Flip it around. If you the business owner hire a bunch of people to work for you , and they lie about their behavior—but expect to be paid, does that not make you feel them to utterly disrespectful of you, and if so... do you actually keep them in your business?
People can not lie about it, if they are not asked about it. I know that sounds strange. But interesting enough here in Germany for example corporations are not "allowed" to ask you certain questions - like to women if they want to have children at some point. And if they ask you, you are allowed to "lie". Why? Because that's none of their fucking business. It's a personal question. Same when it comes to things you do in your OWN PRIVATE TIME(!). You have to adhere to the standard as it is outlined in your contract and job. You have to do the job how it is outlined. But outside of that? Who cares? They are paying you for those 8-9 hours of work. Not for being a perfect being 24 hours a day. You're not their slave. That obviously doesn't mean that you should do everything and everywhere. But there has to be a bit of a "wiggle" room when it comes to your private life.
But the whole point is, that it's none of "my" business what people do with their body in their free time - as long it does not impair the ability to do the work as it was agreed in the contract. I do not care if you're snorting cocaine, if you're playing russian rulette at the weekend with your self or what ever else you do. Because. It. Is. None. Of. My. Fucking. Business. I would be your/their employer. Not their mother. Not their family. Or even their friend. I pay them to do a job. Not to be their life coach. Can they do the job? Fine. Can they not? Beat it. The place where I work, with children, is very sensible. I have to actually bring good-conduct certificate, to prove that I am not a criminal or what ever. But outside of that? I never ever had to do a single drug test in my whole life. Which might have been a bit of a problem anyway, due to the fact that I have taken some drugs - prescribed by a doctor - a few times in my life. Mainly psychotropic drugs like benzodiazepine. But I do not know if they even show up in a piss-test. But it would really suck if I now had to explain my employer how that came to happen. Because. It's. None. Of. Their. Fucking. Business.
And I also do not know why the drug addiction, if it ever happens to come out, be a problem for the reputation. People are not so stupid to realise that the offender here is the person taking the drugs. They are adult beings. It is their responsibility. And theirs alone. And not the company. You can not screen for ALL eventuallities. Where would you stop anyway? Why not have regularly screening of people on all sorts of issues. Because they all can seriously hurt the reputation of a company. Sometimes even more than drugs.
Like if the bank accounts of their eimployees are always correctly set up, if they pay their mortages and bills in time, how, when and what they eat, because a healthy diet means less health related issues, which means people can work longer and more often while becoming less sick, also people should have to weight regularly on their job to avoid obessity. If you're overweight it means more health realted issues. Or how often they party is also important. You don't want people get wasted on sundays and coming to work tired. Imagine what that means for the reputation of the company.
The US society is obsessed with drugs and drug adiction for some reason. And also in making it always a "personal" issue. Yet there is very little if any talk about 1. The reasons behind drug adictions and 2. How to actually avoid it and improve the situation. The US society just loves to "blame" people. To punish people. But they hate to actually adress issues and actually talk about the problem. It's a hush-hush thing. No, no! We do not talk about why lil Timmy here took that heroin. We just kicked him out of the house and he's now also taking crack-cocaine in that meth-hole at the other end of town living with the meth heads. What a loser! We made him homeless because of the heroin addiction and what does he do instead?! Taking even harder stuff! May he burn in hell for his sins, Jesus give me strength!
But yes. Companies making "random" tests - which can also prove to often be false and are not very effective in general - are of course a good thing. Because they are not really regulated and often done under questoinable circumstances.
Subjective Readings
Errors also can occur because some types of tests require subjective interpretations, turning on questions such as the location, size and color of spots on a piece of laboratory plastic.
Finally, both critics and proponents agree, the tests are incapable of measuring actual impairment at the time a urine sample was given. The tests merely signal the presence of a drug, not the effect it is having on the user. In some cases, the traces of a drug consumed days earlier will still register on a test. Cocaine and heroin, for example, can be detected for as many as two days after use and marijuana for a month or more--long after any effects have worn off.
“There are some very real problems here with what is being asked of these tests and what they can deliver,” said UCLA psycho-pharmacologist Ronald Siegel. “The widespread testing and reliance on telltale traces of drugs in the urine is simply a panic reaction invoked because the normal techniques (of controlling drug use) haven’t worked very well. The next epidemic will be testing abuse.”
Drug Tests' Reliability Is Limited, Experts Say - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
Anyway. Enough of this useless rambling. This should be about shit posting. Not political shit posting.
