[mad puppy]

I'm just a S/W engineer and I've had to take drug tests prior to employment several times. When I worked for a DOD contractor they made it clear that they can and would test me if I did anything to cause them to notice me.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Me too. Since joing the Marine Corps at 17 (31 years ago), and getting a Secret Clearance, I’ve spent a lot of time with plastic cups.

Here’s one: I was working a job in Portland, Maine-after it ended I stayed there and looked for a job-got one w/ a DOD contractor—in Pennsylvania. Cool.

I had to take a drug test first. Fine—except the co. only went through a certain lab company -and just prior to then, the labs in the states of Maine,NH,Vermont, and Mass. went belly up or lost certification.

Long story short, the closest ones were in Albany NY, or Connecticut. I drove down to CT. (220 miles)one evening, checked into a motel, spent the night, got up and had breakfast, went to the lab, did my thing, drove back, and got a call a few days later that I was good to go.

So, while I’m concerned about privacy and slippery slopes, I have little sympathy for these slugs, most of whom have few enough brain cells to spare without killing the ones they do have....

[Leisler]

Code Toading Under The Influence.