Need Covers advice: My friend may lose his job by eating just a few bites of a POT brownie.

Call this naivety or ignorance by both of us, but here is the story.  For what it is worth, I do NOT currently work, so I am not making any of this up to protect myself: 

This past Saturday night we were basically the only patrons at the bar around midnight.  Since they were closing in about an hour and were not busy, the waitress killed some time by chatting with his other friend to our immediate left. 

As we were watching the Nevada-Fresno football game, she offered us some of her brownies that she either cooked in the back or brought from home.  I told her no thanks, as I am not much into sweets, but my friend tried a few bites. 

After about 10 minutes, she informed him that they were POT brownies, and my friend immediately got VERY upset.  He turned to his friend and her and questioned why they did not let him know beforehand that they were not just regular brownies. 

Whether or not he was telling the truth, his friend said he was unaware that they were pot browies.  When the waitress went to the restroom, the owner at the bar acknowledged that she was a pothead and came into work 30 minutes late a lot, but was very hard to fire since she was so sociable and friendly to talk to. 

My friend then stated that he could lose his job due to drug testing at work, where they have a zero tolerance policy.  Lo and behold, earlier today on Monday, he was 1 of 8 people that were randomly drug tested. 

BEFORE he went to the test site down the street, he informed his supervisor that he may test positive due to the few bites he had ingested from the pot brownie over the weekend.  His supervisor then justifiably said that there is not much he could do till the results came back either tomorrow or Wednesday. 

To ease his mind when he got home, he asked me if he should go by the pharmacy and do the home drug test.  I told him there was no substitute for peace of mind, and he agreed and bought the $20 test kit.      

At home he did the test, and unfortunately, his results were POSITIVE.  Since the results are probably pretty reliable, he will most likely be fired from his non-union job within a day or two. 

He does not have a college degree, is single with no kids, and makes about $40,000 to $45,000 a year.  Being there for over 10 years and capping out on his periodic raises, he is fortunate to be making that income from a low-skilled job.

If he retains his job for some reason, his anger will obviously subside.  But if he does lose his job like he fears, I told him to be completely forthright at work to at least clear his name.  Whether that amounts to him getting his job back is not the issue. 

And IF he does lose his job, he is considering suing the bar that allowed this to happen.  My friend has not touched marijuana in 15 years, and if he had known they were POT brownies, he NEVER would have taken a bite.  Once again, he knew the risks only AFTER it was too late. 

 Opinions and advice are welcome. 

He was unaffected by them. 

what kind of job does he have that they have random drug testing? i've only heard of testing when offered a new job. anyway, tell him to hire a good attorney.

 I have told him to call a good defense attorney that I know for advice if this goes bad as expected.

 Please reread the initial post before making such an asinine comment again.  He does not care for pot, and unknowingly ingested it.   

 He thought of the flush idea after it was too late.  He obviously thought he had done nothing intentionally wrong and there was nothing to hide.  I told him I will be his witness to the whole incident if it will help him at all to get through this. 

Stone free, do to what I please,

Stone free, to ride the breeze,

Nice going, AHole

Oh, and by the way, I didn't know it was illegal to perfrom armed robbery......................could happen to anyone.............

 Are you high?  I have no idea what you are talking about, so please expound.

This is hilarious to me because this same thing happened to my boss except he ate the cookie knowing full well that it was laced.

He failed the initial test but passed a follow up test and still works here

Gl to your friend

 I told him he better start betting more than $50 per game and try to hit a good run of gambling before he has to move back home with his parents.

I dont agree with piss testing at all. Its retarded and a waste of money.

I was a supervisor at UPS 10-11 years ago and they decided to do away with testing for the new hire part timers due to being a waste of tons of money. Yearly average turnover was in the 75% range

I have moved on from there and have been in management at a couple of other BIG warehouse distribution companies.....What I have learned behind closed doors is there is no such thing as RANDOM testing!

No company has a lottery system to draw names or anything close to it.

Here is how RANDOM testing is done.....What I have seen with my own eyes is that if upper management behind closed doors, thinks someone is a........

Troublemaker, isnt personally liked for various reasons, is performing just good enough to keep their job but not produce the numbers that management sets for goals, makes a much higher wage than others for the same job and since hiring cheap replacements. And the list goes on for reasons of selecting canidates for "RANDOM TESTING"

Those 8 at his job were hand picked by individuals in that company. And people buy into the fairness of random testing Reagan and all that just say no campaign is doing more harm than good these days in my opinion. If any individual challenges the validity of a companies random testing policy, that individual will lose to the big lawyers which sucks for innocent people who smoke one here and there.

And as far as suing the bar, I do not think there is enough proof in the court of law to win that arguement I mean it wouldnt hurt to have a free consultation with a few lawyers but I would expect for them to say you have a losing case just becuase of the situation how it happend

I myself was a victim to this recession earlier this year and was laid off as Operations Manager for a 2nd shift. Of course I knew something was up but was lied to. To these distribution companies, its all about cost per unit to ship. I was one of 5 managers who averaged about 80k a year let go. So that is a easy decision to the down sizers to take out the higher paid employees right off the bat. After I was laid off I heard they took out about 40 hourly employees. The avg. hourly pay for them was 10 bucks a hour. But im sure most of that 40 lays off were people who were way above the average. The shitty thing is I know there will be bigger bonuses to the upper management that are there for the cost savings this year versus last

Anyway sorry I could go on forever about bullshit companies.

And as far as what he should say if he fails which he prob will if he failed the home test. As I was typing that I just realized that he admitted that he should come up dirty He has no leg to stand on now if he fails.

There is a slight chance that if he failed he could demand another test at his expense and claim an error on the first but owell.

Mistakes do happen but these days that number is small these days due to tests for THC now basically dont have any substance that triggers false positives like they used to.