Drug testing, physical, and denying a job

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Hello, so I am a new grad and I am in the process of finding and accepting a new nursing job and I was scouted for a staffing agency for a hospital in the area that I am trying to work in. In order to even talk with someone from the hospital I had to fill out all the paper work, get a physical, drug test, and tb test. Finally after two weeks I got a call to interview at the hospital but I got offered a job else where and turned it down. After messaging the guy about not accepting the job, he never messaged me back, sent a letter to my parents home address (after all the paper work I filled out had my current address on it) of a bill for the testing. I messaged him asking for my paperwork that I signed because I did not read anywhere that I had to pay for it without going through with it but the only reason I went through with a physical was because he told me I had to in order to be able to talk with someone at the hospital.

Is is it a normal thing to go through the hiring process, deny a job, and have to pay back the amount for the physical, blood work, and testing??

Specializes in OR.

As others have said, you might be better off paying this and chalking it up to having a run in with a lousy staffing agency. You've got to remember, these people are not in this business to find you a great job. Their client is the hospital and you are the product they are selling. They only get paid if you take the job. Rather than try to sift through the small print and try to squirm out of this, use it as a learning experience and know what kind of questions to ask for next time.

Are their demands tacky, sleazy and underhanded? Probably. Illegal? Not likely.

Yeah I guess that's true. As frustrating as it is, it beats messing up my credit score. Thank you and everyone else for the input!

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