On Thursday, I interviewed with an agency that is expanding into Springfield (from nearby Jacksonville). This was a large-scale group interview, with multiple applicants for multiple positions all interviewing more-or-less at once.
After the interview, several applicants (myself included) were given instructions to go for drug-testing and physicals. Another applicant asked “Does this mean we’re hired?” The HR person in charged smiled and said “I can’t say one way or the other, but it’s a good indication.”
Since I interviewed for a higher-paying position requiring a more thorough background check, I was also sent for fingerprinting.
*I passed the drug test with flying colors. I know this because it was instantaneous and the nurse and I watched the little strip together, and we could both see that the results were satisfactory.
*I passed the physical with flying colors.
*There is absolutely nothing in my past that would cause me to fail a background check. I have never been accused, let alone convicted, of any crime other than minor traffic violations. I have never been accused, let alone found liable for, any wrongdoing against a client in any of my jobs. I am literally clean as a whistle.
Yet they still have not called me back. 
Please tell me that an employer would not pay to have me drug-tested, physicalled, and background-checked and then not hire me. Pretty please?