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Drug testing

  • 25-07-2013 1:32pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1


    Hi guys,

    Looking for abit of help? Im going for a job interview in a couple of weeks time and I'm pretty sure I will be clean. I have heard that there is a test available to check yourself at home does anyone know where i could get one? :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Your local garda station


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭fonda


    If you get a home test kit you should take some heroin before just to make sure the test kit works properly!

    Maybe some crack too just to be double sure!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    Most good pharmacies sell them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭frank reynolds


    Did you sign a form/waiver to say it was a test for Drugs??? if not, then it's not a valid test and can't be used against you.

    when it is a drug test, the company/employer has to legally EXPLICITLY state this as a fact.

    otherwise it's a p!ss test, and part of a run-of-the-mill procedure for employment


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord



    otherwise it's a p!ss test, and part of a run-of-the-mill procedure for employment

    What is a piss test if it's not for drugs? Testing for reptilian DNA?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    ScumLord wrote: »
    What is a piss test if it's not for drugs? Testing for reptilian DNA?

    Diabetes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    have you tried your local chemist?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭King George VI


    Home testing kits are directly licked to FBI and Garda headquarters, so if you test positive they'll bash your door down immediately and arrest you. You're better off staying on drugs and not getting a job.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    More than likely be a Piss test. Just depends how deep they go. You can get detox kits that will give you a clear test if drank a hour before the test.

    Also Codine and the stronger flu tablets will give you a positive result so if uve taken them bring the packet with you to show the tester what it is uve taken.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭frank reynolds


    ScumLord wrote: »
    What is a piss test if it's not for drugs? Testing for reptilian DNA?

    any illnesses that may affect him as an employee, in terms of sick leave/pay etc.

    it's not a drug test. i've had a few tests like this before in my early twenties when i was taking e's a good bit at some weekends, and smoking joints all the time, and it was grand then. i did my research at the time, and asked a few people i knew had done a REAL drug test, and that's how i knew.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭renegademaster


    JOB83 wrote: »
    Hi guys,

    Looking for abit of help? Im going for a job interview in a couple of weeks time and I'm pretty sure I will be clean. I have heard that there is a test available to check yourself at home does anyone know where i could get one? :D

    i presume its hash or weed you're worrying about but rest assured if you've stopped now and won't be tested for 10 days or more you will be ok, if you were smoking 2/3 grams a day you would need 16 - 21 days but nobody smokes €50/60 worth of smoke a day so you should be grand.

    for all other drugs they're out of your system within 2 - 4 days so again nothing to worry about there either.

    good luck with your interview


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 328 ✭✭becost


    JOB83 wrote: »
    Hi guys,

    Looking for abit of help? Im going for a job interview in a couple of weeks time and I'm pretty sure I will be clean. I have heard that there is a test available to check yourself at home does anyone know where i could get one? :D

    Bring a pouch of Capri-Sun with you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    You supply them...I'll test them :D;)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    ScumLord wrote: »
    What is a piss test if it's not for drugs? Testing for reptilian DNA?
    Or pregnancy because a lot men lie about that sort of thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Drugs are bad ! ...........MKAYYYYYYYY?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    ScumLord wrote: »
    What is a piss test if it's not for drugs? Testing for reptilian DNA?

    Suitability for weekend long banking junket piss ups?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭irishgirl19


    If you do not give your consent to get one then you definitely won't get the job so just make sure you say yes


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,549 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    What kind of job is it that they want you to do a drugs test? I never thought it was done outside the US.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    toke of weed and you're fired. drink 3 litres of vodka over the weekend, np


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭irishgirl19


    What kind of job is it that they want you to do a drugs test? I never thought it was done outside the US.

    In my experience most places just ask you would you do one but never actually carry one out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭worded


    I worked in a place that required a urine test / medical before contract offer.

    Got the job and it was a dreadful place to work.
    Turned out they were taking the piss right from the start


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Mr. Chrome


    I could pass any drugs test, go on, ask me a question on drugs ;-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    ScumLord wrote: »
    What is a piss test if it's not for drugs? Testing for reptilian DNA?


