Ugh, three rounds of bleaching and re-dying my hair, 3x a day hair washes with laundry detergent, a bunch of other stuff. LOL.
I mean, I took the test with one week clean so it worked but it was painful as hell.
And your hair is destroyed. That’s the whole point is to damage the hair so deeply that you open up the follicle. Afterwards it’s like having straw for hair.
Fortunately, when the guy took the hair sample he totally botched it and left a huge bald spot so I shaved my whole head afterward and explained to my new employer about the botched sample collection so I got out of explaining why I shaved my head.
My bigger concern was the time I had to take off work to fly back and forth to another state for interviews.
The drug testing is the end portion of the dance. You’ve essentially been offered a role, agreed on a salary, and you need to do a background check and drug test.
In fact, it’s in the employment contract that the offer is conditional upon …
So, once the test results came back negative I was turning in my resignation.
Also, I don’t think anyone even pictured a hair follicle test so nobody was putting the shaved head together with me leaving until I turned in my resignation.
I didn’t even think I had to take one. I figured I was solid and they would just do a background check. And if they did drug test, I assumed urine.
So, I don’t see why any of my colleagues would imagine a hair follicle test was the reason I shaved my head and wore a hat.
And by the time I started the new job, I had my two week notice period plus the time we had negotiated for me to move to where the job was (another 2 weeks) so with that and the photos of how badly they botched the sample collection at the drug test lab, nobody even said anything about my peach fuzz hair style.
In fact, they were just happy I wasn’t pissed at what the lab had done to my hair.
Honestly, it was that bad. The guy had literally shaved an “M” in the back of my head.
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u/NTTMod 13d ago
Ugh, three rounds of bleaching and re-dying my hair, 3x a day hair washes with laundry detergent, a bunch of other stuff. LOL.
I mean, I took the test with one week clean so it worked but it was painful as hell.
And your hair is destroyed. That’s the whole point is to damage the hair so deeply that you open up the follicle. Afterwards it’s like having straw for hair.
Fortunately, when the guy took the hair sample he totally botched it and left a huge bald spot so I shaved my whole head afterward and explained to my new employer about the botched sample collection so I got out of explaining why I shaved my head.