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The fact that drug tests are normalized for jobs is fucking insane (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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and no one irl even has the decency to agree with me because it's so fucking drilled into the culture that these fucking BuNsInNesSes have a Right to do this because it's a bSUsniEss. like oh yeah they have an office building so they definitely get to analyze my piss because they say they want to. sick fucking freaks.

preaching to the choir a bit on lemmy (or i would hope so at least) but still

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, América really is crazy. I wouldn't accept such tests and I've never even tried drugs.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends what your job was. If you're my 747 pilot I would be outraged if you refused a drugs test when asked.

There's a time and a place for regulated drugs tests.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Here is one guy who should've been drug tested before doing any work. "Several of his friends recalled him going to work after a night of doing drugs, with one of them saying he would never allow Duntsch to operate on him."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Duntsch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Holy shit as if I needed another reason to never go to a hospital in Texas. What a read

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The best (worst?) quote was the doctor who said that Duntsch acted in one surgery as if he was deliberately trying to do the opposite of everything you are supposed to. That made him think it was deliberate and not just being "out of it" or incompetent.