false postives

[ben]

 :-[I am in an enhanced bench porbation program for two DUIs. This program is very strict and requires no driving, drinking or drug use of any kind. It also includes regular polygraphs. I made the decision to follow the program scrupulously and have done so fro a year and a half. My first polygraph was in August and I passed even though I was very nervous. The second one was a couple of weeks ago and it said that i was lying about using illegal drugs and driving. In all honesty that is completely not true. I have done anything close to driving other than vivid dreaming and as far as drugs go I have smelled marijuana at a neighbors and taken advil.

  The examiner asked the questions three times. Before he had told me I had "trouble" with the two questions I had asked how many times he normally asks the questions and he said 3 but if there are inconsistencies he may ask the questions 4 to 6 times. So when he later told me I was having "trouble" with the two questions i said why don't you ask me the questions again and he said he didn't need to, that the results were conclusive. Obviously I was livid. It's hard to understand how it could say I was conclusivly lying when I was absolutley telling the truth.
  Now I am missing my best friends wending because of this and am incurring some other increased sanctions when i should be being congratualted on how vigiliantly I have been following this judge's program.
   The lesson i have learned is that POLYGRAPHS ARE EVIL.



                           Ben

[Jaimie Blackstone]

I had to take a polygraph once when I was working in a Purple Martin Gas Station after one of the $100 drop envelopes went missing. Everybody took it, I failed it and was fired. Ten days later the assistant manager found the missing envelope in a jacket he did not usually wear. I was asked it I wanted to return to work, but I said that after the trauma of being fired over a matter of trust, I could not work for someone who put me thru all of that. I collected unemployment insurance for a year instead ;-)

[ben]

Thanks, i am glad to hear of some other false positives. I can't wait until I am off of this probation to tell the judge what I think of her believing the false postive polygraph over me when me record in her program was spotless.

[ben]

 

[ben]

 :'(On the next one I will just assume it will be a false positive and maybe i will be able to relax.