My dad had a story similar to this from when he worked at a bank. Someone brought in poppyseed muffins for the office, the same morning that the office got randomly selected for drug tests. The higher-ups were really confused when the entire office tested positive for opiates.
That would be pretty genius/because even if they were positive for something else (not opiates) management would still be like “This whole batch of tests is totally scuffed, we can’t use it.”
I remember at one place I worked the boss was really dead against the drug test and argued against them saying they were unnecessary since there was no evidence of drug taking.
Guess who calmed down when it turned out management weren’t required to take the tests. Yep. Fortunately his whole spiel did delay things about 4 days, so it was still beneficial to us.
I do think it’s kind of ridiculous that they apparently can’t tell the difference between poppy seeds and heroin. Seriously they can’t figure that out?
Heroin is made from opium poppy seeds, so, yeah, a residual small dose of heroin in your blood looks like the same opium from a serving of poppy seed muffins.
Technically its made from the milk/sap that is excreted by the seed pod, which ends up coating the seeds. Generally most all seeds intended for culinary use are washed and treated to remove the dried leftover sap from them, so really this shouldnt be such a significant issue. However, the seeds are very very small so it’s obviously not a 100% effective process.
They really should raise the threshold for a positive test if a handful of washed seeds on a muffin can trigger a positive, but because most drugs dont survive in your system beyond three days having the threshold be so low is about the only way they will catch an actual heroin user.
Really all piss based drug testing is a useless joke. The only drug that is easy to screen for the use of is weed, unless someone is using whatever substance literally constantly. And most people that use drugs that constantly are already probably not gonna do well in interviews or have good job histories anyways. Overall, they probably catch up more people who eat poppy seed bagels than they do people that actually do drugs
My dad had a story similar to this from when he worked at a bank. Someone brought in poppyseed muffins for the office, the same morning that the office got randomly selected for drug tests. The higher-ups were really confused when the entire office tested positive for opiates.
Someone knew there was a drug test and flooded the office with Poppy so they wouldn’t get caught.
That would be pretty genius/because even if they were positive for something else (not opiates) management would still be like “This whole batch of tests is totally scuffed, we can’t use it.”
I remember at one place I worked the boss was really dead against the drug test and argued against them saying they were unnecessary since there was no evidence of drug taking.
Guess who calmed down when it turned out management weren’t required to take the tests. Yep. Fortunately his whole spiel did delay things about 4 days, so it was still beneficial to us.
Galaxy brain move.
Might’ve been the muffin or it might’ve been the Fentanyl Friday team building exercise. We’ll never know!
I do love Meth Mondays.
I think Weed Wednesday is the perfect mid week pick me up.
Everyone loves the energy and productivity gains from weed.
How do you think civil engineers come up with the switchback interchange?
I also had a roommate fail to get a job over a poppyseed muffin.
I do think it’s kind of ridiculous that they apparently can’t tell the difference between poppy seeds and heroin. Seriously they can’t figure that out?
Heroin is made from opium poppy seeds, so, yeah, a residual small dose of heroin in your blood looks like the same opium from a serving of poppy seed muffins.
Technically its made from the milk/sap that is excreted by the seed pod, which ends up coating the seeds. Generally most all seeds intended for culinary use are washed and treated to remove the dried leftover sap from them, so really this shouldnt be such a significant issue. However, the seeds are very very small so it’s obviously not a 100% effective process.
They really should raise the threshold for a positive test if a handful of washed seeds on a muffin can trigger a positive, but because most drugs dont survive in your system beyond three days having the threshold be so low is about the only way they will catch an actual heroin user.
Really all piss based drug testing is a useless joke. The only drug that is easy to screen for the use of is weed, unless someone is using whatever substance literally constantly. And most people that use drugs that constantly are already probably not gonna do well in interviews or have good job histories anyways. Overall, they probably catch up more people who eat poppy seed bagels than they do people that actually do drugs