My Drug Test

I got a job that starts on January 3rd! 

I am super excited about it!

It definitely made my move a lot easier knowing that I was going to have something here.

One of the pre-employment requirements was for me to get a drug test.

Yesterday, I finally went...well not finally, I was busy last week and I had to get it done at a specific place which I couldn't have done before the move.

Anyway, last week, before the holiday I called the office to ask about making an appointment as well as how long it would take.

The woman on the phone made me feel silly about asking these questions, not in a bad way...I have never had to take a drug test before...so it is new territory for me!

She told me it was just a walk in kind of test and that I should prepare to be there at most an hour.

So I go to the address I was told to go to and it is a nice looking hospital.

I walk in and the security guard can tell that I am obviously not sure where to go and tells me that I am in the wrong place and that I need to go down the road to a completely different address

I was thinking to myself..."oh great, this seems fishy...why didn't they put that address on the sheet if that is where I am supposed to go?!"

I started walking over there and then decided it was too far and walked back and drove

I found the place and got inside this big building with a lot of medical offices and I had to call because I wasn't sure in which suite they were located.

I walk in and I fill out my necessary paperwork and I sit and wait about 10 minutes when a nurse comes out and says:

"Is it, LA-TA-CHI?"

(ok imagine that being phonetically how she said it)

I thought to myself:

Great, this is going to be a long visit

And I responded with:

"It's LA-TOSH"

(again, imagine that being phonetically spelled)

I walk in and I had to put my purse in a cabinet along with my jacket

She told me to walk to the bathroom and that she would follow behind me

She gave me a cup, told me to wash my hands then to pee in the cup

and when I was finished not to flush or wash my hands and open the door so she could examine the room

I did what she asked

I followed her back to a desk where she sealed it in my presence

And then I was on my way

See...I can only speak for myself, of course, when I say that I was thoroughly uncomfortable.

I can understand all of the precautions that doctors and nurses have to take to make sure that people don't "cheat" on their drug tests

That is soo ridiculous to me!

You obviously shouldn't be doing drugs if you have a grown-up job, or any job for that matter

Maybe that should be a wake-up call to you if you need to be taking a drug test to stop doing them

Sorry for being so judgmental....

The whole experience just really put me out of my element!