Drug Test? Job Application - Page 5

Royboy39 · 08-06-2008, 15:43

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

He needs friends

That's very funny Margaret.............I think your misery shell may be cracking

keetah992000 · 08-06-2008, 15:54

i think the drug testing could get complicated - there are many prescription AND over the counter drugs that athletes cant take because of something or other that is in them -
and it could look like they have taken performance enhancing drugs when they havent -
i think one of the british players used a vicks nose sniffy thing (cant remember what they called sorry ) and in america they had something different in them which was related to amphetamine - or showed up as such - i think he was suspended until they found out what it was --

so where would the protection be from things like this ?

keetah992000 · 08-06-2008, 15:56

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Originally Posted by cashman

i think its very shakey ground, seem to remember n athlete being banned fer illegal substances n then it turned out it was summat else.

its not the druggies that concern me in this, its the ordinary people.

i think that was probably the same incident as i jjust posted

steeljack · 08-06-2008, 17:05

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

Dont see why not - id probably test positive anyway .... one of my tablets is valium based and if they refused me the job on that then i could get them for discrimination.

surely the fact that you are on 'valium' is or should be an automatic disqualification from some jobs , so why do you feel you have an entitlement to sue ? thats as insane as someone who has lost both feet sueing because he's not allowed to join a clog dancing troupe.

shillelagh · 08-06-2008, 17:26

The some jobs that you say i wouldnt probably apply for anyway because of the medical condition.

You ever been told to your face that you are over qualified for the job and that he would hire you in a flash .... just to be told that because of the medical condition that he wouldnt hire you? I have .... oh and it was an office juniors job and it was a solicitor that said it. That is the kind i meant.

folly · 08-06-2008, 23:21

i work for for a company that delivers to a main super market which requires the tests and if we have a small accident or crack a lens we have to have a drug & alcohol test . the alcohol test is the same as the police .the drug test they have to get a doctor in. you have to give a sample of urine which they dip a strip of card in which shows strips if your positive. before the test you are asked if you are on any medication. if you fail because of your medication you are supended.for a week or two with full pay, ( which gets abused if you cant get hols )its we known which medicines fail the test .til the result comes back. if you fail because of other substances you are sacked. the doctor charges about £350 a test. i have now worked for two firms that give drug tests on the interview.

cashman · 08-06-2008, 23:29

yeh talking firms in scotland folly? they seem to have differant rules fer many things.

folly · 08-06-2008, 23:34

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Originally Posted by cashman

yeh talking firms in scotland folly? they seem to have differant rules fer many things.

this one is from sainsburys so all the sainsburys depots have the same rules

jaysay · 09-06-2008, 10:01

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Originally Posted by cashman

yeh talking firms in scotland folly? they seem to have differant rules fer many things.

Thats whats so bloody stupid about this country now cashy, different rules for scottlan than us on many thinks, its mad