matter of principle, provide samples for drug testing. This is why:
I and the guy in charge of the 18 wheeler fleet shared the same name. One day I got an envelope with an address so screwed up, it was a wonder the post office had gotten it to the company (150,000 employees). It contained the results for a truck driver's drug test. I raised Holy ____, the powers that be finally assured me that the communications were going to be secured between the testing company and the trucking division to wit: encrypted fax connection to a locked room.
A month later I got a call from the local mail room about the long fax addressed to me.
This happened twice more.
By the way:
1) I've never smoked tobacco (except for 2nd hand smoke)
2) I've never smoked weed (except for walking by a barracks during the Vietnam War Era)
3) I've never drunk coffee
4) I've had 1 bottle of beer on my son recommendation.
5) I'll drink maybe 0.2L of wine on a holiday
6) I'll drink mixed drinks on the islands or a cruise ship.
7) The idea of taking a drug not prescribed by a doctor is just not plausible.
8) When prescribed "pain" pills I usually take the first day or two and then quit.
I had several alcoholic Aunts and I don't want go down that road, even a little way.
Drug tests
When drug tests first appeared on the scene (maybe the '80s), we had a lot of federal customers. Whenever one would call with a question (I was the software architect of a operating system popular at the national "energy" labs) I'd always preface my response with "you can't trust my answer because I haven't peed in a cup in the last 30 days." They would always come back with "all right Williams, just answer the question."
I indicated that I would not, as a matter of principle, provide samples for drug testing. This is why:
I and the guy in charge of the 18 wheeler fleet shared the same name. One day I got an envelope with an address so screwed up, it was a wonder the post office had gotten it to the company (150,000 employees). It contained the results for a truck driver's drug test. I raised Holy ____, the powers that be finally assured me that the communications were going to be secured between the testing company and the trucking division to wit: encrypted fax connection to a locked room.
A month later I got a call from the local mail room about the long fax addressed to me.
This happened twice more.
By the way:
1) I've never smoked tobacco (except for 2nd hand smoke)
2) I've never smoked weed (except for walking by a barracks during the Vietnam War Era)
3) I've never drunk coffee
4) I've had 1 bottle of beer on my son recommendation.
5) I'll drink maybe 0.2L of wine on a holiday
6) I'll drink mixed drinks on the islands or a cruise ship.
7) The idea of taking a drug not prescribed by a doctor is just not plausible.
8) When prescribed "pain" pills I usually take the first day or two and then quit.
I had several alcoholic Aunts and I don't want go down that road, even a little way.