There's been places I've had the drug test, been fingerprinted and the like but that's when I got the job. The one that sort of threw me for a loop was long ago, when I was still in school and was interning at a place. I'm giving them free labor, and in fact I had to drive quite a distance and pay for parking most days to donate this and they wanted me to take a polygraph test. Didn't like that at all and my instructor could tell when I told him. I think he knew that if it was a requirement, I'd be walking out. Had they given me employment, that's a different story. I'd gladly take the test. But I wonder if it was just to gauge my reaction since I didn't hear any more about it and I was finished with my internship a week or so later.

You've never had to pee in a cup at the doctor's office? That is the extend of my experience with it!

I'd have to say that sounds like a good sign. We can't do a background check unless it is on the person we are hoping to hire.

Moni, is it a government job? Sorry, if you've posted, I've missed it.

I'm asking because most of the time, they check very thoroughly with government jobs. If it's not, what type of job is it? I'm just curious 'cause it is out of the ordinary.

Many years ago as a student trainee, I was finger printed for work at an arsenal. After graduation, took a job in industry. Worked about 10 years and then one day, I had to visit the Sherrif's office for finger prints again. Inside our company, I was called on to consult and analyze a piece of gear that would go on a Navy ship. Yep - sworn in and finger printed (part of security clearance) before I could look at the drawings.

I haven't been tested or fingerprinted. I did work at a wholesale company that had drugs. I had to be bonded, but that is the extent of my security experience.

I applied at Home Depot.

Yes, I did it at a dr. office before.... but this, it was at a lab, just for drug testing....

My son just got hired by Home Depot Moni!! I hope you get it...he's loving working there!! I think it's good that they drug test...I've been getting drug tested for years!

Moni.... what happened to the job at the ice cream store?

I want to know too. What happen, didn't you like it? If you stay it will get better.

Because of my kidney failure, I need to have blood and urine tests done at a lab once a month. I've been going for years. Lately (like maybe the last 2 years) I see more and more young people applying for jobs showing up for urine tests. My own daughter (22) has had to have her urine checked. Employers don't want their employees on drugs, possibly means they won't pay attentio on the job, may get hurt, or might not show up, or employers may "assume"' they'll steal or use drugs on the job.

I am still there. but I am so tired, wore out, and exhausted.... I wrote the following to my daughter:

I had a call back from Home Depot the day after I started at Braums.
Personally, I am thinking, HD would be a better job than Braums...

Wednesday got another call from them, asking if I could come in for a
personal interview at 6:30 PM. Who would have thought, I would get a
call from them on my first day off???? and that I could go there....

I had to go pee in a cup yesterday, and they are running a background
check. As far as the young lady that interviewed me is concerned... I
am hired. But in reality the two checks need to be completed.

Worked till closing last night. Way easier to get out earlier when
one knows, what all one has to do before being able to leave. Got out
at 11:20 PM. But I am so bushed!!!! So tired, body tired.... Could
only sleep one hour longer than my usual wake up time.

Today I work 4 to closing again... and they stay open a half hour
later today. ARGH.

Then off on Saturday, and work 4 to close on Sunday. This working
thing there is really tough. I got muscles on my arms I never had....

When I was hired I was told all I could have is a daily shift for 4 hours. But I worked 4 1/2 the first day, 6 the next, then 7, and then 8 hours plus often... I am tired. Really tired... and I never considered myself a wimp.

Moni

I was thinking of applying to Home Deopot, and Costco if my boss decides to sell her business. My friend did tell me that her sister lasted only a month at Home Depot. when she was hired, they DID tell her that she had to be able to lift at least 50 pounds. What she didn't know was that she would be lifting it all day long, and the concrete floors were hard on her. I don't know what kind of shape she is in though. I know you are very fit!
Good luck!

wow... I didn't mean for this to sound discouraging! LOL I'm sorry about that! I know a few people that have worked for HD and they really liked it!

Kat, I know about the 50 pound lifting.. and the concrete floors... and

But I have to try it. Who knows, it might be just the "job" for me?

I will be outside, in the garden area.

Moni

lol..

dh had to the other day, and NOT for a job, but for the co they just signed a contract with! they're installing equiptment, and while he's just the saleperson, he might have to visit the job site! (like today) security is really high...

I have had to take many pee tests since 1999 when I retired from the university. Most job require the drug testing. I always think it is comical for an older person.

Eons ago as a new bride, we were moving to the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. I had secured a teaching job in Montgomery County, and so in the finalizing application process, I had to be fingerprinted and had to have 5 people sign a statement that I was not a communist. I went to my hometown police station to get the fingerprinting done, and there ran into a young man who had been a childhood neighbor. He was shocked that I was there, assuming I was being booked!

Olkamoni...sending good thoughts your way. Hope you get the job.

The thing that threw me for a looper!! Really! was when I was teaching at the tech school and a student had missed more days than she had come to class. I think she had showed up 3 days out of the month with no call to me to get her assignments. I dropped her from my class and about two weeks later found out she had hired an attorney to sue me and the school for discrimination. What? I thought. Come to find out she never said anything about her having fibromyalgia on her entrance papers but we had to let her back in. I was aghast. I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia myself but I always managed to drag myself to work. This incident really threw me for a loop. I never dropped another student. I just let them fail themselves.

When a man the same age as my grandfather (mid eighties) told me that he went to a friends house to "score some weed" but all he had was crack. So he smoked that, then called a prostitute. She took his wallet, keys, and security card for the building. "And I couldn't chase her, what with the walker and all".

That threw me for several loops ROFL!

Sounds like you can have your pick....I suggest that the Braums will probably be much easier, Home Depot more interesting but harder so figure the money in to that equation along with the hours and how tired you want to be and decide..........Good Luck

I had to pee in a cup when I was hired at Wal-Mart which didn't surprise me. What did surprise me was when I slipped a fell walking into work one winter moring about a year and a half ago I had to have a pee test when management took me to the ER to see if I had broken my wrist.
Kittywhiskers

I've never had to have a medical exam for any job I've worked for. Even as a foster parent. Just a few questions to a doctor about my mental health. No blood or urine checks.

Walmart? Really?????

Anyways, one job I worked for required a background check to see if you've ever been caught doing anything illegal. I always thought it was a waste of time. Those checks just prove you haven't been caught. And most of the people I worked with stole satelitte tv waves. I was the only person in the store who got a bill for my satelitte service and paid for it. I also was the person in charge of inventory, and often found missing camera's, camcorders and palm pilots. They were in a room that you needed two separate keys to get into, and only management and the warehouse manager had access to them. *I* didn't even have a key and had to be let in.

To teach in the state of Florida you have to have fingerprints taken and the pee test. In 1988, I had to go to the police station. I was told that my fingerprints were almost illegible. In other words, very little of a print showed up on most of the fingers. A few years ago the county instituted a new policy that the fingerprints had to be done every 5 years so all county employees were done again, this time at the county office. This time I had to have them done twice and then they had to do a "further background check" since the fingerprints were illegible again. Took an additional 6 weeks for the clearance to come through.

Wal-Mart has always required the pee test.....