I disagree entirely. If someone has a problem with drugs (including alcohol,
a legal drug), it comes out in his/her job performance. It is not necessary
to punish the entire staff in order to ferret out these individuals. If our
museum tried to subject us to this indignity, we would not stand for it.




Sarah Taft
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Berg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 11:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Drug testing


I understand that there is quite a lot of talk about drug testing for
employees.  I would like to add my comment to this forum...

DRUGS ARE ILLEGAL.  If you are not a law abiding citizen, do you not
believe that an employer has the right to know?  Do you not understand that
drugs can have make a major impact on the productivity of ones work?

Furthermore, if one is a drug user, and can not lay off the drugs long
enough to take a test for an upcoming position for employment, this may be
an indication that there is an even greater problem, the person may be an
addict, hence a downfall of problems would then follow.

Yes, we all have our right to privacy, however, you are hired by a company
to be productive and mentally capable of handling the position offered.  If
you can not even stay off drugs long enough to clean out your system to
take a stupid drug test, you obviously are not the type of person that an
employer looks for.  Is it fair to have them hire you without a drug test,
and then find out 2 weeks later that you are a junkie who is not capable of
performing the duties expected of them?

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