Drug testing welfare recipients: Discuss

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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?

Well, drinking is one thing, doing drugs is another. One is legal, the other is illegal. I personally would not take chances with hiring someone that was a habitual drug user.
If anyone is going to work for me, he or she must be clean. Some companies are not even okay with hiring smokers, let alone those who do drugs.

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.

Well, your boss does not dictate what you do in your personal time. But your boss can actually determine whether to hire someone who mingles with criminals(drug dealers) on a regular basis.

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.

As I said, I normally would not even expect a working man/woman to do such things. We don't have drug tests here, because we trust that a person who has an honest trade won't mingle with criminals such as drug dealers.