Posted: 11/8/2007 10:11:51 AM EDT
| Well I got flagged to get a random drug test at work today. What a waste of my time and money for the company. Oh well I got paid.... |
Well, I'll be fine since I always leave the blow out of the equation. If I hadn't I would have been screwed anyway, they did the hair sample not the piss test. |
Random drug tests are the 65 year old unarmed security guard in the mall...keeps honest people honest. the amount of employees caught by random drug tests is so low, the only way its justified is through medical and accident insurance payments. when there is an accident, most companies will drug test anyway. preemployment screening, and "for cause" testing catches the drug users. |
they take a couple samples of your hair and test it. Hair keeps arecord of your drug use longer than urine does. Hair Drug Testing |
They test for unauthorized hair grooming products. Usually done by companies to ensure their employees are not using competitors mousse/gel/spray/crew cut wax. |
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So, you signed away your 4th Amendment Rights to work for this company? What's next, your 2nd Amendment Rights? Your 1st Amendment Rights? Your 5th Amendment Rights? How about your employer comes to your house about midnight, unannounced, and asks to search your sock drawers to see if you have hoarded any "sticky notes", ink pens, or if you have pilfered any other office supplies? BTW: The first person who drags out that tired old complaint "Only the government can infringe upon your rights..." please feel free to blow it out your azz... |
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"Like a lot of folks in this Country, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as they see fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test, which I have no problem with. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check? I have to pass one to earn it for them! Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sit on their lazy butts and buy dope and booze with my hard earned money! Could you imagine how much money the government would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check? Please Pass on if you agree. Delete it if you don't." |
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The biggest UA shitstorm I ever heard about happened at my former place of employment. We made airbag inflators. The energetics were made on-site. Half a joint was found in the ashtray in the break area across the road from the propellant manufacturing facility (PMF). They UA'd EVERYONE who worked in PMF. They canned about 40 people for using speed. If your job is something other than working with dangerous and unpredictable chemicals, I really don't care if you come in wired or stoned, but when the material you work with is capable of blowing a 100 horse electric motor 60 feet in the air, you should probably just stick to coffee.... 
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Basically. I can also choose not to sign them away, by simply quitting my job.  Don't you feel better that people that work on (commercial) airplanes are randomly tested? |
That is what it amounts to. There is no Constitutional right to work for any employer. You contract to work for the employer and if the employer makes that one of the conditions of your employment then you can either agree to it or find other employment. This is common nowdays with many companies. Just look at the threads that come up periodically about not being able to carry at work. The employer is not infringing upon your rights because you have agreed to this infringement in return for employment. You don't have to give up your Second Amendment rights but they don't have to employ you either. These restrictions are valid. It is stretching them to say that your employer has the right to search your home, but theoretically based upon the case law as it stands, that would be valid if it was a condition of your employment that you knew about and agreed to when you accepted the job. If you don't want them to search your home then you don't have to let them, but they can choose to fire you for it. |