Drug testing welfare recipients: Discuss

[Clueless Morgan]

Nobody should be peeing in cups. It's just as wrong that you have to do it as it is anybody else.

I worked at an international manufacturing corporation and steel foundry as a part time job in college that drug tested me twice a year for a job where I sat at a desk doing next-to-meaningless data entry, ordered office supplies and maintained the department library. I totally understand drug testing at companies like this - for the manufacturing positions out in the foundry - but for an office job any bum off the street would have excelled at?

Well, I think that employers do have the right to what kind of a person they want to hire. I personally would not want to hire anyone that uses drugs. Is that not my right? For that purpose, if I require that employers take a drug test, what evil is there?

Would you fire someone you knew got drunk off their ass every weekend if they still showed up sober and ready to work on Monday?

I agree that the boss gets to decide who they hire and what kind of person they want working for them. But at what point does your boss get to dictate what you do in your personal time when what you do in your personal time doesn't affect your job performance? And if their personal time exploits do begin to affect their job performance, that person should face disciplinary action, be it firing or whatever the boss deems appropriate.[/quote]

I'm okay with initial (at the time of hiring) drug testing and random drug testing for people who work in manufacturing positions or positions where you work with heavy machinery because there are serious consequences if someone shows up to work drunk or high and jumps behind the wheel of a dump truck or is the guy in charge of the ladle full of molten steel dangling over your head, or is operating a crane or whatever.