If you’ve ever been offered a job at The Washington Post, you know there’s one undignified step in the hiring process that just about everyone goes through, no matter how many Pulitzer Prizes they’ve won: You have to pee in a cup.
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Disclosure #1: Years ago, this reporter accepted a part-time job on The Washington Post’s sports desk and passed the paper’s drug screening, though not without considerable anxiety. Disclosure #2: This reporter’s fiancee recently accepted a job at the Post and passed the paper’s drug screening, but she never had anything to worry about.
