posted 12-07-2001 18:48            

I might as well just tell the whoel damn story, since its late, im bored, and well, hell,,,yeah.

ok there is EDS corp. (which is about 1mile from my skool, would be great to work there cause its so close, after class,etc)
then American Axle corp,
well my step dad used to be CEO of amer axle and his old secratary is now hooking me up with a job @ EDS or amer. axle (thru EDS)...she said her and her boss's were impressed with my resume, but here's the thing, they told my mom ill haev to take a "intense drug screening - that traces back to 6months"
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so on my cell my mom calls me and tells me this, and shes like "i need to ask a personal ?..." im like ok,,,"have you,,done ne thing ... in the past 6months? " (keep in mind my mom thinks im an angle cause all i do is computer stuff and get good grades etc...)

so im like "well err maybe a few months ago"
and shes like "well just go home and you better think about how long ago it was"

so now im home and shes like 'were gonna have a little talk tomororw'
well i get her talking right nowand shes like 'blah blah its a hair follecule test,,balh'

so here is my deal
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1) im skinny (fast metabolism) which is good
2) i have really short hair,, and will be getting it cut right b4 i go in there ne ways.. heh i mean its really short, just comb'd forward etc...

now im just wanting some advice,
ive been a regular pot smoker for some time now, and when i found out i might be getting a job I stopped smoking for 2 weeks, then started up for another week, then found this out, and quit again,,,for good.

i wouldn't smoke that much, since my skool is an engineering school and there are no parties here, i smoke by myself and only need like a small bowl of nice buds to get me high and im set.

so its not like im smoking doobie after blunt every day...

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so any advice here, on the hair thing, from THIS DAY (TODAY) when i stopped smoking, till the time i get a job WILL AT LEAST BE 1 FULL MONTH....

im just wondering what you all think (plez seriuos comments) - i know we'd have the drug test discussion b4, but i just want a little bit more info on the hair testing,,

its a big corporation so im sure they do "newly developed" testing methods etc...

and my mom said "once you get tested positive, your never allowed to work for that corp again"
which is not good...

posted 12-07-2001 19:16            

not good at all, i dont have really long like arm hair or ne thing,,

will THC still get into like your leg hair and all that? i thought most thc or whatever that gets into your head hair is from like , surrounding smoke, like in the air after you exhale, not like thc in your hair follecules from internally

posted 12-07-2001 21:20            

but the lady that talked to my mom told her that HER son works at EDS too, and he had to take an "intense drug screening" process...and anything from "6months" would show and they take a "hair test"

now my mom COULD be exgargerating, and so could the lady (i hope)...i dunno because my friend works at GM (hes 18 too) and they gave him hair test...so...

also, my mom kinda knows i smoke pot now (well not even that) cause shes bitching to me about how long ago it was, and i better "remmeber the approx date"

haha shes talking to me and i just want to say "you know what mom, i know so fucking much about drugs i stuudy this shit a lot"

but then she would think im a druggie and everything would go bad, even tho i would still win the conversation heh

posted 12-08-2001 01:52            

They range in price from 20-50 bucks, but close friends have vouched for their effectiveness... most of the companies will give you a 200% refund if you can prove you failed and save your receipt!

posted 12-08-2001 02:17         

http://www.erowid.org is a great resource, including this article that's relevant to you.

hyperreal.org is a related site

quote:

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Hair Tests

*Are considered the least intrusive method of drug testing.

*Are currently many times more expensive than urine tests (~$100-$150).

*Detect substance use over a longer period (see detection period)

*Do not usually detect use within the past week.

*Require a sample of hair about the diameter of a pencil and 1.5 inches long. They can not be done with a single hair.

*Test positive a little more than twice as often as a urine test. In a recent study, out of 1823 paired hair and urine samples, 57 urine samples tested positive for drugs of abuse; while 124 hair samples from the same group tested positive.

*Are not significantly affected by brief periods of abstinence from drugs.

*Can sometimes be used to determine when use occured and if it has been discontinued. Drugs, such as opiates (codeine, morphine, heroin) lay down on the hair shaft very tightly and are shown not to migrate along the shaft, thus, if a long segment of hair is available one can draw some "relative" conclusions about when the use occurred. However cocaine, although very easy to detect, is able to migrate along the shaft; making it very difficult to determine when the drug was used and for how long.

*Claims to be able to reliably differentiate between opiate and poppy seed use

*We've recently heard (8/2001) that many hair tests now check for more than the NIDA 5, and include at least Cannabis, Ecstasy/MDMA, Cocaine, Opiates, Methamphetamine, Amphetamine, Phencyclidine (PCP), Benzodiazepines, & Barbiturates.

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[edited for mistakes]

posted 12-08-2001 11:54            

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