Help me pass my drug test tomorrow

x-post: anthony it prob. depends if you're in the us or europe. in the us it can definitely get you fired or passed over (especially if it's civil service)

X with Anthony. Who sounds sensible too.

Depends on when you do it, though. 4 or 5 hours before won't be long enough, I don't think.

I started drinking the tea about a day or two beforehand.

xpost, yeah 4-5 hours probably won't be long enough, but it's better than doing nothing. Plus, you may give a diluted sample which would buy you some more time

If it's good enough for the government etc etc.

(Please do not be cute and link my name to this. Anyone who does will get the post deleted because, well, I'm like that.)

True. Last job I had (for um, 10 minutes), you HAD to submit to a drug test. As I don't partake of anything, I didn't care. However, they were even testing for codeine in your system---much less the usual stuff.

Thanks for all replies.

One other bit of info that might be useful for someone else in the future: Don't give your sample early in the morning, as the residue tends to build up when you sleep. Later in the day is much better.

ok it's been a week and onetwo days since i smoked last (and that was the first time since july, i think). i have a drug test tomorrow, should i be ok?

i've been drinking lots of fluids and urinating a lot.

i think it hangs out in fat cells? You should be fine, though.

cool. i'm not too worried, just worried enough. i really really need this job.

not sure how much stock I'd put in this, but supposedly people who don't smoke regularly can pass a test the day after smoking without having to do anything special. so yeah, even just drinking a lot of fluids, you should be fine.

Weed stays around the longest of anything. Some guides say 3 days after smoking once, if you are not a regular smoker. I had a drug test 2 weeks ago, so I was reading all the info I could find. Since I don't smoke, it wasn't really a big deal for me. However, if I were you, I'd take massive amounts of B complex vitamins 3-4 hours before the test and drink tons of water. B will turn yr pee bright yellow so that it may pass the sight test, at least.

it's probably not enough to show up on a test but if you wanna be safe they sell some gatorade looking stuff to drink at GNC or head shops that is supposed to help you pass.

Where I went (Qu3st), if yr pee didn't pass color or temp tests, you had to sit there and wait until you had to pee again, etc., until yr pee passed. Else, you couldn't take the test for X number of days.

One guy in my hire group refused the job on principle because he didn't believe in working for a company that does drug tests. He's also a deadhead.

passed the test! wooo! i'm employed!

:D now you can smoke all the PCP you want!

the job is at the zoo, not sure i'd want to do that lol

better than giving it to the animals

also i am jealous that you have a job at a zoo :-/

i don't believe it's true

xxpost

what are you doing lb?

Actually PCP is meant for animals, yes? Isn't it horse tranquilizers?

Congrats lb, I always wanted to work at a zoo. Well, it sounds fun at least.

You're thinking of K Abbott. PCP is anything but sleepy

Ohoho I wondered.

What is PCP, then, if it in fact has a common use besides turning people into psychotic, delirious Popeyes?

^ ask wikipedia, Tuomas!

^ Yor $o £0£z

"cool. i'm not too worried, just worried enough. i really really need this job."

so why smoke if you're looking for a job and know you can be tested?

JUST SAY NO (till you get the job)

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The More Nath Knows

What the fuck is that?

Nabisco, I always assumed that in the US you get a drug test at every job interview. Well, maybe I'm too scared. I know I'd be obsessing over this (if I was jobless) and hence would probably be living on water and bread fearing I'd fail the test. But hey whatever, right?

I'm sorry if I can't be OTM like you.

suckers

try a polygraph on for size
who here can remember every address they've lived at for the last seven years? and every overseas trip they took? month-accurate dating is crucial

I'm still waiting for that NYC parking ticket they've been hassling me about to show up on my credit report and get my career curbed

We don't have drug tests where I live. LOL.

(parking ticket is from 2003. I have no idea how they tracked me down)

(well I do, of course, but that's sketchy as all hell)

Tom, explain?

I've never had to take a drug test for a job although I've interviewed for a few.

