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Stupid requirements lead to poor hiring. It's the government's own fault. I always wonder how much of their workforce a company like Google would have to fire i
by kbd 10y ago
Stupid requirements lead to poor hiring. It's the government's own fault. I always wonder how much of their workforce a company like Google would have to fire if they drug tested.
- mwfunk 10y agoHonestly, with all the big tech companies in SV that would be anywhere from 20-30% IME. And many of them would be among the best people at those companies. I can't imagine a better way to needlessly drive away good people than to have a zero-tolerance policy for weed. It's crazy that any employer still cares about this, as long as people are getting their work done and aren't using it on the job.
- kilroy123 10y agoThis is why very few companies care.
- vacri 10y agoAn agency whose reason for existing is enforcing the law can't really be expected to flout the law with its own personnel. It's not like the FBI itself legislated against marijuana.
- kmonsen 10y agoThey don't really have to do drug tests though. Should they for example install monitoring in employees cars to make sure they never speed?
- vacri 10y agoI don't mean to defend the FBI's activites, I just mean to note that if your reason for being is "opposing X", then it's reasonable that you check your employees for X. The FBI opposes drugs big time. It doesn't care about people speeding in cars.
- wolfgke 10y ago> The FBI opposes drugs big time. It doesn't care about people speeding in cars. First: If the FBI opposes drugs: then they should at least as strongly oppose nicotine and (in particular) alcohol, too. Oh, you mean drugs that are by some historic accident illegal. Second: Do the cybersecurity jobs one does at the FBI have any property that will prevent former pot smokers doing them? If not, it's simply a discrimination.
- vacri 10y agoIsn't the management of alcohol and tobacco in the US hived off to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?
- digler999 10y agoNot necessarily. They have a lot of "privileges" (such as being able to carry a loaded gun on an airplane) that are against the law for the rest of us. They could simply change the law and write themselves in the "privilege" of being able to toke up.