>Stand up for your rights! Refuse the test on constitutional grounds and
force >them to fire you! They have no righ to subject you to mandatory drug
testing.
Yadda yadda yadda.
What follows may brand me many things-communist, twenty-something cynic
[guilty! :) ], generation Xer, even *gasp* Republican-so the more combative
of you all may want to spare yourselves the apolexy and not read on.
First, it DOES seem silly that a drug-testing procedure be introduced into a
workplace where no incidents justifying the procedure have occurred.
However, in this ligitigous country of ours if something WERE to happen to a
member of the visiting public due to the altered state of a museum employee
that particualr institution would be ruined financially and publicly forEVER.
Closing the barn door after the cows (or however that little ditty goes) is
stupid. As we should know, prevention beats the best cure for anything.
Second, I cannot beLIEVE all of the blustering and posturing and cries of "my
rights! my rights!" and "they're violating me on the birthplace of ____ !"
etc etc. Oh, stop it. The foundations of freedom upon which this country
was founded belong in their historical context. Things change. And in order
to gain some freedoms you give up others. One may be you piss in a cup.
Whee, BIG DEAL. And if aren't doing drugs, it's a LITTLER deal. Now, if
you ARE doing drugs, private life or not, perhaps you shouldn't be in the job
you are. Lots of McDonald's are hiring.
I shouldn't have said that last thing up there, I'm sorry. I'm just amazed
that everyone is so HYPER about having to pee in a cup. So if it's falsely
positive, that's annoying but there are ways to assure yourself and
colleagues that it IS a false. Duh. There are just some things you have to
submit to, be it a breathalizer test on New Years Eve, having the feds tear
your car apart on the edge of the interstate because the car fits to
description of a drug dealer's, or taking a drug test, for the greater good
of everyone.
Am I missing something here?
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