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I can tell you right now if any job required a drug test, I wouldn't work there. I use cannabis sometimes but it's more the principal of it. It's a privacy vi
by antisyzygy 3y ago
I can tell you right now if any job required a drug test, I wouldn't work there.
I use cannabis sometimes but it's more the principal of it.
It's a privacy violation and positive results don't actually mean you're intoxicated on the job. What people do in their free time is nobodies business so long as it's not harming other people.
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- vuln 3y agoI have not seen a single social program, safety net or entitlement that requires a urinalysis to obtain.
- garciasn 3y agohttps://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-drug-test-states https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-dru...
- noman-land 3y agoTheir _demand_ for dignity also fights against normalizing this behavior even for those who don't have the privilege to make such demands.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoTry opening a restaurant and requiring your staff to pass regular drug tests. Good luck.
- antisyzygy 3y agoI'll keep taking advantage of my "privilege" to not participate in injustice.
- cyberax 3y ago> I can tell you right now if any job required a drug test, I wouldn't work there. Airline pilots? People operating dangerous machinery?
- moomoo11 3y agoSure. Not jobs for me. I wouldn’t do it either out of principle. Someone else can.
- Zircom 3y agoSo why is getting shitfaced the night before flying a plane or jumping in a 20 story crane okay but not smoking a joint?
- plonk 3y agoBecause cannabis can have effects up to a week after if I remember correctly. And it’s not very predictable. Alcohol is cleared out at a predictable rate and has no effect after a few hours, you’ll just be tired.
- stouset 3y agoMarijuana’s effects last about one to three hours. A bit longer if ingested. There might technically be longer-term effects noticeable in a clinical setting, but nothing to a degree that would impact somebody’s ability to function at a typical level.
- Zircom 3y agoTo my understanding "being tired" (which is absolutely part of being hungover the next day after a night of heavy drinking) is comparable and according to some sources pretty much equivalent to being "under the influence" in terms of how much it can impair you when operating heavy machinery.
- antisyzygy 3y agoI know a couple railroad engineers. They basically had to give up drinking because they could lose their job. They do some kind of test that can pick up if you drank in the last couple days. The way they assign shifts too causes the problems. If a shift pops up, they wanna take it, and that could happen at any time. In any case I'd wager it's related to the hangover problem. You don't want a tired, distracted (by headaches or whatever), grumpy person moving 12000 tons.
- Fatnino 3y agoI worked at a California startup that got aquired by a huge east coast corporation. At the all hands where the east coasters were introduced, one of them announced that we would all have to get drug tested within 2 weeks. We just looked at each other and then slow rolled them for the next month, lol. Eventually we all went and got tested together and no one got fired.