I will have to admit I am afraid to make waves. If one accusation of drug use in a pre-employment exam can completely ruin my chances of federal employment, FOREVER, I am extremely reluctant to go after the polygrapher himself. After all, it is my word, against his, and he has the backing of a government organization with a lot of money and good lawyers. I am just a struggling student straight out of grad school trying to find a job, who can't afford to pay the $300.00 an hour for a lawyer who specializes in this ;[
What I will be doing however, is taking a drug test at my own expense and sending it in with my letter to the FBI contesting my results. I will also be sending those results to several congressmen along with a letter explaining what happened to me. I am sure the FBI will "loose" the results proving I'm not a current drug user, or just say it doesn't matter as their policy indicates I could not have used in the past 5-10 years (depending on the drug) but hopefully any reasonable person conducting a background check would see my results and realize that someone who was "guilty" would not have bothered. Or one can hope.
I am still really upset about it, and haven't even been able to muster up the willpower to start applying to private sector jobs. I just feel beat down by this, and destroyed that I probably couldn't even get a clerks position now with the VA, or some other branch which doesn't deal with national security concerns.
It's also really warped my sense of the US government, big time.
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I'm also embarrassed, as many of my peers and supervisors know that I was up for a few federal jobs, and now I have to explain to them what happened, and I'm sure more than a few of them will sit back and wonder if I'm telling the truth, because the story is just so unbelievable.