okay i guess they're
okay
so uh you go first yeah
okay um
i guess i um
haven't really thought about it for a while i guess um
the uh job part of the one i have now there is a
requirement that kind of came in after the fact that does since they have contracts one of their uh companies they contract with required it and uh
you know by then it was it was kind of uh um
you know they didn't explain up front that that might be a requirement but it sounded like it was kind of sprung on them by the uh firms they had contracts with
uh-huh
uh but it's it's not something i
think is appropriate i guess there might be exceptions you know if if you're in a critical position like you're a traffic controller or something like that
um-hum
but um it should
it it seems like uh
i guess the employer uh
is just
i think a massing too much information there's it's just an intrusion into
uh kind of your personal life
right yeah that that that's how i feel i feel the um the employee um the employer has concern about you know what's going on in my body to the degree that it affects how i am doing my job and
uh-huh
um there are lots of factors that affect how i do my job i i don't personally take any drugs but you know that's one factor that could affect something an employee's performance
right
uh-huh
there are plenty of other factors like i know for me how much sleep i got you know what i ate for breakfast those things have a lot big impact on how i perform during the day
yeah
and unless they're they want to get involved in all these other areas also
you know like maybe providing healthy meals healthy breakfast for employees or something like that you know i mean i i
uh-huh
uh that's you know that's one step and it what it is what they're getting into is the drug testing is a real quick and easy way and politically
um feasible way of going about this because you know everybody is going to be against drugs you know well just about everybody is against drug use so let's test everybody for it
um
but the thing is it's not it's not my company's business what i do on the weekends or in in the evenings you know if i show up for work hungover
right
then they've got something to say you know so hungover to the extent that i'm not able to do my job well
right
yeah i know think most impairments would be obvious fairly obvious you know but
yeah yeah but on the other hand if i go out and have fifteen thousand beers but then i'm fine the next morning
it's none of their business
right
you know what i do with myself or if if i smoke fifteen joints or something and i hit or whatever um
um-hum
and that's how i feel about it uh things drug testing for uh marijuana i guess can detect use uh or actually they can do tests with um with hair samples of hair and finger nails
uh
that can test or detect use like months and months and months previous
wow
you know and so it's obviously that there's not you could've decided okay i'm going to stop now and may have stopped for three months and still it would show up in these tests and that's completely unfair
yeah
um
also especially it's unfair when the companies don't offer some sort of treatment program also it you know it's like oh we find you with drugs so huh you're gone
yeah
get out of here
um luckily my company is doesn't uh do any of that sort of thing they they were talking about doing the policy of testing new people new employees as they come in but not anything it it wouldn't be random it would be everybody um
um-hum
and it wouldn't be current employees it would only be new employees um
but i you know i
yeah seems like it's a sneaky way to introduce it because eventually you know then everybody would
yeah yeah
done it and they they
right yeah it it'll be
you know the climate would be different then
yeah
and i i you know i don't think the companies have any
cause to do that sort of thing
unless there's you know reasonable suspicion you know if you come in
obvious glassy eyed everyday from lunch or something it's okay somebody's been smoking some pot here
uh-huh
then do a drug test if you have some reasonable suspicion but it's
right
you know there there there's so many things i mean if if i were going through a divorce for instance which is something a lot of people experience that would really negatively affect my performance
yeah
you know are they going to require that i stay married or that i require me to some how have a perfect marriage or something well then you know that doesn't make sense
uh-huh yeah
so it's
yeah it just seems like it's a intrusion i mean the the only angle they might have is if um
yeah
i guess if they're paying the insurance premium or something like that then it you know
uh-huh uh-huh
it might be that they the carrier the carrier they're using has a
has higher rates or something like that so there's there's probably an economic argument
right well
in in in in that case charge the employees extra
