re: #138 GeneJockey

I’ve worked for 5 Biotech companies, and it wasn’t until I was hired by one based on the East Coast that I had to take a drug test. I was somewhat offended, but it was late 2008 and I’d been working under contract since April, having been laid off when a previous company went under, so I really didn’t feel like I had much choice.

I figure he has several options: refuse and see if they’ll hire him anyway; acquiesce and keep silent; pass the test, take the job, and then raise a stink.

We’re still waiting for the actual offer letter …over a month after they announced it… so there’s a lot still up in the air.

This just really rubbed him the wrong way today and I am doing my best to be somewhat sympathetic, but I’ve had to do them for internships in college. In both cases I only had that one option available, and for what I wanted to achieve I needed the job.

The one where they wanted a hair sample kind of ticked me off though.