Reply #36: I dunno [View All]

[StellaBlue]

I was just shocked.

I guess they would've said (from what my mom has since told me about how EVERYONE at this particular recruiter - basically the only one in our small town - has to submit to the drug test, and a lot of major employers around here hire ONLY through them), 'Okay, well, then, we will inform Mrs. X at X National Bank. I believe it is their company policy.' Then I probably would've gotten a call from her this afternoon telling me that it's standard company procedure and that I could not be hired unless, like everyone else, including herself, I submitted to the drug test.

Then my dad would've gone ballistic, as he was trying to help me by asking his banker to hire me temporarily. They created a position for me, even! They are at full capacity right now. Anyway, that would've burned a bridge and I would probably be blacklisted from working anywhere in this town except non-drug-testing retail/food service. Then I would've gotten a long lecture from my parents along the lines' of LynneSin's (see above). Then I would've gotten into a big fight with them.

And I would be unemployed.

But I think that, if this situation ever presents itself again, and I am not beholden to anyone, then I will refuse. And I might tell them to go to hell.