Re: dad campaigns to stop school drug testing

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guido Marx) wrote:

> > 
> > There are a growing number of jobs that do drug testing when they hire 
> > you (including, for example, Target) and even more where you have to 
> > sign to agree to random drug testing if you want the job.
> > 
> > I hated it, but when it was a choice between feeding my kids and not, I 
> > signed the damned paper.  DH has had to pee in a cup for most of the 
> > jobs he's gotten since he got out of grad school -- and he's a PhD, so 
> > it isn't just the lower level jobs, either.
> 
> No - but the drug testing tends to the lower-level jobs.  Higher level
> jobs are usually with the government - or companies that do a lot of
> contracting with the government.  I've worked in the high-tech
> computer business for more than 20 years, and I've never had a job
> that required drug-testing.
> 
> Guido

That's interesting -- I was assuming it was common in high tech, because 
he keeps having to do it.  He doesn't work for companies with a lot of 
gov't contracts, since he prefers to avoid companies with a lot of 
defense contracts.  He's always had to take a pre-employment physical, 
and part of that physical is a drug test -- are you sure they haven't 
been sneaking one in on you?  <g>  (For all I know, he may only know 
because his company chooses to inform him -- is informing someone 
required by federal law?)  Might the fact that he works in the fab make 
a difference?

meh
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