Wait, you didn't pay for that ticket?

I don't think I'll ever understand the US even after watching way too many Beverly Hills 90210 reruns. *sadface*

Guy I know his colleague drank pure alcohol on the job. Worked in a chemical plant or something. After a while they decided it was in their best interest to fire the dude cause he was pouring the shit in his coffee.

xpost - I just wanted to make a little shooting star. It's from these TV public-service things they do.

In the U.S. you do not get a drug test at every job interview. That would make no sense. Nor do you get a drug test for every job you're actually offered. Not even close. I have never taken a drug test for any reason, even including a job that required a full-on background check.

Which, x-post, yes, included that kind of "everywhere you have lived" questioning, which kinda reduced me to sputtering: "Umm, there was this moldy basement apartment on the corner of ... am I allowed to use google for this?"

"Have you ever been arrested?"
"By actual police?"
"Yes."
"Umm, no?"
[skeptical face]

I have never done a job interview in my life. Never ever. And hope that remains so. I'd need diapers if I had to. It all seems so random what they offer as excuse when they don't hire you. "You didn't have clean nails." WTF is up with that? Or what about "You shouldn't beg for a job." Uh, dude, I wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't need a job.

I have never done a job interview in my life. Never ever.

wait, what?

i did one for old navy but didn't take the job

place where i worked in hs for 4 years woudn't drug test bcuz they would have had to fire every single employee

did one job interview that is

Ethan, I work for my parents. Nepotism ahoy.

ive probably had 50+ job interviews in my life

favorite was either one where i was drunk at 11am or when i applied for 911 dispatcher

Nath, you should go do a job interview, just do dispel these weird nightmarish notions you have about the process!

I mean, I don't know if you have some psycho Belgian-style interview process, but people generally don't offer any kind of weird fingernail-related excuse for why they didn't hire you. They will just tell you they hired another applicant. Unless it's a moderately important position and they did kind of like you, in which case you'll hear: "We decided to promote from within" or "We decided to go with someone with more marketing experience" or similar.

Things you will not hear, for reasons including various federal laws: "We would have hired you but you seemed personally offputting," "You walked in and we were like no way, that guy is CREEPY," "What exactly was the deal with those shoes?," "You made a Simpsons reference during the interview," etc.

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Ok my drug test isn't tomorrow - in fact it is currently hypothetical. I have been applying to several horrible retail jobs for summer money and they all piss-test. I am currently high right now. I a famine/feast weed smoker - when I have it I am usually high like all the time, and when I don't, well then obviously I'm not. This is usually like a monthly on/off cycle thing, and it's been several weeks since I was smoking regularly.

So say Radio Shack, beloved purveyor of cell phones and gps devices, offers me an interview tomorrow, and then the day after that they offer me the job, wherein I have 24-48 hours to take a piss test. Would it be likely that the 4-5 days I'd have to clean out before the test would be enough. Also I weigh 130 lbs. and have a high metabolism.

And I have extreme access to powerade, niacin pills and water.

lolz don't do drungs.

(Brought to you by the Las Cruces fair & balanced posting committee.)

And I have extreme access to powerade, niacin pills and water.
how extreme?

with extreme prejudice

you're gonna be fine

also radio shack sucks

Is your drug test going to be essay or multiple choice?

This is crazy - I can't imagine having to take a drug test for a fucking retail job. Unless it was for manager, but floor person? What do they think min.wage people do with their lives?

that cranberry juice shit i posted above works great.

so the company i work for right now, though not for much longer, does this thing where they drug test a whole bunch of people, fire all the positives and hire them back a month later. wtf is that? is it a scam to reset all their benefits to "new employee" levels?

Is your drug test going to be essay or multiple choice?

"I took all the drugs, but I couldn't tell what any of them were!"

go to head shop. buy "magnum" drink or similar. have no worries. (for the 4-6 hr span it works, at least)

the job is at the zoo, not sure i'd want to do that lol

-- latebloomer, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:11 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

better than giving it to the animals

-- gbx, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:19 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

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