If it be your will

Ok God. I give up. I had a fabulous round of interviews before Thanksgiving, but am still waiting to schedule a third that I thought would be scheduled yesterday. I am trying not to be impatient, but in the meantime I have been trying to make ends meet by working for former employer part-time. That was going well before the holiday, except that stupid manager had terminated me instead of put in leave of absence paperwork. So I had to fill out all paperwork again, and take another drug test. So I come home Sunday and call for my schedule, only to learn I am not scheduled because they think I am a cocaine user. @$#!@#$@!%&#!

According to state law, my option is to have the lab retest a portion of the sample that tested positive with GC/MS instead of ELISA. Ok, that would be fine if I had done anything that would have generated a false positive in the first place. Like drink tonic water, take amoxicillin, have diabetes, kidney or liver disease. But unless I am actually sick and don't know it, this is not the case.

The test was an Oral Fluid test, and the oral fluid pad collector stick is not actually labeled with any identifying information. So I am a little concerned that perhaps the lab has my sample mixed up with someone else's. The initial test and a retest goes on your medical record. This is a MAJOR problem. And so now I am asking former supervisors for details on the QC at the testing lab before I submit that sample to a retest... and pointing out that I have at least 5 former drug tests on file with them, all clean. Pointing out that if diabetes causes a false positive for cocaine, then every fat person who applys for a job with them could theoretically be screened out.

I would like to just pay for another test... and if I screen positive for that, then off to the doctor I would go.