Why Employee Drug Test? A True Story

Imagine you just hired what you thought was the perfect employee. You interviewed her several times on your own and with other staff and all of you had a great feeling about her. Over the next few weeks her work becomes sloppy and incomplete, and she is not finishing her projects on time. You decide to have a sit down and she breaks down in tears admitting that she has been a drug user for years and she thought she could change now that she got this new, great job. We discussed her situation at great lengths and by the end of our conversation, she decided it would be best to walk away from the job, and how about this, do it IMMEDIATELY. After all of the time spent interviewing, training, etc. It was completely her choice although I must admit, I had no idea at the time of how I would have handled the situation if she didn't quit. She didn't say good bye to anyone and now was the time to construct a story I could tell to our other employees regarding her leaving. Thankfully Miss Perfect was such an efficient worker (at least in the beginning) that she didn't take time to share much with the other employees. Kim will be blogging about her ventures into employee pass drug test - how to research the program you want and how to put it together.