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Weed the people? Companies relax drug-testing policies in bid to attract more workers
Near-full employment and changing attitudes about cannabis are prompting some companies to drop pre-employment drug screenings for marijuana, experts in human resources say. "It is happening," said Brian Kropp, group vice president at Gartner's HR practice. "In all the conversations we've been having with executives about this issue, more and more of them are dropping it," he said.
According to attorney James Reidy, chair of the labor and employment group at the law firm of Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, an increasingly common viewpoint among employers is: "It's an artificial barrier to employment. ... It's no different than having a beer Sunday night."
[...] A 2011 survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 57 percent of employers conducted drug tests on all job candidates, a number which likely has fallen since then, extrapolations from smaller studies suggest. A Colorado survey conducted by the Mountain States Employers Council (now called the Employers Council) in 2014, the year the state legalized marijuana for recreational adult use, found that 77 percent of employers said they conducted drug testing, a figure that fell to 62 percent three years later.
Also at Southeast Missourian (AP).
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @09:43AM (10 children)
I do stuff that is top secret... well sort of beyond that. In theory, I could be drug tested. The reality is that they interview everybody I know, so they'd track down any supplier.
Smoked pot 9 years ago, back at a party in college? Those people are going to be interviewed.
Simply put, pot is career-limiting, and for what? To cloud your mind so you can experience being dumb and crazy? I happen to value my mind; it is how I make my living.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday May 08 2018, @09:51AM (1 child)
You call not being allowed to work in defense as "limiting"?
And giving away the small pleasures of life only to work in defense is... the opposite of limiting?
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @10:08AM
Not being able to work for treacherous companies that profit off of war thanks to our excellent corrupt government? Not being able to work directly for that corrupt government? Terrible! Unacceptable!
(Score: 3, Touché) by knarf on Tuesday May 08 2018, @11:31AM (5 children)
> I do stuff that is top secret... well sort of beyond that.
...and you're posting about the fact in an open forum on the intertubes...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:15PM (2 children)
Nah, it's just the prez posting AC, exaggerating again... He doesn't even know how to work his Cap'n Crunch decoder ring
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)
He's just a writer for this website [abovetopsecret.com].
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday May 08 2018, @04:28PM
You mean contributor? That link goes to a French database under the reddit-like RIPE.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:42PM
The fact that you might do classified stuff is not, in and of itself, classified. I've seen, done, read, and heard classified stuff. Probably most all of it has been declassified in the past 35 years, but I've never checked. I can tell you that I was here, or there, on such and such a date. There is no law broken, unless, and until, I start flapping my gums about the actual secrets.
So, GP does super-duper-top-secret shitzls. And, what did you figure out about his super-duper-top-secret secrets from his post above? Absolutely nothing.
If I were to guess, being a Soylentil, he probably knows all about the spies from the Galactic Federation, and has probably attended far-more-than-secret meetings somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy, where conditions for humans being allowed outside the solar playpen were discussed. Then again, he may just empty the chamber pot for the president.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @07:12PM
Do you dare to suggest the president cannot tweet classified secrets!
I guess he would have to resort to announcing them in a press conference. Or calling in to FoxNews to reveal them.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @07:09PM
Hydrocodone is not career limiting. I occasionally take that. Have for a decade minus a few months. They don't bother to test for it. It is prescription.
I don't drink for the same reason I don't smoke or take very much hycrodocone. I cannot abide the idea of losing control of my judgement and twisted humor. So I've never been able to put to the test how it would affect my code.
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(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Tuesday May 08 2018, @09:57PM
Riiight.
Well I worked for the government years ago and I won't ever again because it's not worth the low pay, power hungry bosses, and invasive screening tactics and background checks.
I should mention that even though the government has spent thousands drug testing me. I managed to cheat all of them including gas chromatographs combined with supposed dilution and adulterant testing. Pretty much the state of the art in drug testing is inadequate so why even bother?
I'll tell you why. Drug testing firms give bribes to all levels of government officials and all that shit keeps you subservient and unquestioning, how likely are you to step out of line after you've spent years spilling your guts about the most private aspects of your life and pissing in front of some buzzcut loser who "wants to see the urine exiting the urethral opening".
You tell yourself that shit's just life but it's not. I'm mad at myself for ever letting anyone treat me that way, why do you let big brother stress you? You know that sort of shit causes brain damage and depression?
You should be ashamed for the way such unquestioning subservient behavior has damaged the American way of life you bootlicker. A quiet traitor. Maybe you just can't cut it in the private sector and you have no other choice.