Twentypointfive
Greenlighter
Hello everyone,
I am curious of everyone's view on drug testing in the work place. The obvious answer is probably "no". I am interested in more of an unbiased educated approach.
I feel drug testing should be allowed but how it is done right now is discriminatory against drug users. That may come across as stupid and obvious but here me out. I feel a company should have the right to drug test an employee but not like it is today. I feel an employee should not use drugs on a company's time. Not to say I haven't had my fair share at work. However, my unbiased opinion, If you are on the clock you shouldn't be using drugs. It effects performance and can be hazardous to other people which in turn can increase insurance premiums. Drug testing should be done in a way where employers can determine if an employee is currently on drugs at work. But what a person does in their own time is their own business. Current drug testing is very intrusive and discrimanatory. Since drugs have such a negative stigma, the government and society has permitted companies to grossly over step its bounderies and terminate thousands of american employees based on drugs being present in their system regardless of being high at work or maybe just being intoxicated at home during their own time on the weekend. Corperations in a broad sense have way too much power and influence in todays society (imo because of money and government lobbying influence). An example of corperations over stepping boundries: You hear public figures loosing their jobs for speaking their opinion on facebook or twitter meanwhile the 1st amendment should protect someone to say whatever they pretty much want without serious repercussion. For some reason we approve when a company fires someone in order to protect their corperate image. In fact, we get excited and fuel the fire on social media... Praising said company for removing this "social tyrant" like a good ole fashioned witch hunt. This to me is way out of line and completely ass backwards. America i figured would want freedom and as little industry/government regulation in the workplace as possible. Work and private life should be treated seperately... Whatever it may be (drugs, speech, etc).
Your thoughts please,
Twentypointfive
I am curious of everyone's view on drug testing in the work place. The obvious answer is probably "no". I am interested in more of an unbiased educated approach.
I feel drug testing should be allowed but how it is done right now is discriminatory against drug users. That may come across as stupid and obvious but here me out. I feel a company should have the right to drug test an employee but not like it is today. I feel an employee should not use drugs on a company's time. Not to say I haven't had my fair share at work. However, my unbiased opinion, If you are on the clock you shouldn't be using drugs. It effects performance and can be hazardous to other people which in turn can increase insurance premiums. Drug testing should be done in a way where employers can determine if an employee is currently on drugs at work. But what a person does in their own time is their own business. Current drug testing is very intrusive and discrimanatory. Since drugs have such a negative stigma, the government and society has permitted companies to grossly over step its bounderies and terminate thousands of american employees based on drugs being present in their system regardless of being high at work or maybe just being intoxicated at home during their own time on the weekend. Corperations in a broad sense have way too much power and influence in todays society (imo because of money and government lobbying influence). An example of corperations over stepping boundries: You hear public figures loosing their jobs for speaking their opinion on facebook or twitter meanwhile the 1st amendment should protect someone to say whatever they pretty much want without serious repercussion. For some reason we approve when a company fires someone in order to protect their corperate image. In fact, we get excited and fuel the fire on social media... Praising said company for removing this "social tyrant" like a good ole fashioned witch hunt. This to me is way out of line and completely ass backwards. America i figured would want freedom and as little industry/government regulation in the workplace as possible. Work and private life should be treated seperately... Whatever it may be (drugs, speech, etc).
Your thoughts please,
Twentypointfive
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