News to me

[trickykitty]

Ok, someone has to verify this for me because I've just never heard of it and I think I will have to start learning how to make a noose if it's true.

A company (in Texas and a few other states) reserves the right to fire someone if nicotine shows up on a drug screen.

I was just informed during this morning's interview with Pavestone that they treat nicotine like a drug. (Yes, txcowpatties, I interviewed with Pavestone - it's all your fault I even noticed their ad.) They couldn't tell me how long it stays in your system and they were even saying that there's the unproven argument of second hand smoke in your system. But they still conduct random drug screens for it (and all of the other unmentionables) anyway.

I bought a pack of cigarettes on my way home from the interview.

If I had known about the nicotine thing early in the interview then my answers to "how would a co-worker describe you" would have been a lot different: OCD from hell, highly analytical to the point of being Spock, and well, just weird - she's just weird. (After all, the politically correct "normal" person doesn't have any other way of describing me.)

Song of the day: Signs - "Long-haired freaky people need not apply"

Comments

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

I think I might have been interviewed in his office. They were mentioning when "he" would get out of his meeting and there was a big framed news article with him in a Tornado's jersey and the rink in the background on the wall. I can't picture another employee having that particular picture up on the wall like that. There were other pictures around, but I never got close enough to tell if they were of him.

There was something specific about the actual job that doesn't sit well with me. I'd be working in a team of 5 administrative assistants at the bottom rung level. I don't think I would work well in that type of job as a team. Clerical stuff I prefer to work on my own.

I'm not completely discounting them, but they just moved a bit further down on my options list.

[txcowpatties.livejournal.com]

Thats cool, I know the guys at the Tornado Office love working for him, they say he a great boss and they have great benefits packages, now of course were talking about the Tornado people, so not sure if he is a different guy with hockey then with his business.