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I don't do any drugs except alcohol and caffeine. But I don't have the right background anymore, so…
I see a different problem: lack of jobs that don't drug test. I don't do any drugs and never been a fan of weed, but I sometimes won't apply for a job if they drug test. I wish I could stick to this every time. The no-drug-screen screen is actually a good filter. Companies with drug-screening are, on average, more unpleasant to work at. Just say no to drug screening, kids. Edit: alright, to be fair, some of those job…
Drug testing is absolutely a good idea for jobs where worker impairment presents an imminent physical danger to lives and property (e.g. trucking, medical professions, powerline repair crews). Likewise, limited use of criminal background checks may be a good idea for certain jobs (a bank robber shouldn't be allowed to work in a bank). But the idea that these should be general conditions of employment across all indus…
Do you see Bayer or Purdue actively campaigning for removing drug testing? I don't.
These are all the people that will have a very difficult time re-entering the work force due to high prevalence of drug testing.
Drug testing is absolutely a good idea for jobs where worker impairment presents an imminent physical danger to lives and property (e.g. trucking, medical professions, powerline repair crews). Likewise, limited use of criminal background checks may be a good idea for certain jobs (a bank robber shouldn't be allowed to work in a bank). But the idea that these should be general conditions of employment across all indus…
When I was in school some of the bus drivers were drunk, stoned or tripping on LSD. It really was a lot like the bus driver in The Simpsons.
Back then truckers would do the same and stay awake driving for days; some of the stories I've heard make me wonder how they ever survived long enough to get clean.
>criminal background checks
I know of a woman who became a school bus aide after a background check and she was in prison for attempted murder and human trafficking so I don't put a lot of confidence in these preventing employment, only will cut down on applications.
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You care because you don't want to deal with workplace injuries and druggies stealing your stuff. Roofers are high turnover, low/moderate skill folks. If the business model requires reliable guys, you may consider it.
Better not hire any drinkers, then. They might steal your stuff, and pawn it for a fifth. No smokers, too. Nicotine withdrawal is hell.
If your reasoning is impairment in some jobs could cause physical harm - surely a reaction time based test should be implemented for these workers to complete each morning before they turn on this heavy machinery. This would be much more effective in identifying unfit workers, doing it daily ensures that workers are prepared to work for the day when they come in.
Its definitely disappointing seeing a supposedly educated group of people buying in so readily to ages old propaganda. I cant believe how many people think a pre employment drug test is going to keep truckers off meth - let alone completely legal and untested things like nodoz, cough syrup, sleep medicines, etc.
I'd much rather drive around a trucker on marijuana than benadryl, and i'd absolutely rather drive next to a trucker who used marijuana 12 days ago than a trucker who is double dosing cough syrup and taking some nodoz to stay awake.
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> Several days from interview to test Not enough time to piss clean from Cannabis, but enough for some of the harder drugs. > And as the article suggests, its almost exclusively whites not passing Doesn't that make drug tests a racist practice?
Does the racial make up of NBA rosters make the NBA a racist organization?
I have seen no evidence that drug tests for most jobs are an effective predictor of job performance and do anything beyond giving a cover for racial and class prejudice.
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Yet many federal employees aren't tested. I spent five years as a DoD employee with secret security clearance and never had to take a drug test.
You did an SF-86 and went through the whole OPM background check process for Secret and weren't drug tested? Seriously?