Drug test at work

Today I got my tap on the shoulder and was sent down to the nurse's station to get my drug and alcohol test. This is a requirement the company has as we are a military contractor. A random selection of people have to take a drug test. I have had to do it a couple of times over the past few year. I guess I'm lucky getting picked at something! My supervisor caught me right at the time I was getting up to head to the bathroom, so it was no problem for me to pee in the cup and fill it to the line that they wanted. This is a big concern for some of the people that are pee shy.

I passed the alcohol breath test and I'm 100% sure of the drug test too, but we don't get the results for that unless it comes up positive for something.

When I got back from the test someone had printed out an article from the Collins web site and left it on my station. It was about the radio (MIDS JTRS) I have been working on for the past year and a half. It's great to hear that the test went OK! This is the second new product I have worked on from the initial design steps. It is always hard to get all the manufacturing bugs worked out . Constantly, they are changing and reworking things as the engineers change the product to get it to work. It keeps me busy, most of the time I like being busy. It has been very hectic at times, but it satisfying to see something evolve into a product line.