The scenario of indirection proposed (I didn't save the attribution)
for flushing out the drug dealers is just ducky. I can see it now:
"We had a drug problem, and put in mandatory testing -- six people
left, and we have no problem anymore." Anyone want to bet what
the inference will be, when those six interview for another job?
"You quit -Colonial Williamsburg- for a -principle-? Yeah, sure."
And if the interviewer is of Holly Trimper's mindset, "If you had
nothing to hide, why'd you quit?"
--bayla (the price of liberty is eternal vigilance -- and eternal
frustration [yes, I signed the loyalty oath: I needed the job.])
I was required to have an IVP, too, as a condition of employment,
after blood was found in my urine. Nobody cared that I was
menstruating when I gave the sample, and that as an allergy
sufferer I was liable to fatal consequences from the imaging
media. I needed the job *a lot*, so I had the IVP, with an
allergist on call in case I went into anaphalactic shock. This
in 1960: no drug testing involved, just a "routine physical" for a
job as teacher in the NY City school system. Repeat the urine
test? Oh, no, we wouldn't want to miss a possibly important
diagnosis, would we, bayla?
THIS ANECDOTE IS NOT MEANT TO SOLICIT SYMPATHY, BUT TO OFFER
A REAL-LIFE EXAMPLE OF THE ABUSE OF 'TRIVIAL'POWER.
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