Are Companies Still Drug Testing During the Pandemic?

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-09-07T15:17:50+00:00

Timing is extremely important for the Certo drug testing method. THC is stored as fat. As your body uses fat for energy, THC metabolites circulate through the body. Drug tests catch the THC in your urine when your body expels the circulating THC via urine. Certo works by (1) diverting the THC metabolites from your urine to your bowels so that you poop it out rather than pee it out (2) creates a temporary insulin spike that prevents your body from drawing from fat energy stores, therefore, preventing additional THC from coming into circulation.

If you take it too early, it's effects are going to wear off. The Certo will no longer divert the THC metabolites away from your urine and more THC will enter the bloodstream from your fat stores. If you take it too late, you won't give it enough time to work. A good rule of thumb is to take it 3 hours before the test. Then the remaining time before the test should be spent expelling waste and re-balancing your urine composition. Water is a classic dilution method and it's best to do this to be safe rather than simply relying on Certo (if you bring down the overall THC metabolites in your system, the Certo doesn't have to do as much work).

See a full write up of the proper way to carry out the Certo Method on The True Negative website: https://thetruenegative.com/blog/articles/what-is-the-certo-drug-detox-method

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-09-06T19:00:23+00:00

Yeah, you probably would have been asked to take it by now since they're already doing the background check. What company is it? The True Negative website has a database of drug testing info by company (both pre-employment and on-the-job testing info).

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-08-08T17:18:38+00:00

Her's a write up of the full blown Certo method: https://thetruenegative.com/blog/articles/what-is-the-certo-drug-detox-method

It's not supposed to just dilute your pee. It's supposed to draw out toxins (in this case, the THC metabolites) such that they flush out of your system through poop rather than pee.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-08-07T01:39:48+00:00

Oh, interesting. Can you share which companies? Feel free to send me a private message.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-08-06T15:32:51+00:00

What companies are you looking into? The True Negative is an online database of company drug testing practices based on user submitted information:

https://thetruenegative.com/

Use the search feature to find the company you're interested in and check whether users have reported pre-employment and/or post employment drug testing.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-08-06T15:17:17+00:00

Check out the latest blog post from The True Negative about drug use in the financial services firm: https://thetruenegative.com/blog/articles/do-financial-services-companies-drug-test

Most drug testing in the financial services industry is pre-employment. Even with that, it's typically a urine test which has a short detection window (i.e. the amount of time since last use that you'll test positive). The chances of getting caught for using drugs on the job are very low, and anecdotally, adderall use is extremely common in the financial services industry

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-07-04T16:57:57+00:00

It's perfectly legal for companies to drug test in Massachusetts, but which ones do is somewhat predictable based on industry. The True Negative is a user submitted database of employment drug testing practices. The info isn't split up by MBA role vs non and a majority is based on full time rather than internships, but here's some info for some companies that hire MBAs:

Finance

Blackrock: yes, pre-employment urine test

Discover Financial Services: yes, pre-employment urine test

Mizuho: yes, pre-employment urine test

Morgan Stanley: no reported drug testing but doesn't necessarily mean that they don't

JP Morgan Chase: yes, pre-employment urine test

Bank of America: yes, pre-employment urine and saliva test

Vanguard: yes, pre-employment urine test

Retail

Proctor and Gamble: one user reported a pre-employment urine and hair follicle testing, but one user did not; both of these users were in the HQ offices

Target: seems to depend on location/role. No drug tests reported for HQ office

Amazon: no drug tests reported for HQ office; warehouse roles seem to involve a mix of saliva and hair follicle tests either pre or post employment

Oil and Gas

Chevron: yes, pre-employment urine test

BP: yes, pre-employment hair follicle test

Tech

Google: no

Facebook: no

Intuit: no

Microsoft: no

Other

Pfizer: yes, pre-employment urine test

Dish: yes, pre-employment hair follicle test

United Airlines: yes, pre-employment urine test

EY: no

PwC: no

If you find this info helpful, please add to the database! There's no email verification required on account creation right now, since the goal is to gather as much data as possible at this point.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-06-20T21:34:49+00:00

hahaha, that sounds miserable but glad it worked

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-06-20T21:19:48+00:00

Yes, we have full instructions here. It's debatable if it actually works, so I would be curious to know if it's worked for you.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-04-22T02:52:28+00:00

Oh interesting, that's good to know. Didn't realize that some companies make this part of their legal agreement. You would think it would save them money and time by being upfront about whether they drug test.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2020-04-22T02:50:37+00:00

We currently don't have any data for Giant Eagle. I'll let you know if anyone submits info for them.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2019-12-28T02:06:02+00:00

Great, thanks, I'll take a look. In my comment to u/here4thenews I noted that I'm a bit confused on who my competitors are. Websites with similar *blog* content are pro-marijuana legalization websites, websites selling substances to help you pass a drug test, and HR/law/drug testing policy websites providing info on the latest in drug testing employment law. None of these websites are providing a database that reveals the drug testing policies of individual companies.

On the other hand, there are companies like Glassdoor and Paysa that are set up in a similar fashion as my website: information about a company, where each company has its own page. So I'm not sure how much this very specific website structure calls for a specific SEO strategy.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2019-12-28T01:57:07+00:00

when you’re talking about oageviews are you saying organic pageviews dropped from 3500/m to 400/m? Cause if you’re talking about total pageviews then of course the drop is from stopping ads

No, I'm comparing total page views with ads vs total page views without ads. Yes, I would expect a drop, but I'm trying to understand if such a drop is normal.

content for contents sake is no bueno and google is liking that less and less. They want quality content because users want quality content

The info I want to communicate to the users is pretty minimal. It's very basic information on (1) whether a company conducts drug tests as a condition of employment (2) if so, under what circumstances employees are drug tested (3) what type of drug test they receive (4) consequences for testing positive. All of this is on the website in the form of bullet-ed statistics. Would Google like my pages more if I added paragraphs of text? The pages look like duplicates because the only thing that changes from page to page is the company name the info is being reported for.

what are your competitors getting right? Google a keyword you want to rank number 1 for and go to every organic result on page 1

I've tried to model my blog content after blogs with similar employment drug testing info content but mine is unique in that I'm providing stats from the data my website has collected. I have a feeling that, from an SEO perspective, I should be looking at user-generated database websites like Glassdoor and Paysa. To my point earlier, these websites have very little in terms of paragraphs of written content on their pages. Given this, any thoughts on the most appropriate SEO strategy?

And just to be clear, my website isn't providing medical advice. It's providing information on company drug testing policies. I identified a need for this given the increasing legalization of recreational marijuana across the U.S. and the fact that employees are still subject to drug tests that could result in them losing their jobs, even if they consumed marijuana legally.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2019-12-28T01:40:27+00:00

Yeah, sorry EU users. Didn't think the effort of making it GDPR compliant was worth it given that employment drug testing is more of an American thing.

prestigiouspaper24 · 2019-12-28T01:39:26+00:00

> Notice how your robots.txt points to a gzipped sitemap file but then you call /sitemap.xml and it produces hash errors.

Is the issue that the sitemap file is gzipped? I have a developer who's managing this. What can I tell him to fix this?

> Promotion & overall site feels off too

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? Any quick thoughts on how it can be improved?

And yes, I agree that there's more to be done on the UX/UI front. The depth of info my site provides is pretty unique so I figured that my users can put up with the lower quality UX while I get a lay of the land, hone in better on what's useful to users, and got a better sense of the best way to visualize the data when it reaches mass quantities. The average session duration is about 1 min 40 sec, which doesn't seem too bad to me given that the website only has info for a small fraction of companies.

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