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Holiday Drug Screening and Predictable Behavior

Holiday Drug Screening and Predictable BehaviorDrug screening around the holidays tends to come with an understanding that many people are either celebrating early or are suffering from family issues and therefore have a small right to abuse drugs or alcohol while in the workplace.

This is not true.

In reality, people who are suffering from family issues, loss of a loved one around the holidays, or who feel the compulsive need to celebrate early are all masking their pain, rather than dealing with it in a systematic and thorough manner, so that they do not feel it anymore.

Pain is not something which can be avoided. It must be faced, and the sooner you face it the better. Why is this? The answer is that if you put off pain, you will be less prepared to deal with it the second time around. However, if you deal with it as soon as you can emotionally handle doing so, it will occur much closer to the incident and therefore you ability to tolerate large amounts of pain will naturally be higher than at other times.

When dealing with work related stresses, many employees satisfy their frustration by putting their bosses down and half assing the job at work. However, if this continues, they will teach themselves how to be more and more stressed out as time goes on. This self teaching then leads them into finally leads to much higher stress levels and very real anguish the next time an incident occurs.

Around the holidays, remember that drug screening is supposed to be read just as if the holidays were not happening. Yes, people may be more stressed out at this time, but their behavior is just as inexcusable as at other times, and you will still have to make a decision about whether or not to retain them as employees. In fact, workplace drug testing laws only cover certain industries, but we could do with a little more self discipline and a little higher expectations for our behavior. It helps us grow as people. For more information concerning the convenient onsite drug and alcohol screening Mediscreen provides, call us today:(+61) 1300 79 70 40.

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