• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
    12 days

    America: big on winning wars.

    …Lost the war on terror to terror.

    …Lost the war on drugs to drugs.

    • Loaf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11 days

      To be fair, America initially lost the war on terror, then switched sides, so they’re technically winning.

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
    12 days

    We’ve had a sign posted at work saying “We are proud to be a drug-free workplace. All new and current employees are subject to drug testing at any time.”

    Not. Once. Not even when Jimmy came in to work each evening with the smell of weed wafting off of him. I could probably lay rails on my work table right in front of the security camera and hit one each hour and nothing would happen.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12 days

      Sure, but that’s not what the policies are for. If/when someone gets injured on the job the policy is standardly they require you to take a drug test then. If you fail you were breaking policy and the injury is deemed your fault, thus taking all responsibility of paying you workers comp off the table. Happens every day across the U.S. (that said I believe you can fight it, as you aren’t always automatically eliminated if you fail the drug test, you will have an up hill battle though)

      • turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish
        11 days

        I worked at a factory in the rural south the year (2022) they quietly did away with marijuana testing, even for spot violations. Turns out the standard reasoning, “the insurance company says,” doesn’t really matter… they didn’t care and allowed a 9-panel to be used in all testing matters.

        The unofficial reason I heard is, they go through the same workers on rotation, the good employees get hired back and forth. Drunks are chaotic, tweakers introduce drugs and are chaotic. Stoners are quiet and show up on time, and cause 0% of the fights, and tend to come with less of a rap sheet for terroristic threats and domestics.

        They almost tripped over themselves to look the other way on my stonership…

  • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
    11 days

    I am 47, and I have never not once been tested for drugs for work.

    For most of my jobs, I’m relatively certain that drugs were in fact required.

    If anyone tried to test me for drugs, I would tell them to go fuck themselves, and I’d happily walk away from the interview.

    • Devial@lemmy.world
      11 days

      I live in Germany, and over here unless your employer can present a damn good safety critical reason for why you must be sober at work (e.g. operating heavy machinery) it’s not even legal to randomly drug test employees.

      For your standard office job, or McDonalds cashier, or even high level office positions it would all be illegal for the employer to (randomly) drug test you.

      As long as you’re not operating dangerous machinery, it’s none of your employers business what you do off the clock at home, even if that’s consuming illegal drugs. They can (obviously) ban you from being high at work, but they would reasonable suspicion to accuse of you violating that, and potentially trigger a test (which means effectively the thing that is banned is for your performance at work to be impaired by drugs. If you work equally well high as sober, and don’t reek of weed when you walk in, you can pretty much just work high without risk of much consequences)

    • motoxjake@lemmy.zip
      11 days

      Yeah, most restaurants dont test for drugs for a reason.

      On the flip side, I’ve had to take a drug test for every single job I’ve ever had. Most are sales related. But I travel for work so I kind of understand the need 10 years ago when everything was illegal. Now that weed is mostly legal everywhere its pointless to even test for it.

      • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
        11 days

        Anytime I have worked for fintech I’ve been tested and fully background checked every time, pretty annoying but the trade off is the pay I suppose