This was posted on another blog http://www.jimplagakis.com/ by a fellow Senior RPH that I know..
Again, I would stress the importance of NOT signing anything associated with your employment without having a lawyer look at it.
I spent time working with CVS loss prevention and I can tell you that most of the time when they initially “interview” an employee, they are working on suspicion, not facts. If they can get you to sign something or confess, so much the better, it just makes their job easier.
I’m not sure either that this drug screen would hold up as a reason for either a reprimand or termination, but keep in mind, once you test positive for anything, even if it is an error, it is perminent. Example: A life insurance policy app will ask you if you “have ever had a positive AIDS test”, not if you have been diagnosed with AIDS. I have a nurse friend who once tested positive for AIDS during an employee screening. It was determined her results had been confused with a another person with a similar name. No matter. She now has a positive AIDS test on her record. I’ll bet it is the same way with drugs and by the pharmacist signing off on the Darvon deal, I would imagine a fancy lawyer would say that establishes guilt.
Don’t sign anything!!! I drill this into all the students I precept. If you get in a bind, even if it is your fault, don’t sign anything and don’t admit anything, just get a lawyer.
I don’t know if this only applies to discharge agreements.. BUT… Federal law mandates that any employee has 24 hr to review anything before they sign it .. UNLESS.. they are 50 and over..then they have TWENTY-ONE DAYS!
According to this Senior RPH’s experience… employers apparently work under the premise of “GUILTY until proven innocent”
Remember … every day .. document… document.. document… your employer keeps a file on you… do you keep a file on your employer ?
I know one RPH.. that when s/he was discharged from a major chain.. had enough information to fill a FIVE INCH BINDER… s/he is now talking to a major attorney firm.. With that much documentation… it is just a matter of how many ZEROS that are going to be on the check s/he gets from his/her former employer…
How thick is the binder you have on your employer?
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