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It has, in the main nothing to do with how you work, what business is it of my employer what I do in my spare time if it doesnt effect my work?
By randomly testing people they are assuming people are guilty.
It also ignores the far more likely option of workers coming impared because of their alcohol use. How many co-workers do you have who come in at least one day a week with a serious hang over?
There is also the issue of the tests themselves, the simple urine tests are not massively accurate, they do make mistakes. But as soon as you get a possitive result, then be it a mistake or not your fucked.
One too many poppy seed rolls, or de-congestion tablets and you've got a possitive result.
There is one thing to ensure that people are not off their faces while at work. Sadly these tests do not discriminate between past and present consumption. As far as I am concerned I am free to do 17 million lines of coke at the weekend and 10 pills to boot. So long as I am fit to work on Monday it's nobody's fucking business what I've been doing at the weekend.
As it happens, if I were an employer I'd be more willing to employ people who take or have taken drugs in the past than people who'd never touched them in their lives.
Police and MP's especially. Untill that happens I fail to see why I should take them.
Why's that?
what a pleasant surprise. i worry that people are becoming too complacent ...just letting big brother take over because it all seems to be so positive ...so necessary ...so good for us.
like i said ...pleasant suprise.
Until a reliable test can be produced that can tell whether a person is under the influence of drugs while at work no tests should be carried out. Certainly not for non-critical jobs; aircraft pilots, train drivers and other such positions are a different matter.
What is it?