B Valley
Rattlesnake Shaker
Until Thursday morning. I got an email from the highest person at one of my client's facilities that says something like "Mr. Valley, your employee attended a meeting this morning and while he was here, someone said he smelled of alcohol. He said he was drinking last night while out bowling but hadn't had anything to drink after 10
0 last night. Our chief security officer asked him to submit to a breathalyzer test and he refused. His clearance is being pulled and he is being driven home for his own safety." This was around 90 am.
Two seconds later the employee calls me in a panic and asks what he should do. I told him if he hasn't had anything to drink after 100 the night before, or that morning, he should be fine. He said he hadn't. I told him to go take the test and he calls me back ten minutes later to say he offered to take it and they said no. Apparently they took him to his car, our company vehicle, and he drove himself home. I called him and told him to get to a clinic and get tested immediately to prove his innocence and call me as soon as he does. By now it's 110 am and he calls to say "I'm okay, I blew a .02, twice!". I said "You should have blown a zero". I quickly check with our attorney who calls a friend very knowledgeable in such matters. His friend provides a schedule used by most courts that shows if he was .02 at 110, he would have been somewhere around a .07 at the meeting and at 60 around .12.
A blood alcohol level for drunk driving is .08 in this state and most others I believe. To make matters worse, he actually arrived on site at 50 am and would have left home somewhere around 4:30, and I have no idea what his blood alcohol would have been then. But he was driving a company vehicle, way above the legal limit and on a very high security site where they keep folks who are no longer allowed to be out in the general population. My company and our client both have Zero Tolerance rules.
I had begged this guy to come to work for me for a year before I hired him and HR had to bend over backward for me to get him everything he asked for and now he's gone. He knew when it happened he was gone and is finishing up some details. I'll have to drive four hours to go meet with him to make it official.
I couldn't be more distraught over this. This is genuine great guy who screwed up and knows it.
0 last night. Our chief security officer asked him to submit to a breathalyzer test and he refused. His clearance is being pulled and he is being driven home for his own safety." This was around 90 am.Two seconds later the employee calls me in a panic and asks what he should do. I told him if he hasn't had anything to drink after 10
0 the night before, or that morning, he should be fine. He said he hadn't. I told him to go take the test and he calls me back ten minutes later to say he offered to take it and they said no. Apparently they took him to his car, our company vehicle, and he drove himself home. I called him and told him to get to a clinic and get tested immediately to prove his innocence and call me as soon as he does. By now it's 110 am and he calls to say "I'm okay, I blew a .02, twice!". I said "You should have blown a zero". I quickly check with our attorney who calls a friend very knowledgeable in such matters. His friend provides a schedule used by most courts that shows if he was .02 at 110, he would have been somewhere around a .07 at the meeting and at 60 around .12. A blood alcohol level for drunk driving is .08 in this state and most others I believe. To make matters worse, he actually arrived on site at 5
0 am and would have left home somewhere around 4:30, and I have no idea what his blood alcohol would have been then. But he was driving a company vehicle, way above the legal limit and on a very high security site where they keep folks who are no longer allowed to be out in the general population. My company and our client both have Zero Tolerance rules.I had begged this guy to come to work for me for a year before I hired him and HR had to bend over backward for me to get him everything he asked for and now he's gone. He knew when it happened he was gone and is finishing up some details. I'll have to drive four hours to go meet with him to make it official.
I couldn't be more distraught over this. This is genuine great guy who screwed up and knows it.
