subject: Alcohol Use at Work: Reasonable Suspicion Training for Supervisors in Substance Abuse [print this page] If you are friends with your employee, you will face a challenge in recommending a drug test. If you socialize and drink with your employee, this challenge is made even more difficult. Consider this: Most supervisors will put their own job security ahead of such friendships when drinking or drug use facilitates a crisis at work. Testing will not hurt a true friendship, and it may prevent a crisis that forces you to make a choice.
Alcohol Use at Work: Reasonable Suspicion Training for Supervisors in Substance Abuse