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Smoking weed is not going to get you fired anywhere, except for the worst jobs in the worst places. Any place that does regular drug testing and/or cares one te

by mwfunk 10y ago

Smoking weed is not going to get you fired anywhere, except for the worst jobs in the worst places. Any place that does regular drug testing and/or cares one teeny tiny itsy bitsy bit about employees smoking weed when they're not working is guaranteed to be a terrible place to work at, for that and any number of other reasons. There is not a single reputable company in the entire tech industry that does this.

exolymph 10y ago
Uh, yeah, "in the tech industry" being the huge caveat here. Most HN readers might work in tech, but most people in general don't.
CaptSpify 10y ago
> Smoking weed is not going to get you fired anywhere, except for the worst jobs in the worst places. Do you have numbers to back this up? Because almost every place I've worked at has had this policy. I think it's a terrible policy and should be illegal, but it's been pretty standard everywhere. Maybe it's not common in SV, but everywhere else it seems to be the norm, IME.
- npiazza83 10y ago
  It has never been an issue for me as I don't partake, but anecdotally, I've worked at 5-10 mid range (100-200) firms in Virginia and Illinois and while I have been provided many free beers at work, if anyone suggested a drug testing program they would have been laughed out of the building. I even worked for a company that ran drug testing programs for the government and they did not drug test.
bcg1 10y ago
That is definitely not true: http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/news/companies/dish-employee-firing-marijuana-colorado-court/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/news/companies/dish-employee...
- npiazza83 10y ago
  I think you just proved his point. http://cable.tmcnet.com/topics/cable/articles/2013/01/07/321699-dish-network-regarded-as-worst-place-have-job.htm http://cable.tmcnet.com/topics/cable/articles/2013/01/07/321... "Out of 617 ratings on glassdoor.com, fully 246 called themselves “very dissatisfied.” The number of employees considering themselves “very satisfied” was just 48. Some comments even suggest that executive meddling may be involved in the “very satisfied” scores, with one commenter saying “Joe Clayton (CEO) put us up to upgrading our score.” Another commenter called their time with Dish “...like a prison sentence.”

by mwfunk 10y ago

exolymph 10y ago

Uh, yeah, "in the tech industry" being the huge caveat here. Most HN readers might work in tech, but most people in general don't.

CaptSpify 10y ago

> Smoking weed is not going to get you fired anywhere, except for the worst jobs in the worst places. Do you have numbers to back this up? Because almost every place I've worked at has had this policy. I think it's a terrible policy and should be illegal, but it's been pretty standard everywhere. Maybe it's not common in SV, but everywhere else it seems to be the norm, IME.

npiazza83 10y ago
It has never been an issue for me as I don't partake, but anecdotally, I've worked at 5-10 mid range (100-200) firms in Virginia and Illinois and while I have been provided many free beers at work, if anyone suggested a drug testing program they would have been laughed out of the building. I even worked for a company that ran drug testing programs for the government and they did not drug test.

bcg1 10y ago

That is definitely not true: http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/news/companies/dish-employee-firing-marijuana-colorado-court/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/news/companies/dish-employee...

npiazza83 10y ago
I think you just proved his point. http://cable.tmcnet.com/topics/cable/articles/2013/01/07/321699-dish-network-regarded-as-worst-place-have-job.htm http://cable.tmcnet.com/topics/cable/articles/2013/01/07/321... "Out of 617 ratings on glassdoor.com, fully 246 called themselves “very dissatisfied.” The number of employees considering themselves “very satisfied” was just 48. Some comments even suggest that executive meddling may be involved in the “very satisfied” scores, with one commenter saying “Joe Clayton (CEO) put us up to upgrading our score.” Another commenter called their time with Dish “...like a prison sentence.”