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

submitted 1 year ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many of the drug tests don't check for drugs currently in your system. Many of them are akin to checking your liver levels to see if you've had alcohol at all in the past week.

Also, what a massive straw man.

[–] Saganaki@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure…but it’s not on him. Realistically, there’s:

The insurance company that has the restriction (required by law)
Lawmakers that make the law putting anyone under the influence responsible for any accidents, and by extension the company for letting it happen (if they knew)

I wouldn’t necessarily blame this guy, but our elected officials. If anyone’s to blame, it’s mostly Republicans (and Democrats in the early 90s) for pushing these laws so hard.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Okay, see, now this is the sort of nuance that I think is good for the discussion!