re: #381 Soap_Man

I don’t want to speak for the entire crowd that is speaking against drug testing, but I think most of us have said that it is okay in many situations. Like if there is a reasonable suspicion or if the job is sensitive or dangerous.

It’s the automatic drug testing that bugs me, being asked to turn over your piss without evidence you have actually done anything to arouse suspicion.

Sorry to butt in.

No problem with your clarification, thanks. Since alcohol or prescription drugs are not illegal substances there should be very little concern for invasion of privacy, since who really cares if someone has trace amounts of legal substances in their system?
The really difficult area is illegal drugs since an employee who shows up to work sober but with trace amounts of cocaine or marijuana in their blood would legitimately fear that the information could be used against them. On the other hand, how much sympathy should we have for the concerns of people who voluntarily choose to ingest illegal substances?