After a few days at Panera, I received a call from Target asking me to come in for an interview. I thought, what the hell, an extra job couldn't hurt. Might as well give it a shot. Surprisingly, Target had THE most intensive interviewing process I had endured thus far. For the seemingly manageable job of "Cart Attendant", I faced four rounds of interviews. The first being a personality test that I'm fairly sure was promptly put in the trash can, the second being a series of oddly specific interrogations of times I had demonstrated leadership in my life, and the third mostly concentrating on whether or not I had any felonies on my record. You'd think the order would be slightly different, but hey. Somehow I was able to pass whatever method of scoring they used for these interviews and was given a conditional offer of employment. The condition being of course that I pass the fourth and final test, a drug test. I'm assuming this is where they weed out the majority of candidates. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for denying employment to drug addicts. The thing that gets me is the drugs which are considered the most harmful (cocaine, heroin, meth, PCP) are not detectable by a urine test after a maximum of seven days (and usually more in the 2-3 day region). Whereas the drug in question, the most popular, believed to be least harmful, drug with the shortest lasting effects takes a minimum of 15 days and a maximum of 30 days to disappear from one's urine.
Not that any of this is pertinent to my situation. I already had a full time, better paying job across the street and I probably wouldn't have ever worked for you, Target, even if you hadn't required a drug test. But, I'm just sayin'.
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