name's Brian
hi i'm Rita from Garland
oh nice to meet you Rita
uh we have quite a in depth subject here don't we
yeah we do
why couldn't we get something simple like movies or books something more uh more fun
exactly some of the boring ones you just kind of babble on i guess
yeah well we will we'll just give lots to talk about won't we
all right we ready to give it a shot all right
yeah that's right
okay
okay well uh i have a business of my own
uh-huh
and i feel pretty strongly about it i don't mind being drug tested and i don't feel the employees should
yeah i agree with that i think especially in some of the the jobs that the government has you just need people who are you know
now you know
who are sober all the time to take care of them you know you're paying them to do a certain job and if they're
they're on drugs and doing things they're not supposed to be doing
no i i i you know i think sometimes that when you fly for example you know pilots and things like that or people um
uh-huh
that are even using uh automated equipment of some kind where another person could be injured you know
absolutely
you know and uh well a lot of times i think it depends upon
the occasion but you know i've never had any problem with being drug tested and i wouldn't think that other people should have either i guess that's sort of a personal opinion
yeah well you know what i think part of the thing that you do when you apply for a job is you you know you tell them that you're gonna do a certain type of work and be a certain type of person and
you know i think part of that is living the law
um-hum
i know if i had my own company i'd want people who are honest in all they're dealings so
well i have a private high school and uh we uh get permission from the parents before the children the students enroll
uh-huh
to allow random drug testing because i've seen what can happen
to youngsters who were not on drugs being around it and getting influenced by their peers who are
um-hum
and there's a lot of it in the public school system
oh absolutely i was i went to school in Plano when i was growing up
and
and just i don't know it was i was surprised how much of it was there
yeah and of course good kids try to stay away from it but i've seen kids
start out not being on drugs and end up being there because it was being sold right out under under their noses you know
yep
so uh you know i feel pretty strongly about it i you know i know that
there are people that say we're violating the civil rights and what have you but they don't have to enroll
yeah
you know they don't have to take that job if that's the way they feel about it
yeah and i think the second part to that is you know they're also violating civil rights when they're using these drugs illegal drugs
yeah that's right they're violating ours you know
yeah and i think you know
personally i the way i feel about it is it's a lot better that we go ahead and and help these people you know that when we find that they're they're using drugs that we help them to get over that so they can be
good people or not not necessarily i'm not saying they're bad people but they they can be productive people
well they can be more productive and more useful yeah i feel that way too we don't uh kick them out we ask that we call parents in if we haven't had one test positive yet but
right
if it did we would call the parents in and uh you know get help for them before it's too late
uh-huh
absolutely you know i think i look at especially some of the professional athletes and i was a big Mavericks fan for a long time and i watched Roy Tarpley you know
oh he just
he could have lost his life if it wasn't for someone who cared enough to say let's give you a drug test and find out where you're at
um-hum and uh you know it's just really a shame that he he couldn't get enough help to keep his career going
absolutely i think it's important that we remember that it's not the job that's important thing it's it's the individual
kind of like what you were saying that it's just i don't know to me that's it's putting the focus back where it should be you know sure
some people might not appreciate it but when it comes right down to it you're more worried about the individual and where their status is
yeah i think so and uh i think that youngsters who looked up to the Roy Tarpleys and
uh the other people that have gotten into drugs i think they're going to be more conscious of the effect it can have and they get you know look at what he's thrown away
yeah
you know a wonderful career a tremendous amount of money uh because he couldn't get enough help to over come it
uh-huh
and probably wasn't started early enough either
yeah
no but i think they can influence the youngsters in a good positive way when they're good role models
oh absolutely
and i think that's the key
now i think so too and like it's important you know i don't i have never been against being drug tested myself and so i feel that the owner of a company you know you set forth the policy and you follow through with it too
yeah
you know and it doesn't exclude this one or that one it's everybody's it's all it's all inclusive
yep
i know TI does that TI uh you know they never know who who's gonna be called
well that's good i i i like that idea very much
you know
um-hum it's just a random thing that they'll get a call in the morning
