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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.
Galaxy brain move.
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.
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."
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.