Re: dad campaigns to stop school drug testing

dragonlady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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

Hardware companies tend more toward testing.  For the past few years
I've also worked for smaller companies.  I know that Intel tests their
employees - since I have several friends who work for them.  It also
may depend a lot on where you live.  In the Bay Area, there are a lot
of firms that don't test - so employees have options if they don't
wish to submit to a drug-test.  Of course - the current employment
situation is such that this doesn't mean much at the present

I'm certain that they're not sneaking a drug test in on me.  I DID
have one employer that required a pre-employment physical - but that
was because one of the benefits they provided was a very nice
disability insurance policy.  The physical was for the insurance
company - and the documents I signed for that specifically said that
none of the results of any of the blood or urine tests (or any other
test for that matter) could be released to my employer without my
prior written consent.

At a small company, I don't think testing is viable for practical
reasons.  Everyone knows each other and works together closely - drug
testing would just be silly.  If anyone we were working with HAD a
drug problem - it would be readily apparent to everyone else.

Guido