So today I had to a drug screen for this new position I am going to take. Since one of my many jobs use to be that of a Toxicologist who ran Chemistry Analysers, I knew the routine and what to expect or so I thought. The one thing that you can never predict is people!!!
This is what happened. I arrived at Kendricks and went in with my reading materials to start the waiting game. They want you to sit out in the lobby for about 15 to 20 minutes in case you got warm clean urine sample under your arm pits or something deceitful to beat the test. Obviously I don't do drugs so I had nothing to hide! Well as I sit there in the lobby, three other black kids are there. What ever they were doing there, the staff was very concerned about them. They eventually said they had to leave and would take their test later. The staff ran out after them saying they are ready for them now, but the kids kept walking. So alone sat the remaining black dude......Me!
So since I was black, I must have known these other black folk and what ever they was up too ~right? Wrong sucka, yall know all black don't really look alike. Keep reading B4 I get upset and smack myself! Well I finally gets called back and not a moment to soon cause your boi had to go bad! This mean nurse comes over and gives me her Stern speech on what to do. I follow the directions and came out and handed her the sample to which she replied that I was on the lower end of the temperature scale. I asked how low and she said it was around 91 degree instead of 98 and that she can't make these situations up out of thin air! I knew what she was implying. She thought I had someone Else's urine and it was cooling off. I told her she could take my temperature or I could give another sample cause I didn't like what she was implying. I know that everybody temperature is not 98.6. Its just an average. Next thing I know the nurse tells me that they accidentally threw away my urine sample. Hummm what a surprise. Well they passed me on to the Dr in the next room. He was actually cool, so I told him what happened and what I know about the testing. He quickly apologized and told me that I was good and everything checks out good and he over wrote everything. He checked the nurse who was having a bad day and bad attitude and wasn't afraid to use it.
I think all this stemmed from the other people in the lobby getting her upset. Was this another case of racism, prejudice or just bad customer service? IDK, but I didn't like it. Nevertheless, I am working on forgiving negative situations because that is one point that the Bible focuses on. What a day.
Ward
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