Scrooge
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I feel like Scrooge. Today was our annual Christmas/holeyday party for all ee's. It was a nice lunch catered by a local popular restaurant. Everyone had a good time, even our Jewish and Moslem friends.
I didn't. Just before lunch I received a call from our drug test provider saying 4 of our lovely young gentleman tested positive. As soon as lunch was over and everyone collected their gift hams, I called them in to my office individually and terminated their employment. That makes a total of 5 ee's I termintated this week for drugs.
I didn't. Just before lunch I received a call from our drug test provider saying 4 of our lovely young gentleman tested positive. As soon as lunch was over and everyone collected their gift hams, I called them in to my office individually and terminated their employment. That makes a total of 5 ee's I termintated this week for drugs.
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Ray, sorry to hear that you had to look like Scrooge. Even though we know they brought it on themselves, it is still a hard thing to do especially around the Holidays.
So you terminate immediately upon receipt of a positive? You don't do last chance agreements? Just curious.
>confirmation from the provider. These were all
>new ee's who failed their initial drug screen.
>Because of logistics, I have them tested during
>their first month of employment at the time we
>do our regular random testing. A technician
>comes on premises to collect the samples. What
>is amazing, these people are told during the job
>offer and during the first day orientation that
>we do drug testing and those who test positive
>will be terminated.
Ray,
Have you considered doing pre-employment testing? Sure would save a lot of $$ not to mention time to eliminate the users before those first few weeks of orientation / training.
The good part was 2 of the 4 individuals today expressed interest in rehab and getting their jobs back. Some maybe some good will come out of it if they look at this as a wake up call. Normally, this doesn't bother me much, but the timing really stunk with our big lunch today. We even handed out bonuses - they didn't get any. Just kind of put a damper on my spirits.