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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Drug Testing - Lil' Jon Style

At around noon today I was taking a piss in a dirty stall in the back of "Chu's Chinese Fast Food," when I suddenly thought that a slightly pinkish tinge had glinted across my eye.

"Jesus," I though, "At this rate it would be easier to count the orifices I'm not bleeding from."

But no, it was actually just a trick of the harsh florescent lights bearing down over my head. Either way, nothing would surprise me anymore.

Not even being awoken Saturday afternoon at 4:30pm by a call from my Call Center Manager - when my shift started at 1:30. At the time it didn't even phase me. I had bigger things on my mind. Like the world's worst hangover.

Not only was I hung over in a way that few people can imagine, I was also near fucking lame from a brutal ankle sprain I had incurred the night before, when I had infortuitously missed the final step on a set of stairs inside the club I had been at.

When the injury occurred it hadn't seemed so bad, but the next morning I could barely walk, even to the bathroom and back, let alone work. As it happened, the bathroom is about as far as I made it that day. And the next.

Back to this morning - after Chinese and a quick commute into the hinterlands of Beaverton - I slide into work, fresh off my four day vacation, trying to maintain an air of easy nonchalance.

For the first couple hours I worked alongside an uneasy paranoid feeling that the hammer could drop at anytime - at any moment I could be called away from my desk to face whatever kind of hellfire management had in store for me.

Naturally, the focal point of my fears was drug testing, which - if I were forced to submit to it - would inevitably result in massive failure on multiple counts.

In fact, I am so wholly aware of the fact that even taking a drug test would be virtual suicide that I have been strongly considering the Lil' Jon approach.

Supervisor: We're going to need you to take this "random" drug test.

Me: WHHAAATTT!?!

Supervisor: We're going to need a drug test...

Me: WHHAAATTT!?!

Supervisor: Just take this cup, and take off that jacket. Yeah, leave your bag here.

Me: WHHAAATTT!?!

Supervisor: All you have to do is pee in it. No big deal.

Me: WHHAAATTT!?!

Well, that's one idea, and a laugh, but hopefully things won't get that bad any time soon. I have a few test avoidance cards up my sleeve, and chances are that at a center like mine nobody really cares anyway.

Peace out. I gotta work two more days, and then take another weekend.

It's a rough hoe, but somebody's got to do it.

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