I am in the job market and was wondering what your strategies are?
Honestly this has always been a serious source of stress for me. Pot is a true medicine to me that really helps with my particular issues. As both a chunky person and daily smoker its very hard for me to abstain for the ~two months needed. Even then its not gurenteed out of your system right?
So I always went with synthetic and its always a stressful day going in and hoping for the best somehow worrying I’ll get caught and jailed. I hate it hate it hate it.
Now a days I hear that because medical is so normalized lots of companies either don’t care or have policies for it. I hear stories on the internet of how people just straight admit in the interview and ask if its okay. Do any of you actually go for this strategy?
Detox never seemed right to me. Combination of snake oil marketing and flushing out your system really fast seems sketchy.
The way drug test are implemented has never seemed fair or put in place for a good reason beyond company insurance policy requiring it. Coke heads, alcoholics, pill poppers, shrooms munchers, cigarette smokers, none of them get shafted like us pot smokers do on the piss test. Its kind of unjust if it targets one demographic way harder than others.
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Your job is wants to collect your fkin Urine? That’s a major invasion of privacy! I would not work at a company doing this.
I live in Canada where this lunacy isn’t even a thought people have. Drug testing is ridiculous. Individuals who require secret level security clearance here don’t even get tested.
I have no answer for you so I’m sorry. I’m just mad you have to even consider any of this.
This needs to go in the “Things Americans aren’t ready to hear” topic. 😭
Came here to say this. My first job was working as a contractor working with border services and required security clearance, the most I had to do was get my fingerprints done. The fact that someone looking for anything but very specialized jobs had to think about this is unimaginable to me.
If you’re serious about it, stop smoking when you start looking for a job. When/if you land the job feel it out for a few months and if you feel comfortable then start again. Taking a break every now and then is good for you, and if it’s to better yourself for a job then all the better.
I don’t live in a fucking dystopia where getting a mall clerk job requires you to pass a pot test. Jesus guys, how are you not revolting?
some are pretty revolting
If a prospective employer wants me to piss in a cup then that’s a pretty big red flag that I’m not going to be a good fit for that culture. Trust works both ways. Also, it’s just plain weird.
Depends on the job. My old one just did it to keep clients happy and ignored weed. The owner said he wouldn’t do drug tests at all if it wasn’t required by their contracts.
Yeah, if your company does government contracts then they probably need to do a cursory test just to keep up appearances.
Yeah, drug tests are a hard pass for me. Only thing that kind of sucks it that a CDL might be useful but that requires regular testing, too.
A lot of this depends upon the industry and position. An employer can find that they are paying higher insurance premiums if they can’t prove that they put due diligence into ensuring that their workforce isn’t getting high before that forklift accident.
It’s not about trust, it’s about what’s cheaper.
It is about trust. You’re saying that employers are making decisions where they’re trusting their employees less in return for money.
If it was about the wellbeing of the company they would be testing C suite execs as they have the power to ruin a company yet they don’t get tested at all in my experience.
Working for a school district, there’s a reason we don’t drug test. Can’t do that if you want teachers. Lol. If I were to apply for a new job, I’d say it’s medical. I have a Med card in my state.
I worked in restaurants in high school and the idiot owner of one wanted to start drug testing.
I took a poll, and he would have had to fire like 70% of the day shift and 90% of the night shift. If they had tested for alcohol they would have to fire everyone.
If the job is under the mistaken notion that an employee’s off-time weed use has something to do with their employment, they can correct their mistake or hire a bitch.
Yeah, I’d rather piss on them than piss in a cup for them.
Doesn’t matter if I were actually using or not. It’s none of their business.
Quick fix from your closest head shop, follow the instructions. Has worked for me for the last 20 years, even specific gravity tests
It’s obviously dumb to require a drug test as a condition for employment. With that said, if you can’t go a few weeks with partaking, you’re now talking about addiction.
easy to say if you don’t live with debilitating pain i guess. going 3 months without the only thing that makes my life comfortable would be miserable. i COULD do it, but i don’t want to be forced to because of some horse shit policy
Agreed, that’s definitely an exception.
Thank you for saying this. I had similar thoughts when I read this when considering over my personal situation but was worried it was copium thinking. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks these kind of statements as un-nuanced.
Do people who think like this consider those with depression or severe ADHD or insomniacs who take their medication daily as evidence of addiction as well?
I can stop any time without symptoms of severe withdraw, but when I do stop my quality of life diminishes greatly due to the legitimate medical problems I suffer which the pot helps alleviate. Its MEDICINE with relatively few side affects compared to pharma shit.
Now when I smoked cigarettes and had severe body jitters and constant nicotine craving for weeks when I quit? Yeah, thats actual addiction.
Also just subjectively two to three months is not ‘a few weeks’. 8-12 weeks is not a short amount of time. I shouldn’t have to suffer significant fractions of a year just to jump through arbitrary hoops set by insurance companies.
Live hack: living in a country where employers dont do that shit
I always used fake urine. I copped to being medical once at an interview and the lady told me I was wasting her time lmfao
I got so tired of bullshit that I ultimately started my own business, I’m never going to drop myself.
It’s rare for anyone to test for weed here since legalization, outside of government jobs or anything overseen by the federal government (like driving trucks which falls under the DOT).
What da fuck? None of the above.
I look for jobs that don’t give a shit or don’t ask.
That pretty much leaves “unskilled” jobs like retail or foodservice.
Other fields are not testing or testing and ignoring weed. IT, coding, engineering, most companies aren’t screening for weed anymore because they lose out on too much talent.
Too bad I didn’t go to college.
You don’t need to go to college to work in IT.
I didn’t either. It effects how much I make which sucks but I make enough to live.
