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erkpod said:
When drug testing was being introduced to my place of employment, it was easy to guess who the pot heads were in the lead up to testing.

"Hey man, what happens if you go to Canberra on the weekend, man, where it's totally fine, man, and you have a spliff & get tested on Monday, man..."

or

"What happens, man, if you walk through a train where people have been smoking, man..."
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In Victoria you can get drug tested by Police booze buses, however you if you haven't used "insert drug here" within 24 hours they generally let you off.

Cannabis generally stays in a person's system for ~20-30 days. Drugs like amphetamines a day or two. Heavy smokers of tobacco can also give off false positives.

I know friends who are Cannabis users have quietly left their jobs then rather be drug tested. I also know of Employers who when they need to get rid of a few employees will drug test employees on Monday morning to try to get a rid of a few.

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Great white shark v Great white shark off the SA coast.

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erkpod said:
When drug testing was being introduced to my place of employment, it was easy to guess who the pot heads were in the lead up to testing.

"Hey man, what happens if you go to Canberra on the weekend, man, where it's totally fine, man, and you have a spliff & get tested on Monday, man..."

or

"What happens, man, if you walk through a train where people have been smoking, man..."
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As per below, at least 2 weeks for THC. other injectable drugs 24 to 48 hours. When working a shift roster of say 5 on 5 off, you're basically set for the first couple of days off to do whatever provided it's not pot.

anat0l said:
It could have been that people were trying to cover up their habits, but beats me about it.

It wouldn't be so serious or funny if they weren't so uptight about it, but they were. They believed only the machine and pretty much had a view of guilty until proven innocent a la punish now and exonerate later (if it ever got to that). You only got two transgressions of any kind at that site - first one was a warning which is never cleared, the second time you are sacked.

Would likely take a union intervention and litigation to at least clear your name so you have a better chance of getting your next job.

I'm pretty sure it was a standard shift roster at the site, so three shifts a day, though the "office workers" (like us contractors / researchers) were naturally not on a shift schedule.
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I don't know which site you mean but I've seen loopholes in the two strikes thing. At another site they put you on a management plan if caught on one of your strikes. When caught you went on leave (sick leave/annual leave) until the levels dropped below. Seen someone with heaps of sick leave who turned up each week for their drug test with levels that were higher than the previous week. That didn't count as they still hadn't returned to work. (I'm definitely not blaming them either, they had chronic pain from a workplace injury.) Also the 2 strikes reset each calendar year at that site.

Also saw a few workers who wild gossip said were injecting who would turn up to work in jumpers when it was 45+ degrees outside. That's not suspicious at all.

Just on the shifts this site had 12 hours shifts. But I was more referring to the on/off roster as per above. 4 or 5 days off made the drug policy kinda pointless depending on biological clearance times.

Then there were the people who had to have eskys of beer in their car waiting for when they got off shift..... :rolleyes:

whatmeworry said:
In Victoria you can get drug tested by Police booze buses, however you if you haven't used "insert drug here" within 24 hours they generally let you off.

Cannabis generally stays in a person's system for ~20-30 days. Drugs like amphetamines a day or two. Heavy smokers of tobacco can also give off false positives.

I know friends who are Cannabis users have quietly left their jobs then rather be drug tested. I also know of Employers who when they need to get rid of a few employees will drug test employees on Monday morning to try to get a rid of a few.
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The schedule for AFF 8 is now up in the thread.

How did I get roped into organising a do in Melbourne? I don't even live there :p :p :p
 
Somewhat surprisingly, a memo has gone out about the fire proceedures after the previous night's train fire.

Normally we only hear about things through mealroom gossip or online.
 
This was the view from the office today :).

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Then I drove closer to its base and this is what the GPS inside the office said:

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The vehicle was gasping more than me.

Near Putre in far NE Chile, close to the Bolivia/Peru borders.
 
I'm hoping the Sydney International QP F lounge is open over Christmas as we have a four hour transit. What do I need to plan for that event?

Travelling on Emirates so is this the only lounge or is this THE lounge. :p
 
QF WP said:
Geraldine Mock, first woman to fly solo around the world, dies at 88

http://au.news.yahoo.com/entertainm...fly-solo-around-the-world-dies-at-88/?cmp=ydn

To think she completed what Amelia Erhart tried and failed - yet nobody knows her...
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Amazing coincidence.A lecturer on this cruise has been a part of an effort to find Amelia.A detailed search was planned for later this month but now postponed 12 months.But in a lecture 1 week ago he told of Geraldine Mock with pictures of her flight.,
 
Another "learner driver" rant, followed a NSW registered turquoise Rodeo with a barely legible "L" plate stuck to the inside of the dark coloured plexiglass canopy. They refused to let another driver merge, which is the law here in the ACT, don't know how the merging ute missed them as they had no where to go.

They then proceeded to move over to the right lane and sit out there under the 80kph speed limit.

When I was able to get past (on the inside, but don't tell anyone!) the passenger had their head down, texting? reading? they were definitely not watching what their student was doing.

IMHO all learners should have to go to a certified school and get rid of using friends and family as teachers where they are passing on their own bad habits.
 
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Cossie said:
Another "learner driver" rant, followed a NSW registered turquoise Rodeo with a barely legible "L" plate stuck to the inside of the dark coloured plexiglass canopy. They refused to let another driver merge, which is the law here in the ACT, don't know how the merging ute missed them as they had no where to go.

They then proceeded to move over to the right lane and sit out there under the 80kph speed limit.

When I was able to get past (on the inside, but don't tell anyone!) the passenger had their head down, texting? reading? they were definitely not watching what their student was doing.

IMHO all learners should have to go to a certified school and get rid of using friends and family as teachers where they are passing on their own bad habits.
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