Do Big 5 drug test?

Hey guys, current first year analyst at a smaller Canadian boutique shop. Have an interview for a lateral position at a Big 5 bank coming up. I don't smoke a lot but have recently.

Do the Big 5 or other larger Canadian banks generally drug test new hires?

Thanks

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I love how your SN is "chillbro" and you're worried about getting caught smoking reef.

That said, noone I know from my school working at Big 5 is getting tested.

‎"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars."
 

Thanks IG. Is that for FT or SA?

Haha yea it is slightly ironic. I don't use the forum a whole lot so I didn't put much thought into my name to be honest.

Hadn't actually smoked for about a year, starting a couple months before I started FT for this exact reason. Never ended up getting tested.

This interview was kind of unexpected so I feel like a bit of an idiot going all that time and then being in the exact position I was trying to avoid.

Can anyone else way in?

 
chillbroThanks IG. Is that for FT or SA?

Haha yea it is slightly ironic. I don't use the forum a whole lot so I didn't put much thought into my name to be honest.

Hadn't actually smoked for about a year, starting a couple months before I started FT for this exact reason. Never ended up getting tested.

This interview was kind of unexpected so I feel like a bit of an idiot going all that time and then being in the exact position I was trying to avoid.

Can anyone else way in?

Ya I feel your pain. I was in a hairy sitch with a drug test myself in the past.

http://www.detoxrightnow.com/

Actually works man. I suggest you buy it if you're worried you'll be tested.

‎"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars."
 

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