Drug Tests

No, im not on drugs people! No, my parents didn't make me take one..."Gah, people! Eat your food!"

I'm just going back to Toyota and had to take a drug test, again. The thing about it is, it's not the normal "pee in the cup" and bring it back to the ugly lady, with big hair, coke bottle glasses and a jacked up grill at the front desk kind of test, but a "hair" test. Yes, that's right, a hair test.
So, I go and sit down in the chair at this drug testing facility that smelt like peroxide, lift my hair up and she wiggles her finger through to my scalp and pulls out this strand of hair and SNIP! Right at the root. So needless to say, I have a little bald patch of hair in the back of my head.
I had to sign a whole bunch of forms as she folds it up in this silver packaging that, without a doubt in my mind, could of just been the tin foil that she used from her lunch.

So anyway, for those of you who don't know how "hair tests" work, I'll explain it to you. If you have been in contact and/or using drugs up to 90 days prior to the test, it will detect it. So, for the normal people who apply for a job after waiting three weeks (being off the drugs) a "pee test" would result in negative.

So, yadi-yada - I passed. Duh. The amusing part to me is that my dad (The Fixed Op's Director) told me that so many people find out that the drug test is a hair test and they don't ever come back. That or they think that some special shampoo or some fruit will alter the results and of course, it comes up positive.

I just hadn't ever heard of a hair drug test until I started at Toyota and I found it to be rather amusing.