Why are teachers, cops, the president, congress, judges, city council members, mayors etc., not subjected to random drug tests?
But Johnny and Suzi stocking shelves at the local hardware store are?
Does anyone see a problem here?
Who could ever have suspected this might happen?
Gee, ya think?
Affirmative action for air traffic control is so wonderful
and in other news- Young worker injuries on the rise due to their eyelids being stapled shut as a result of a new fad going around
The Quality Director where I worked pulled out a printout of defects. The plant had an automated system that plotted them by the hour. I waved it at me and told me we had a quality problem and to go solve it. I said, “We don’t have a quality problem. We have a drug and alcohol problem.”
He said there was no drugs or alcohol involved. The morning break had just ended. I excused myself from the department meeting and went into the parking lot. I came back and showed him a couple of malt beer cans still frosty where they hadn’t been quite emptied yet. And a couple of “roaches” and some glassine bags with bits of white powder in them. He screamed, “Get that out of here!” I threw it in his trash can. He yelled, “Not in my trash!” So, I took them out and dumped them in a can on the production floor. This was a defense plant. But they’d stopped drug screening because it was racist. That’s on account of the screening had only found black people using. (Whites used too but weren’t so stupid about as to risk their jobs.) Back to the QA thing, I pointed out the failures occurred after each break and lunch and gradually eased off until the stoppage. So, yeah, drugs in the workplace are bad for profits.
Government created disaster , AGAIN
“ They note that prior research involving older workers did not show this effect. In fact, older workers’ injury rates typically decline after recreational weed is made legal in their state, perhaps because older folk are only using their marijuana to ease pain”
Hahahaha, no bias there.
Perhaps the older employees have job’s requiring more experience and could it not be them injuring the younger less experienced employees, forklift, cranes etc.?
“”recreational marijuana sales were associated with a 10% increase in workplace injuries among individuals aged 20 to 34 years,”
They were not associated.
They were coincidental.
Nobody proved any association whatsoever. Facts matter.
I wonder if there is a correlating increase in the rate of auto accidents similar to the work accident rate in this 20-34 age group?
When you’re injured at work, they test you ASAP. If anything shows up, you get no comp. It’s considered your fault.
The Peoples Republic of Minnesota legalized weed in an orgy of leftist legislation when the DFL (Democrat Farmer Labor Party …as socialist as it sounds) seized control of the legislature and the the leftist ideologue Governor Walz was re-elected in 2022. However, while weed use and personal cultivation was legalized, the Legislature failed to implement the regulatory structure nor address such questions as driving while impaired by pot. The haze you see over Minnesota might not all be from Canadian wildfires, but also from idiots smoking their reefer.