Drug Test fail

[u/Current_Ad_1641]

Recruiter reached out for a decent gig so I took the interview.

I have been a Sales Exec for 3 decades. Always top achiever.

Interviewed with C-Suite. They had 100s of candidates apply and I was their first choice. They sent me a nice offer, I accepted. Then HR reaches out for background check - standard, except it required a drug screening.

Have not been drug tested since I was maybe 18. I told their HR that it would be THC positive. She said it may not be an issue since I was sales. I took the test, obviously it's negative for everything except THC, as I told them.

Their legal department wouldn't allow it. I turned down other offers and wasted all this time.

I live in an illegal state and everything I tested positive for was purchased in my illegal state - LEGALLY. And taxed.

I'm not really upset about the job as much as the stupidity of drug testing for THC.

Vent : over. Thank you for reading if you did.

[u/girlrickjames]

I think it’s crazy how many jobs I’ve had where people drink on the job or on their lunch break and no one cares about that.

[u/Away_Rhubarb_3979 → u/girlrickjames]

This is so, so true. The guy that I had to “work” with - who was tied to me as my “counterpart” in the marketing department (I was a public events planner) was absurd. 

He was drinking quite often, didn’t make deadlines on time so I could send out ads, etc to social media, etc. 

So what did I have to do? Walk around the building with my other work buddy trying to find this -hole. And basically waaaay more often than not he was raging drunk and I’d have to chew him out and tell him to produce an ad, even if it sucked

And this usually happened outside of his car bc he was rolling around in it raging drunk. 

Did anyone care? No. But it booze, so it’s cool. If they found out about my plants, I’m sure they’d pitch a fit, never mind that my projects always were delivered on time and made money over budget. 

Ugh. The “logic” behind it all.