Monday, October 14, 2013

Dirty Manager

In policing our halfway houses we sometimes surprise everyone and show up with a box of drug tests and do a random screening.

And in a group of 15 or 20 clients it’s not unusual to find one who’s dirty for something.  At which point the client is discharged with a chance to return in three days.

We did the same thing yesterday morning.   But it wasn’t a random screening of clients.  This time it was a random screening of forty some managers who were gathered for the regular monthly management meeting at the corporate office on Macdonald Street.

And guess what?  Out of the forty, one tested positive for meth.  And another – a former manager who was visiting – became angry and disappeared before he could drop a sample. So the assumption is that he was positive for something.

It’s disappointing when a manager shows up dirty. But we know they’re as susceptible to relapse as any other addict if they’re not spiritually and emotionally fit.

Our mandate is to provide a clean environment for recovery.  And we do everything necessary to ensure that happens.

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