so how do you feel about it
uh i i i don't see any problem with with random testing for random drugs
yeah i i myself almost um am in favor of it uh
i work at Honeywell and i went through a a pretty i don't know i went through a standard drug testing thing before i i was brought on
um-hum
i think that's pretty standard at least at Honeywell it is um i think it's important to insure the quality and
and uh
i don't know almost the goodness of character you know and that kind of thing where do you work
yeah
um well i'm a graduate student right now at Carnegie Mellon and i i just came from Saint Paul uh interviewing with Three M
oh okay oh okay
hm
oh great
and uh they have a policy for uh testing if if you if they make you an offer then they'll test you right before you start
right
and i guess the only
drawback i can see to to drug testing is in in case you are on some sort of medication that might give some uh sort of false positive result
um-hum
then there could be some sort of problem but uh it
yeah
yeah and that that definitely happens you know i mean those the drug tests assure us they're accurate but there's always that margin of error
yeah
and that's that's something to be aware of
another thing is a lot of times you know they aren't that accurate or they aren't that sensitive like if you're on a prescription drug of some kind you know what are they gonna do about that
yeah
you know i was on a couple of different prescription drugs when i was tested for Honeywell and uh
uh you know i know they didn't catch that or else they would have said something
um i'm sure they screen for just a particular few types although the literature they give with you says yeah we do this and then they list about five thousand drugs they try to test for
right
um i don't know what what program are you in over at Carnegie Mellon
uh electrical engineering
oh okay great um
yeah i'm a graduate student at UCF in Florida University of Central Florida and this is actually a an internship up here
oh wow
but um
they uh even for interns they they do the whole random drug or the whole drug testing thing so
uh they they test you um before they before you start or before you even interview or
right
um they essentially no i sure don't um they essentially um
they essentially uh made me the offer and then and then uh
did the drug testing thing after that
so uh it was one of those things where you go through the the general battery of all their tests and and then they essentially give you the offer
uh-huh
and then at that point they'll they'll ask you to go to a drug testing and things like that
oh
so uh there's some noise on this end i'm actually in a mall calling so
oh yeah
you probably wondered huh
but so
what what happens if you were to fail then do they give you like one chance one more chance or two more chances
yeah that's a good question i believe from what i remember of the literature they gave uh if you fail i believe they give you one more chance they probably give you a chance to explain yourself
um-hum
and then maybe give you another chance to go through it
but uh you know once again those things are not that accurate so there's undoubtedly a proportion of people who do fail you know but um what are you working right now anywhere or
uh no i'm just about to finish my masters in May and uh just interviewing with companies right now
okay
oh okay great
yeah that was the first time i'd ever gotten any kind of drug screening you know was was going to Honeywell a friend of mine is also a doctoral student down there and he's doing an internship with IBM
um-hum
oh
and uh
they basically uh did the same exact thing um we both got our internships at the same time and we both had to go through drug tresting at the same time so one of those things where we went through a kind of an identical process but uh
do do they test you at right now at work too
no no that's one thing they don't do is is drug testing while you're on the job uh i think i think the unwritten rule is yeah expect it but they don't do it
okay
oh
you know so
that's good i guess i don't know i mean
i uh
i have gone to a couple of parties since since that time and while i don't do any drugs myself i've seen some people who work there um
you know smoking a joint or whatever and uh
um-hum
you know that's the kind of thing that would definitely come up
you know but
no they don't they don't really do that
wow is it formal policy that they said that they might test
yeah
