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.
This is what scares me the most - the quality issues, especially in professions where safety of the consumer is important. There are a lot of things I just don’t trust like I used to, and this goes back before legalizing marjuana. It’s a lack of responsibility all around.
Unpossible. Never heard of this. Marijuana is good because of excessive stress not having it at lunch break...