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My company does not do drug tests and never has. Someone asked the owner why and he said 'Id lose a lot of good people'
Sounds like you work for a good company, at least with respect to drug testing.
They're good people who take good care of me.
This is what companies used to be like and why people worked at a job for 40+ years
I worked for one place like that. I worked in another place, in the same industry, where they decided to drug test all their employees one day. They lost everyone from 3rd shift, and everyone from 2nd shift except my supervisor and myself.
After that, they rapidly started to lose customers...
Did they really expect 3rd shift people to be clean lol
My current job and a different job I had, didn't drug test people. Current job has a few stoners at the upper levels so they just don't test people. The other company was very small, was mostly developers, and had a high bar for getting an interview, so they knew that also going "also you have to be clean" wasn't a good idea to do to developers especially after recreational pot became legal.
Honestly I've seen a lot less dev jobs do drug testing since it whittles down too many otherwise perfectly competent employees.
I work in consulting so we often have to follow the rules that our clients impose on us. I once did IT work for a large utility company, who tested all of their employees since they have people operating heavy machinery and working in dangerous situations. One of the people that failed the test was the Client Engagement Lead (the highest ranked person on our project). Fortunately the client realized that IT workers don't need to be held to the same standards as someone operating dangerous equipment and allowed them to retake the test.
Most recently, one of our clients thought we were drug testing our consultants but then realized we weren't. So they told us we'd have to all get tested, even though many of us had been working for them for years. They, smartly, gave us a 3 week notice of when the testing would be.