They best get hot on the heels of the Temp agency's. They have been doing drug testing for YEARS and for some reason through the years I ended up working with some interesting people. Legal drugs, some on bipolar medication that they seldom took and went batshit, Methodone and lord knows what. I have seen seizures caused by people so desperate for a job they stopped taking their mediation, drunks with the DT's walk into a moving Fork Lift, scared the hell out of the drivers. Working around machinery with the gruesome warning signs on them in 3 languages and a picture of fingers being severed, even OTC medication that causes drowsiness is frightening.
All kinds of ways for a full time hired person to get around the rules, all depends on how valuable you are to the company. One woman when told to be more careful at work as an accident could cause her to be drug tested looked at her supervisor and laughed in his face. Oh no you won't, she said, and named off 5-6 full time employees all men that had flunked the test and had to go to 3 days of drug counseling. If I am fired I will yell discrimination as no woman had been fired for drugs because no woman had flunked the test. A 3 day off to spend an hour in a drug class each day was no problem for her. No worry about being fired. Seen a couple supervisiors get hurt on the job and they clocked out went to the hospital to claim they were hurt at home--no drug test.
Disaster, the worker hurt was tested not the person that caused the accident. So a worker high on drugs could cause great harm to another was off free and clear, the poor hurt worker was drug tested.------Sort of like a worker walked up to another and punched him in the nose, both were fired for fighting even if the injured did not fight back or try to defend themselves.
For drug tests on people being laid off or fired from a job, looking for state assistance for family's, I am behind a rock an a hard place.
Harks back to the social service that long ago would not give help to a family if the husband lived with the family.
Remember when family's had to break up when the father could not support the family and the woman and kids could not get help unless he left the family ??? Ghetto time, social workers came into a neighborhood and the kids ran door to door to tell the husbands to hide. One of the major causes of the distruction of Black family's back then. It was OK for the woman and children to have a man in the house as long as it was not the kids father.
It's just one thing or another in life, every thing the Government with the best of intentions puts in place seem to do more harm then good. The road to hell for others is the good intentions of others for what they believe is for their own good.
So I was careful around the people that were off base some how, tried to look out for their safety but there were times that they scared me to death, try to complain and find the idiots were related to a supervisor.
Such is life, wasn't easy 120 years ago to round up cattle with a drunk partner. People do what they do, making more laws will do nothing but to place more and more people into the Drug dealing, stealing and teaching their kids how to live hand to mouth, train them to disrespect all authority in order to survive.
