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rolanddoe · 04-07-2007 11:31 AM

I've never worked for an employer who did either routine or random testing after the initial hire. In my experience you are only likely to be required to submit to a test as prerequisite to being hired.

After that there are two scenarios which could result in further testing.

If you suffer an on the job injury you can be tested to determine whether intoxication was a factor in the accident. This is done primarily for insurance company purposes. Obviously this means that if you had a couple of tokes two weeks previously your employer's carrier can weasel out of their obligation. (Another reason to nuke Hartford and rid our country of this pernicious leech industry.) As a result you can also end up either unemployed or facing mandatory testing in the future.

The other way you could face mandatory testing is by submitting to it voluntarily. If your employer finds that your on the job performance has become consistently substandard and still wishes to retain your services you might be offered the opportunity to benefit from a substance abuse abatement program which will require mandatory testing in order to determine compliance.

This is the reality where I have worked. In addition most employers could care less what your private lifestyle is so long as you show up regularly for work and do your job well.

Employers like you are describing, artie, (the 4/21 scenario) who are actively interested in controlling the private behavior of their employees, are probably likely to share the consequences their own pervasive selectiveness. They will have higher turnover and thusly less continuity. They may be forced to settle for less talented personnel capable of a lower level of efficiency simply because of their insistence upon imposing political conformity beyond the workplace.

Justice is served. The only reasonable condition to employment is job performance. Intelligent employers and workers understand this.

Wink wink....

Edited By rolanddoe on 1175980431

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