did they say anything
no
i guess we got ten minutes or something like that i don't know
oh okay
so what do you think
um i think they should do it
yeah
i i do because um with all all the sports you know and everything they're doing there
and also because whenever you're dealing with drugs like if you if you are on drugs then that affects the way you work and everything
um-hum
i agree but i think they're slow in testing you know i don't know
yeah
about yours but mines they so slow they tested some people twice three times and some people haven't been tested at all
oh really
um-hum
well see um and i worked for a steel mill the past two summers
uh-huh
and i had to go through you know a physical and everything and before they even told you you were hired like they just called me in for an interview
and i went in for my interview and then right there he said okay go down to the company hospital and you'll go through a physical so you know i mean it was really good that way because they they tested everyone right away
um-hum
and you didn't you didn't have any notice you know so like if you were doing drugs then like you didn't have a way you know to stop i mean it was still in your body
yeah
yeah
i like that i know when i i was in that like in the service and we didn't have we used to have to go every other month or whenever
uh-huh
to uh just do do we called it the golden flow but and they did random drug testing
just because
you know Uncle Sam but i've always thought that they were slow as far as outside of the government you know
uh-huh
because i've always i'm i'm use to it
oh really
it's no big deal
yeah well see you know i well
i guess if you're not doing anything it's no big deal people call it invasion of privacy not to me it's not because first of all if you're not doing anything they're not invading anything
right
you know and if you're taking medication from a doctor that's no big deal either
yeah because like what
because then they'll or you have a prescription
yeah you know what too whenever they did that for me like you know we had to take they did it blood and urine
and um they they gave you a paper right there and they said if you were out drinking or if you went out for a good time last night go ahead and write down that you did have beer or you did have alcohol or if you are on medicine go ahead and write down what medicine you are on
uh-huh
okay but i you know so they allotted for you know things like that like you know people didn't know they were being tested well you might have had a drink last night you know and that would show up too
yeah
yeah
well see they don't do a blood test to us
they just do a urine test which i think they should do a a blood test because then that tells them that you know they testing for drugs but i think
it's like i tell and then you know they have all this smoking stuff why don't they just test for alcohol because that's between drugs and alcohol that's it
um-hum
that's the biggest killer there is i think they should do both of them
um-hum
you know because then that that way they'll they'll get rid of they can help the alkies and then they can help the people that's on drugs
yeah and then uh it got you know it got backfired on a lot of kids too because a lot of kids
you know
um like you know like somehow they missed the physical or something
yeah
you know and they wrote down that they uh weren't but then they went back and they checked them like maybe a week after they were working and if they had drugs in their body i mean they were fired on the spot there was no ifs ands or buts about it
oh
oh yeah
uh-huh
um-hum i that's all right
yeah yeah i think this way too because in that steel mill i mean someone
and see some people always talk about the kind of job you do
um-hum
but it would that wouldn't be fair if they tested just people with strenuous jobs
yeah
because you know you you got your your your pilots and your your air traffic controllers your nurses your doctors
uh-huh yeah
yes i would want all those people checked but then you got your bus drivers your truck drivers are checked because my husband drives a truck they he has to pass a physical
uh-huh
you know but i think why don't they and and to me it's wrong to check just the people that you think are affecting the public
yeah
you know
uh-huh
why not just check everybody so
yeah yeah see they checked everyone in the mill too and then that was hard because you know someone would come in and they had a problem well then if i like some of the jobs i was doing was very dangerous you know
we were working with that steel that's thousands of degrees hot and i would have to cover for him you know like i would have to do two jobs for someone just because they they think they're being smart or something
um-hum
you know and i mean they even had um the the higher up management people would even come in periodically and have unexpected checks you know
yep
so it was really good you know they were checking you know visually and
uh with the blood and the urine tests
well that's all right
yeah i thought it was really good
because they check our bosses and everything and i think that's the way it should be if they going to check you know that way you can't stay well they didn't check my boss
you know yeah they checked him too so everybody's getting checked it's not like it's just little peons it's everybody
uh-huh yeah yes
right
and that that's the way i think they should do it that way it is random you know it's random because some people is already gone two three times and some people ain't went at all
