Miggy has a question about drug test. (Long read-sorry)

Sorry I haven't been on here in a while- I've just been so busy working to catch up from the past several years.

I'm really hoping someone can answer a question about something for me.

As a reminder I was offered a full-time bartending position at a new Native American Casino on Dec 19th.

I resigned my notice with my former part-time employer and even trained my replacement.

The casino opened on December 23rd. My last day with my former employer was two weeks from the time I resigned.

The first part of January I was persistent in contacting my new employer to see when I could start work.

I was fitted for uniforms, paid for my gaming licenses, attended orientation, etc.

Another week or so went by and finally I was called by one of 4 Food and beverage supervisors who said to me, "To be perfectly honest, we have WAy too many bartenders."

I was flabberghasted.

I asked if there might be another position available- I am qualified to do several jobs.

About another week passed and a manager called me to ask if I would like to begin bartending the following night.

I was ecstatic until I showed up and saw the bar they assigned to me.

It is over by the front desk and actually looks like an extension of the front desk.

Still, I showed up every shift with a smile on my face and served as little as one mixed drink or beer every night for 33 shifts.

I took home approximately $5-$7 a night in tips as opposed to the other bartenders at the main bar who were taking home over $150 a night.

It became apparent to me the only reason why they hired me to babysit that bar was because I'm not as lippy as some of those younger bartenders who flat-out refused to work it and naturally the higher-ups wanted the bar open.

The past few weeks bartenders have been dropping like flies and I questioned one of the nicer managers who assured me that I would be moving up to the better bar.

Two weeks ago they promoted a barback and last week they hired a young, tattooed bartender and you guessed it: They were immediately put on the good-paying shifts.

I asked to speak to the Food and Beverage Manager and it didn't go well.

I didn't lose my temper or anything but when he'd say something stupid like, "Well, until you can get your sales up....."

MY SALES UP?????

From the three months I stood at that bar in the corner that NO-ONE knew even existed?

There was a point in the conversation where he said, "Look. I've seen your credentials and read your references. I know you've worked the Las Vegas Strip, New Orleans french Quarter, and Key West (and I pulled in thousands of dollars of revenue on those shifts too) but frankly I'm not seeing that you're a good bartender.

Now THAT hurt!

And if it wasn't bad enough that he said it once he said it another three or four times.

NEVER in all of my years of managing employees would I have used insults such as that.

I was so upset I went to my doctor and asked if I could be prescribed some type of very mild anti-anxiety pill. This pissed me off enough because I've worked extremely more stressful situations than I encounter with this man and never relied on any drugs to help me get through them.

The doctor gave me .5 mg of Alprazolam.

Two days later when the F&B Manager came flying through the area in a rage (this time writing up another co-worker) I made a joke to her afterwards (YES! I KNOW THIS WAS MY DOWNFALL) that it's pretty sad when you feel like you need to take an anti-anxiety pill before you come to work.

Not two hours later two supervisors were at the door, told me to follow them to the office and told me they believed I was on some type of medication because my eyes were dilated.

I told them I had taken one of those Xanax and they drove me to a local drug testing facility.

The 10 panel test came back "Non-Negative" and they said they had to send it off to MedTox Labs up in St Paul, Mn and that it would probably take 4 days to get the results back.

I have spent a WEEK googling different laws regarding all of this and the main one I keep seeing is that the ROM at the Lab will call ME first with questions such as who my prescribing physician is, the pharmacy where I purchased it, etc. and that if I am taking this legally than I am cleared.

This morning I finally got ahold of them and the man says they don't release the results to the employee- only the employer. How in the HELL is this fair and how can I even begin to fight it?

Does anyone know anything about this?

I feel so angry right now about the time I invested in them -just now finally got my benefits and believe me- that's the main reason I took the job.

To make matters worse I keep hearing that the Native American tribes don't have to follow the same rules as other private companies.

I suppose some of you will yell at me but it's worth it if I can gt any advice on how to proceed from here.

Thanks to you.

Miggy