Look out Sprint... Here I Come!

[seniorstew]

I just completed the background app/drug screening and look forward to joining Sprint! I spent the last 4 years with T-Mobile as a rep, senior rep then assistant manager. Now, I just have to used to CDMA and its Wonderful battery life

[KG4PEQ]

Congratulations. Welcome to the family.

[LikwidFlux]

Congrats!

Drug tests.... *shakes his head*

[EliteABombAZ]

What kinda pay do Sprint reps get?

[KG4PEQ]

Congrats!

Drug tests.... *shakes his head*

I refuse to work for any company that requires it. I've never, ever done drugs, but it's the principle behind it... the "guilty until proven innocent" factor in mandatory drug testing.

[DigitalJEM]

I refuse to work for any company that requires it. I've never, ever done drugs, but it's the principle behind it... the "guilty until proven innocent" factor in mandatory drug testing.

I understand you're take on the subject, but you have to look at it from the companies standpoint. Not that you could do much harm at a cellular store, but it's the fact, that any employee on drugs, or having a history of using drugs, could be a big risk in employing. It only takes that employee high on something one time, and doing something totally stupid to cost the company millions of dollars (which is a hell of alot more than they're going to pay you your entire time working for them)...

Employment is a 2-sided deal. And they do what's neccesary to cover their A's :-D

[mdasen]

Part of the problem is that it has become increasingly difficult to identify good job candidates.

In the days of yore (aka 1950), you'd get a job because you neighbor, friend, relative or whatnot mentioned that their company was hiring. You'd stay with that company for several decades unless you were incompetent.

Today, people switch jobs, well, like they switch cell phone providers. They also often don't get said new job through a contact like they did in the past. In this case, everything from educational degrees to drug testing offer a small (if questionably accurate) peek into who you are. If the boss likes his worker John and John says you're great, hardworking, reliable, etc. the boss hires you because he/she trusts the person who says you're great. On the other hand, if he or anyone he/she knows has no experience with you, the boss then has to resort to other ways of figuring out who you are. All of these methods are less reliable than the personal experience of one's self or trusted friend/employee.

Firms must figure out some way of hiring people. Do you think there is a better method than drug user/non-drug user? You probably should. But drug tests are easy, so is looking at things like educational achievement, or counting years of experience - which may not correlate to being a good employee (or simply correlate weekly).

Basically: If you can figure out an easy way to screen potential employees for their value that is more accurate than current methods, every firm in the world will use it (if for no reason other than the fact that the firms sticking to less accurate ways will die out in the face of competition from the more efficient firms).

[dot_null]

Congrats seniorstew! I remember you well from the T-Mobile forum back when I was a customer.