uh-huh
and they just when your number comes up your number comes up
yeah right and then uh they checked us like once during the middle of the summer also
um-hum
you know like it's not like they just like well then the second time when i got hired i knew what was coming you know so then they checked us again in the middle of the summer
yeah
so i thought that was really good too
i don't i
well i think if you're doing something really bad it's going to show up
uh-huh
yeah
you know
yeah
i don't think you can hide
certain drugs
no i think it what is it like
i know even even like steroids well how long does it take for marijuana to get out of your body
that's thirty days
see so there still
they said it was thirty days but
on one of my our our thing is they said that you'd have to the way the test is you'd have to really be smoking for it to show up and i don't think that's right
oh really i thought it would show up with no matter what amount we
that's what he told
that's what they tell you but i think it is i think it'd show up no matter what if you doing it then it's going to show up
yeah
and and steroids i mean that kind of drug that's a lot longer
yeah
that takes a lot longer to get out of your body
i think they should check everybody everywhere that's working because see they got this and that's just like even all the football players yeah i think they ought to check them because you get kids looking up to them and here they are strung out on drugs what good is that you know that's not good
that's right yeah
and even and even uh
i don't know sometimes i think they should even check the the music you know the entertainment
oh yeah because the the
with with uh the movie stars and and the singers and everything
yeah
because they get strung out too
yeah
they're no different
um-hum
but i guess you know that's they contract they don't
and they're out winning awards you know and then and then the younger kids think they're great and everything
but yet
and then they're strung out on drugs secretly
exactly
you know they go off because they have a drug problem
uh-huh
huh-uh that's not right
yeah you know what i think's i bunch of bull too is whenever um they um really you know like nationwide or you know popular people
they do have a problem and they come out and they say they're having the problem so then they get more publicity because they admitted they have a problem and they're trying to fix it
yeah
well what about the Joe Shmoe who's an alcoholic and he's trying to fix it you know but he's not getting any
he they're not testing him because they only testing for drugs
yeah
right
and i think they should test for alcohol
uh-huh
because we have some alkies too boy you can smell it on they breath
you know it's bad when you can smell alcohol on somebody but there's nothing you can do because they not drunk
but you know they drink constantly to get that breath smell
uh-huh
yeah
you know
but i said no they they getting on the smokers and stuff but i think i because like i told one guy i says smokers don't kill people in a wreck from being smoking
that's right
you know drunk people kill people from being drunk
that's true
i never thought of it that way but that's true
so why are you know why don't they just to me they ought to just do the blood test for alcohol
um-hum
and i said they'll have more people then
yeah
oh definitely
i mean you know i can understand like on a Monday
yeah but then you can look at it there too well alcohol's legal
yeah but so is cigarettes
yeah
you know so why charge me more
uh-huh
so you know drugs is not is is is not legal
some of them are
yeah um-hum
and some people are addicted to prescription drugs
exactly yeah
and so what's the difference
um-hum
you know they still got a drug habit but they're legal
that's true
they got a drug problem but it's legal you know it's like huh-uh huh-uh no they need they need some help too
uh-huh
um-hum um-hum
because they check those and i know one girl she was on some kind of medication
but see they didn't bother her because she had a prescription
yeah
but i mean what if she was hooked on them you know
that's true
how they going to know just because she has a prescription
how are you going to tell if she's hooked on them you'd have to take her off them you know some people
i mean that's they they they go off them and they they're going to die
um-hum
yeah
so you need to to me if they going do a
they need to keep checking like if somebody's got some drugs in they system
um-hum
and it's all prescription it's fine but what kind of drug is it
yeah
you know and then how long are they supposed to take it
uh-huh
if they people have prescriptions for Valium but they're not supposed to take Valium twenty four hours a days you know all the time that's for if they have a problem
yeah
and and then see that way you'll find out if they have a problem because if they keep taking it they have a problem
yeah
or they wouldn't keep taking them
uh-huh
and then also after you know they can find out whenever their prescription ends and then find out you know how long it will take for that to be out of their system and then test them again
and test them again and see if they have it again
uh-huh
um-hum because you know they don't give you a whole bunch of them pills
yeah
because they gave my husband some
when his mother passed but that was for like to calm him down
right
you know but see now they're gone
uh-huh
i think they gave him like four pills
no and then that was it
yeah
yeah
uh-huh
but see now they they would be out of his system but if he was to be tested
