As in, if you were applying to delivery positions but you know they’ll test for cannabis, would you even apply / interview? What about in a jurisdiction where the drug is recreationally legal?
yes, because interview practice is still worth something
And you never know what’s going to come from the interview.
Following through on an interview loop for a company in which I had little interest kept me on the recruiter’s radar, and a couple years later she got me into my current role which I love.
Did you not get that job because you failed a drug test though? I’m going to assume no.
If you get fired from a job that a recruiter got you because you failed a drug test, you’ll be blacklisted by not only that recruiter but most other recruiters in the area. Source: few good friends who are recruiters for prominent recruitment firms, they tell me stories.
Heck yeah, free training for interviews
Would you take the job if offered, knowing you’d need to restrict your cannabis use on workdays so you’re not driving high? If so, why not go for the interview with the same number of hours post-toke as you’d consider driving for the job? If you pass you pass, and if not, maybe a driving-around job is not a good fit for you. If it’s not legal, scrap the whole plan, you don’t need to be courting legal trouble.
No. While I am not a recreational drug user, drug testing is a gross violation of natural human rights and I would not want to be associated in any way with a company that engages in such unethical behavior.
I certainly hope you never have to get a job in the US.
How common is such a test in the US? I work in the US and so far, I’ve never been asked to perform a drug test, ever. Then again, maybe I’ve been lucky…
It’s fairly common. A lot of higher end jobs do it as a way of screening out undesirables. And most of the others as a way of cutting down on liability. It can depend on the organization itself. If it’s a small organization they may not care or may only care if you use the heavier stuff.
My union drug tests both before you’re hired and randomly selected. Because we are electricians and gas technician, or work along side them, the employer takes drug use very seriously.
So as a way of cutting down on liability?
Yes, because I don’t use drugs recreationally.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-III/subchapter-B/part-382
Don’t apply for a job subject to the FMCSR in the US and expect to be able to use. The feds and insurance companies don’t care if it’s legal locally. But it does pay.
Personally, no. But I’m the kind of person who walked out of a doctor’s office when they told me they wanted to regularly drug test me if I wanted them to take over my prescriptions for meds I was already on.
No. I’m not wasting my time to make a point.
Most low wage jobs in the US have a mandatory drug test when you’re hired, which is easy enough to defeat. The only things that don’t leave your system after a couple days are all the mild things like weed.
I’ve had several retail and service jobs where I had to drug test before getting hired and just took a “cleaner” from a headshop before doing them and passed each time despite using the devils lettuce in my off time, but none of these were places that do random testing after being hired. Being able to be choosy with jobs is somewhat of a luxury in the US, so consider yourself fortunate.
A delivery job is a tossup because it may be more heavily regulated than jobs that don’t involve heavy machinery. If it’s a delivery job that requires a CDL, I would skip it because you can be pulled over and tested at any time. Even marijuana can be penalized here since these jobs are covered by federal regulations and national insurance companies which have requirements for a drug free workplace.
Most low wage jobs in the US have a mandatory drug test when you’re hired
Definitely not
Just buy fake pee?
If I was desperate, and too dependent on cannabis to easily quit, then I guess? But ideally I’d quit first, as it’d become more of a legal risk if I was to drive commercially and have metabolites in my blood (doesn’t matter if you’re impaired or not)
Would I interview to a job where I know I wouldn’t get the job if they drug test before hiring, or would be fired because they would drug test me after hiring me? No, because that would be a waste of time.
Also don’t take drugs and then drive for a job please.
Yeah.
There’s always a chance they like/need you enough to give you a heads up on the test so you can have a chance to pass it.
Always worth a shot. They may never bring it up. Some places are more strict on that than others.
There are pee cleaning solutions available. I’ve never had to use them, but I know people that have passed tests with them.
There are pee cleaning solutions available. I’ve never had to use them, but I know people that have passed tests with them.
Can confirm, I’ve used them a few times. It’s always best to go clean for as long as possible before getting tested, but I’ve had success with as little as 3 days notice.
People often think these products are scams because they’re marketed like woo medicine. But that’s because they have to be, they legally can’t just put “THIS IS SO YOUR STONER ASS CAN PASS A DRUG TEST” on the label, so they have to sell it as a BS “cleanse”.
I’ve only had a few people ever tell me that they didn’t get it to work. But, those were people who I probably wouldn’t trust to follow the directions printed on a bottle, in the first place. Just stay clean for a few days and follow the instructions exactly as they’re written, and it’ll work out, in my experience.
Worst case scenario is that you’ll have a “dilute” result and will need to re-test a few days later. Do the same process the second time, and chances are you’ll come out as dilute again. Generally, if you test as dilute twice in a row, they assume that’s just your normal baseline and it’s considered a pass. I’ve never heard of anybody coming back dilute twice and ever needing a third test, nor have I heard of anybody failing a test over dilute results.
I’ve never used drugs, but I wouldn’t work for a place who would ask about it.
