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

[seci.livejournal.com]

drug (plural drugs)
1. (medicine) Substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
2. (medicine) A substance, often addictive, which affects the central nervous system.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drug (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drug)

Any mind altering substance, to include nicotine and caffeine, could technically be qualified as a drug. There are more legal drugs than illegal. And, like it or not, in this age of "at will" employment, employers really do have the right to make stipulations potential employees (you) may not agree with.

But on the issue of random drug testing for nicotine, perhaps you should think instead of how to avoid failing the test, is this a company you truly would want to become entangled in. It is quite possible that there would be deeper issues (problems?) you would run into working for this company.

[txcowpatties.livejournal.com]

If you come to another game with me, you can ask the owner of pavestone himself. I dont even know if he knows about that. Bob is an easy guy to talk to (at least for me) so it would be interesting to see what he has to say about that.

[40hex.livejournal.com]

This sort of thing is on the rise; even the UN is doing it (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10296844/).