all right wasn't the Mayor of New York um arrested for cocaine abuse or was it somebody else
no that was DC yeah it was Mayor of DC
DC i couldn't figure out if well Koch is New York isn't he okay
yes he is
but it was uh Mayor Berry uh yeah but my i i guess my feeling on drug testing in the work place i am one hundred percent for it
yeah Berry
oh i am too yeah so we got nothing to disagree about
you are um
yeah i know and um it it i a lot of people you know have a problem with the random testing like why should i be tested and that person not tested but the point is is that nobody should
they can't test everybody
right and that you know it's it's
it's illegal i mean maybe if drugs were legal then this would be all different but drugs are illegal and therefore it shouldn't be it it should be the law that we're able to test for something that is illegal
right
well
right and most of your work places it can be dangerous if somebody's drugged using drugs
that's for sure
especially school i don't think there should be any kind of limits set on school officials being tested
um-hum
um-hum i agree
bus driver you know that commercial with the you know they show a woman doing cocaine or something and then you think it doesn't affect you and then you see her she's driving the school bus
right yes oh i love that commercial i know that one's really powerful
it pulls at you
but you know it's true um not even the interaction with people like one on one but well i guess this relates to the school bus but people in warehouses that are driving forklifts you know that um
uh-huh
there there could be some serious accidents
i know it just well and like at TI do you work at TI
that's really that's a shame
no i don't
okay well at TI you're messing with all of those chemicals and stuff and if you mix the wrong chemicals or whatever it can put out toxic fumes
yeah
what is the policy at TI do you have to be drug tested or
well um i worked there for a while Manpower employee and i was tested before i even started
oh that's where i work i work at Manpower yeah
you do yeah where are you working at then
well i i work for Manpower i mean i'm a surv i supervise the office yeah huh so you were a a temporary working at TI oh neat
oh okay uh
uh-huh and i well i quit when i found out i was pregnant i was just really scared of messing with the chemicals
oh
yeah i don't blame you
and uh TI is strict on their chemicals but they don't really
um
i don't know i just wasn't didn't feel safe messing around it
um-hum but you had to be drug tested before you could work the
oh yeah before yeah Manpower did it so
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that's interesting um here you know Kodak is the the big name in Rochester Kodak
what is that
what is that oh the film the company i'm sorry
what is Kodak Kodak yeah the film right no it's okay but um
i mean in Rochester everything is Kodak but you know but half the population here works for Kodak and um usually they set the trends and originally um it was only the people that were working in the industrial
type of facilities facilities that needed to be drug tested because they felt that if they were using drugs they would be the most dangerous versus office type workers who probably
uh-huh
i don't know you know what they they never saw what sort of um
you know problem they could have if they were using drugs i guess i don't know but um just in nineteen i guess it was nineteen eighty nine they started testing everybody
so now anybody whether you want to go in and work in the cafeteria or be
can they spot test you
yes they can but they can't do it more than once a year i think you you can't be tested more than once a year
okay
hum
would they spot test at TI
yeah they'll do it anytime i'm i'm not sure what limits they set on it but i know that you had like eight hours to go in and do it between the time you were told and the time you had to go be tested
yeah
um-hum oh well
um-hum that's good
well um the thing you know you brought up about Mayor Berry i uh you've probably seen the clip on the news the one where he's um
uh-huh
going into that room and and making the deal with somebody did you see that well the you know he got
right
he got acquitted or whatever the term is but the yeah that he was um the charges were removed that to me is so
acquitted
it's political
oh i know and it's so absurd because now kids are going to see that and say oh look he got off the hook i'll get off the hook too you know
yeah
well in that uh book that Kitty Kitty whatever wrote saying that President Reagan can you see the President being tested no he wouldn't be tested
yeah right
oh i know
yeah that's true
which i don't know how true that is but i thought that was kind of funny yeah but
really well i think everybody should i think it should become just a a standard law
but well even office workers i mean you could play with computers and lose what all kinds of information if you're just not careful i'm not even uh
sure yeah that's true
all that great with computers but i know just one mistake you can lose the whole record or i can't even remember the word program yeah
um-hum um-hum
program yeah
but um i think that your point about schools is um probably the first place to start because they're the ones that are influencing
the new generation you know that are going to become the people working in those companies
yeah
well
when i first started looking for work there wasn't any drug testing and i'm twenty six now and it seems like they've always every every job you go for you have to be tested
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um-hum
yeah
so i think i think that's good see i've never used drugs personally so
um-hum no me either
and i don't really want to be under the influence of somebody that is especially i could see a supervisor going nuts because well they do go freak out over anything you know
right
oh i know it's crazy it makes me so upset to hear about all these movie stars and you know TV stars that have gone through some sort of rehabilitation and because um
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i guess those those those people are so glorified you know they're the the the sitcoms on TV that's like perfection and then to find out that um uh Michael J Fox you know went through three years of using cocaine you
right
he did i didn't know that
yeah he did i just read an article about that um it it just shatters my whole feeling about him and and then i just think about the kids that glorify him or the you know just idealize him or whoever
right
well most of the kids growing up in entertainment business do have troubles because they're in on the fast lane or whatever yeah
yeah and they have the money you know they don't have to worry about where they're going to get the money to pay for it yeah
where they're going to get the money to do it
right but even if you don't have the money people that really want drugs will finds the money somehow
unfortunately yeah
while i was in college uh college i did a
a paper on that just how many people most of the people criminals has got drug problems you know it's just one of the major
um-hum
reasons they're out to break into peoples houses and whatever yeah
um-hum right exactly exactly it takes over i even um i forget if it was 60 Minutes or something where people in jail are even getting drugs
oh yeah but that's always been going on
i i know and isn't that insane i mean how does that happen it just doesn't make since to me
well from watching TV they'll put it in the the women'll put it in their bras or in their mouth and kiss the men or whatever if they can get a touch visit or whatever it's called it's wild
uh
God
it really is crazy
i wonder if they get drug tested in uh uh prison
i don't know
now i know in the army my husband was in the army for awhile well he's in it for seven years they had urine tests all the time
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oh really
yeah and but they get people to do it for them
yeah
what do you mean they get people
all right say just per se my husband's friend that you know knew that a pee test was coming up he would ask my husband to do it for him i mean not that my husband did it but oh yeah
oh my God yeah are you serious and and it would actually work like they could get away with it
well
yeah because well because most of the time it was one of your contemporaries heading it up because my husband was like he was an E5 which is uh acting sergeant and he would uh
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no i'm not saying my husband did it but he's told me it's went on but his buddy would be coming through the line hey Ken i can't do this can you do it for me
um-hum um-hum
you know and like i said it's all of his contemporaries and his friend's there so he just you know he was in command or whatever so you know that happens that happens a i'm sure that happens a lot
right
oh gosh that is really scary it's really scary to think that uh some of these guys that were over
yeah
it's not a lot of them because not all of them have the nerve to do it so
right that's true but it could just take one that that's in charge of a gun a cannon or a gun or something you know
yeah well yeah now most of the time if they're fire well no they can do fire on practice ranges but there's usually lots of room for it too but if you get caught you get busted out of the army and they can send you to Leavenworth so
right
they can where
you know not many people Leavenworth isn't it Leavenworth that the
that is that a prison oh
uh-huh yeah it's i think it's a government prison for um like treason and or
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um-hum i see
wow
the base my sister was on had a prison of their own which they they they're pretty strict in the Army i mean you get caught doing much of anything you get busted so a lot of people won't do it
yeah
well they need to be pretty
