Posted on 05/19/2017 7:26:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nonsense - the legality of pot doesn't force anyone to use it, any more than the illegality of pot stopped many people from using it.
“Positive tests for the drug reached 2 percent last year, compared with 1.6 percent in 2012.”
So 98% of US workers tested are clean. That goes against the “American workers are scum” narrative being pushed in the article. No doubt the vast majority of those positives were for marijuana and not harder drugs.
We must remember that any article critical of US workers in a globalist publication like the WP is an attempt to bolster arguments for increasing immigration above the already very high levels we have now.
Well if they have any other problems they can stay the hell out of my life, they can hopefully find a compassionate snowflake friendly employer. The lines are drawn, no democrats as well.
Why should companies have to up the ante for normal people?
Dopers are dopes.
It actually takes more than a few hours to regain normal cognitive thinking, especially if a person dopes out regularly. If they dope out regularly for some time, they may never regain all brain/thought functioning.
The only false positive I’ve heard of - and close to someone who has had to do multiple drug tests for work etc - is eating poppyseed bagels can make a false positive for opiates.
Insurance requires drug testing for some positions like EMT and firefighters, for instance.
If an employer wants quality non drug using people to work for them then they will have to pay more or stop complaining. It is called supply and demand and it applies to labor also.
So over 95% of the people they send for tests come back clean.
But drug use is the reason they are having trouble hiring workers.
Uh-huh.
Perhaps they should pull the other one, it has bells on it.
Std? Explain please
They can regulate/ tax alcohol
Yeah, but it’s the law! And the get they a break on third insurance premiums.
I’m all for drug testing the congress, senate, and all their staffs! They should be held to the same standards they impose on us
“Why is it OK for a person to get drunk on his free time, but not to use marijuana? Not being stoned *at work* is the same as not showing up to work drunk.”
Because the employer doesn’t want to hire people who use marijuana in their free time, but doesn’t care about alcohol use in their free time.
Why is that not OK? You are free to use anything you want, and the employer is free to not hire you if you use whatever they deem is unacceptable to them.
It’s the part where you take personal responsibility for your decisions, and stop whining when someone else refuses to coddle you just because you choose something for yourself that they do not wish in their employees.
Cannabis tests are unfair. If the truck drivers are allowed to have a few beers the night before, they need to be allowed to vape a little weed. Alcohol leaves the body quickly and they don’t test drunk the next day. The cannabis test will show a + for months.
Maybe companies should realize that just because somebody gets high doesn’t mean they’ll be high on the job. Really how many of these HR people drink? And how many don’t drink on the job? People actually can moderate their own behavior.
I have a friend that vapes weed and she tested herself with those tests. She didn’t smoke and kept testing. It took over two months to stop testing positive. How is it fair? The worker is always to party with alcohol on the weekend but if he has one hit of pot, he can’t work? Crazy. The marijuana test is the only one that is patently unfair.
There should be a premium paid for drug free responsible workers. Unfortunately companies are unwilling to pay that premium. So they cry bitch and moan to WAPO instead.
No. It’s because alcohol burns out of the system quickly but the pot chemicals are stored in the fat and stay in your system much longer.
If I hire someone I have a right to know what’s in their system.
Of course then you run into the problem of how much is the job actually worth? You can’t pay somebody more than they add to the bottom line. That’s where it becomes a decision, what’s more important to you employees that can pass drug test or cheap warm bodies on the floor.
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