    I work for a drugs company. We get our piss tested anuallly, its just for pH and sugar levels, not drugs. At pre employment medical they screened for drugs allegedly but that was a blood sample.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,549 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    In my experience most places just ask you would you do one but never actually carry one out

    It's a bit of a scummy thing to do to your staff, prospective or current. I'd understand if someone came in obviously intoxicated but doing it for the sake of doing it? It's not cheap either.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    dirtyden wrote: »
    I work for a drugs company. We get our piss tested anuallly, its just for pH and sugar levels, not drugs. At pre employment medical they screened for drugs allegedly but that was a blood sample.

    Not sure I'd be too interested in working for a company that wanted to piss test me every so often...
    I don't really get why people wouldn't find such a thing highly objectionable, actually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    What kind of job is it that they want you to do a drugs test? I never thought it was done outside the US.

    A lot of big companies are doing it.

    Amazon UK has done this for years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    JayRoc wrote: »
    Not sure I'd be too interested in working for a company that wanted to piss test me every so often...
    I don't really get why people wouldn't find such a thing highly objectionable, actually.

    Its a health check. There is nothing sinister about it. It is part of an annual medical (I probably should have included that in my post). Working with pharmaceuticals the health check ensures you are suffering any workplace exposure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    dirtyden wrote: »
    It is part of an annual medical (I probably should have included that in my post). Working with pharmaceuticals the health check ensures you are suffering any workplace exposure.
    Ah, that's different! Fair enough.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,582 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    ScumLord wrote: »
    What is a piss test if it's not for drugs? Testing for reptilian DNA?

    Testing for piss. If it turns out to be anything else then the prospective employee must be taking the piss. :pac:



    No? Anyone? I'll get my coat...

    dirtyden wrote: »
    Working with pharmaceuticals the health check ensures you are suffering any workplace exposure.

    The bastards aren't happy enough that you might be exposed, they want to make sure?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    The bastards aren't happy enough that you might be exposed, they want to make sure?![/QUOTE]

    Its an added bonus. Free drugs. There was a not supposed to be in there somewhere before exposure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,582 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    dirtyden wrote: »
    The bastards aren't happy enough that you might be exposed, they want to make sure?!

    Its an added bonus. Free drugs. There was a not supposed to be in there somewhere before exposure.[/QUOTE]

    In which case put me down for a slab of your finest opiate. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    It's a bit of a scummy thing to do to your staff, prospective or current. I'd understand if someone came in obviously intoxicated but doing it for the sake of doing it? It's not cheap either.

    You think so? Imagine if they had drug tested all the bankers over the last decade, how many of those were coked off their heads making billion dollar gambles. Maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    It's a bit of a scummy thing to do to your staff, prospective or current. I'd understand if someone came in obviously intoxicated but doing it for the sake of doing it? It's not cheap either.
    We have to do random drug and alcohol tests, failure to attend leads to a YEAR off work :)

    smurfjed


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    My fella got D&A tested 5 times in the space of 2 weeks. I said he was just unlucky as they randomly select 10 people to test every day.

    He was having none on my theory and said that the lady doctor liked looking at his willy.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,549 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    bumper234 wrote: »
    You think so? Imagine if they had drug tested all the bankers over the last decade, how many of those were coked off their heads making billion dollar gambles. Maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today.

    I imagine there was a lot more at play than a few lines of coke. I've seen people coked off their heads and they're more lucid than most drunks.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Your local drug dealer will probably sell you one they stole somewhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    bumper234 wrote: »
    You think so? Imagine if they had drug tested all the bankers over the last decade, how many of those were coked off their heads making billion dollar gambles. Maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today.

    Agree they were probably coked to the eyeballs. We know they had no problems lashing back a bottle of wine at lunch time. Government ministers should all be drug tested randomly as par of the course and breathalised before being allowed in to the dail chambers.


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