Was the seal on the cup, or the packaging un-broken? Make sure it is, until you are ready to pee.
I noticed LabCorp labels/paperwork a lot of the times I’ve ever been drug tested or had blood work done. They seem to be a third party general biomedical testing company of some sort.
Drugs tests like this are almost always outsourced; that way the company doing the testing (LabCorps, or MDS or MediLab or whatever the hell names they go with) is certified, with the proper technicians, paperwork, equipment, etc to do the job. In the event of a more serious drug-related situation (I dunno, airline pilot high on crack?) then the testing is well documented in case it needs to go to court or something. I find it incredibly unlikely that your prescription will be an issue with you; I did a drug test in order to work as a chemist for a pharmaceutical company, a job that involved me being able to handle controlled substances such as morphine, fentanyl, oxycodone and cocaine (yes, cocaine!) and I had been taking very large doses of phenylephedrine as well as various other medicines to help me deal with the horrible cold/bronchitis I was having at the time. I simply scribbled it down on a form, and it wasn’t an issue (I got the job, obviously!)
Regarding the health and safety violations; yeah, I wouldn’t go in talking about lawyers and OHSA, but I would speak to the manager at the first opportunity and explain your concerns. The cleaning solution one can be fixed relatively easily. Either the solution is always taken from the original container, or it is dispensed onto the surface to be cleaned by a different means than your hand (a scoop, or spray bottle? also labeled!). Large rubber gloves (you can get them cheaply at Home Depot or something) ought to be sufficient (again, verifying the MSDS of the chemical, which can likely be found for free online to be sure it doesn’t react with rubber), and making sure that only small amounts are used and setting up a fan near an open window/door for proper ventilation ought to be enough.
Standing on milk crates is 100% unacceptable. They are not designed to take the weight of a human, and can break. A step stool, again purchased at Home Depot, with rubber/anti-slip bottom is sufficient. Make sure it is as anti-slip as possible; I know someone who suffered a workplace injury because they were standing on a plastic step stool that had it’s rubber worn away, and the stool slipped out from under them. They broke their collar bone and their right (dominant) arm in 4 or 5 places! It was a preventable, foreseeable accident, and you can bet your ass that Ontario’s WSIB fined the hell out of the employer!
This step ladder would probably be fine. You might be able to find something cheaper, but CSA approved is a good first step.
Seriously, for 50 bucks (plus your wages while you wait for the oven to cool, but there must be other things you can do in the meantime!), your employer can remedy a situation that can cost him a LOT more, up to and including his restaurant permit/restaurant itself.
Just go to your manager, tell them you were uncomfortable with a couple of little things, and since it has cost you your time to do the drug testing, you want to be sure than any such situations are avoided in the future. Suggest the remedies, and see what they say. They might just agree with you once they see that it won’t cost them a fortune to implement. Heck, at the worst, you can bring in your own damn rubber gloves and step stool, and make him look like an ass!
I keep thinking back to your dilema, Sweet Home Colorado, and wondering if it was resolved. I’m a little concerned.
So, are you still among the living, and still employed? What happened with the drug test?
Peace,
mangeorge
Sounds odd to me. Why would they give you a cup ahead of time, when they should be taking a sample and labeling it right there? You could fill the cup with someone else’s urine if you did it ahead of time. Doesn’t the lab have cups? I’ve never heard of someone not in the lab giving the cups out elsewhere.