my stepson used to have a job going around various places of work testing for drink / drugs ... could turn up any where/anytime, as requested by his Co.'s employers and test any/all employees ... in their contract that they agreed to testing .. or no job.
s on site in all roles, it's a widespread problem. I had a crushed thumb, lost the nail and broken tip of the bone, due to some drunk idiot.
has always been the same, but anyone who thinks there's a possibility of being tested, any time might be deterred or not even be there. .... I used to have one guy who'd regularly turn up stinking of booze .. sent home unpaid ... or he'd go down the pub in his lunch hour ... sent home unpaid for the afternoon .... he was a danger to my other blokes, me, my equipment/facilities and most importantly my customers. The booze eventually got the better of him and he stopped turning up altogetherPlenty of w
Reality is if they tested a lot of sites either people disappear as soon as the testers come up on site or majority of of staff being fired or more than likely transferred to a different site.
Seen plenty of crap over the years from people squirrelling bottles of vodka away or having to get cigarettes on the way to work and picking up a 4 pack then the same again on the way home to be dropped at the pub and none of that includes anything they smoke or stick up their nose
.. was a good bloke, sober .... 'nother one was into the ketamin ... he was a liability, full stop and went, soon as anyone who should've been present and wasn't went automatically, apparently
so they'll be paying him those three weeks then .... innocent 'til proven guilty an' all thatThere are some companies using a fingerprint test nowdays.They seem quite expensive at a quick glance tho..
A friend of mine on HS2 has been tested twice recently. One showed up paracetamols as a substance and he was suspended while the
'B' test went to a lab for a second check. it took 3 weeks and he could not work in that time.Self employed, so a short month..
But came back as paracetamol so proven clean.
https://www.intelligentfingerprinting.com/product-category/fingerprint-drug-tests/
Seems to be everywhere
Cross rail used to do it back in the day, they would just randomly pick people from the site!so they'll be paying him those three weeks then .... innocent 'til proven guilty an' all that
Josh's mob used to require a urine specimen for on site instant testing .... and nigh on instant results
Yeah its everywhere
is Zooport still the drug capital of the area Boyo? ..... used to be horrendous 25+ years ago, when I used to get out an' about down there .. my best mate lived on Maindy Parade, 'til we put him in the ground - big C
.... Abergavenny ain't far behind it, on a smaller scaleI don't think it matters where you are these days. Its everywhere, richer areas like the white stuff. 1 thing that's never interested me don't even like taking paracetamol lolis Zooport still the drug capital of the area Boyo? ..... used to be horrendous 25+ years ago, when I used to get out an' about down there .. my best mate lived on Maindy Parade, 'til we put him in the ground - big C
Too true...they know where the money is.
ditto .... even in the '70,s was a bit of an odd one out in college for not partaking
... pain killers on the other hand are a must have, some nights 
Coming back through the Hindhead tunnel on the bike last night around eleven some tosser in an old shitbox cut me up to overtake at 60, then almost hit the kerb. When I went past him I got a face full of waccy baccy. I pulled the bike over after the tunnel to call it in, hopefully they pulled him but no idea.
Good on you...
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