Drug testing post-offer

Yes, it's irresponsible, you should stop, etc haha. And I did use the search function to see if this topic was brought up before, but the old posts are not particularly relevant.

Regardless, do any of the big 4 firms that do consulting drug test? There's no mention of drug testing in the offer letter, only the typical background check.

Any experience with any firms by name? I know that some clients may require it, but I'm only interested in the actual firm drug testing.

Thank you!

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I think the only places that drug test are those that have a significant blue-collar work force. In those cases, the drug testing policy is applied uniformly across the organization mostly because targeting a subset of employees would appear unfair - even said target has an established propensity towards drug-related issues (i.e. long-haul truck drivers within a large logistics firm).

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I think the only places that drug test are those that have a significant blue-collar work force. In those cases, the drug testing policy is applied uniformly across the organization mostly because targeting a subset of employees would appear unfair - even said target has an established propensity towards drug-related issues (i.e. long-haul truck drivers within a large logistics firm).

Didn't realize investment bankers were blue collar.
 

Blue-collar was a poor generalization. Forgot that there were small pockets of white-collar employees with a high propensity toward drugs - investment bankers for example.

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