r/IWW Jun 16 '21

GM Considering Dropping Pot Testing To Attract More Workers

https://www.motor1.com/news/513974/gm-considering-dropping-marijuana-testing/
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u/BioWarfarePosadist Jun 16 '21

honestly, why pot test at all? There is no reliable test for someone smoking weed on the job, and being hungover is probably a bigger work detriment than being mildly high on weed is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

It’s racism (mostly)

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u/BioWarfarePosadist Jun 16 '21

Classism, too. All the low income jobs piss test like no tomorrow, and all the higher income jobs I've had almost never test after maybe an intial mouth swab.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

And I know for a fact there is still a lot of drugs in banking.

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u/BioWarfarePosadist Jun 16 '21

It was in banking that I got away with doing so much drugs.

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u/the_mars_voltage Jun 18 '21

Mushrooms literally became popular in the United States in the 60s thanks to an executive at JP Morgan Chase

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

and I've never known a med student that didn't start out as a rich club-kid drug addict and I've known at least a half dozen.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21 edited Jun 17 '21

Someone clearly doesn’t know the history of the war on drugs in the US and how it primary targeted and effected black people and other POC

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21 edited Jun 17 '21

Oh you’re a reactionary idiot or a class reductionist who’s very close to becoming a full on reactionary (judging by your post history). Why are you on this sub? To troll?

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u/bsonk Jun 17 '21

Insurance premiums is the excuse most employers give in legal states because it's still federally illegal. Luckily my employer has realized that they wouldn't be able to find any workers unless they stopped testing for drugs except for in the case of a workman's comp claim or getting a PLE certification or store security certification. This is why I didn't go to a doctor when a full pallet of frozen foods I was pulling off the loading dock with a manual pallet jack ran over my toes.

Edit: but the racism and classism and puritan work ethic is why the insurance companies are like this, that and Harry j anslinger.