Quote Originally Posted by Sprayed
, but the agency won't make him take one.
Why take that chance though? I worked as part of a hazardous chemical unit, we had to take them. In fact, my supervisor was fired (actually given the choice to resign) because he couldn't stay clean. He would come up missing for a couple weeks every few months. They finally found out when this happened it was because he would check himself into drug rehab at one of the hospitals. Only way they found out was one of the guys I worked with happened to be a nurse at the hospital he would check into.

Of course it is true that not all agency's require a drug test. The governments funny. You can work at one location with one set of rules, and another location for the same job will have a different set of standards. I have a friend who just transfered from the base here to a base is South Texas. Doing the same exact job. There they are required to wear uniforms that differentiate between whether you are a WG, GS, or whatever (determined by the color shirt, the rest of the uni is exact), here that would have been unheard of. I just gave this as an example of how different bases work, even though its not really related to the question in general.

Me before being riffed into the warehouse job (hazardous waste) I was a machinist. With the machinist job a drug test was like a lottery, if your number came up you were tested. In the warehouse job it was anually.

I just wanted to make the point of why take the chance. Heck you can always go back to your pot after you are hired.