The drug testing industry is just that - a huge industry, there’s a lot of money involved in it and sooner or later in life at one point or another it’s gonna steamroll right over you anyway so may as well get used to it.
Being somewhat indirectly in that industry, I can’t think of anyone who’s ever been steamrollered by it unless they were doing drugs. I guess.
If you’re saying employers and others tend to overuse the services, perhaps. The “others” is this example here. I don’t see any particular reason for a flight school who’s paying any attention whatsoever to student’s behavior would need it.
A massive flight school “puppy mill” perhaps. Mostly because they’re not building any sort of relationship with the student nor noticing their behavior. Just slap another instructor with the student and send them up. But even then, the instructors should know when someone’s acting odd.
Before I worked for a place that has Docs that talk to people who’ve failed a simple employment drug test, and heard the stories, I would have thought not that many people are perennially high.
But I’ve lost that naïveté for sure. There’s a lot of people high on all sorts of drugs out there. A lot.
My “favorite” calls to overhear when walking by the Docs usually go like this, “No, I don’t think you’ll get the job. According to this report you had so much cocaine in your system you probably should have died walking from your car to the test center. Did you do that in the parking lot?”
Unfortunately hearing those calls as you walk by, becomes darkly comical after you’ve overheard enough of them. Nobody in my office trusts a dang thing that most of the callers say, either. Because addicts lie. A lot. They’ll say nearly anything to delay a positive result being reported to an employer, etc.
I’m just “the IT guy” and I see this. I wouldn’t want to be in the team that talks to them all day every day.
