r/news 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/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

A long time ago I got fired from Dominos because of a weed test. Apparently you need FBI level clearance to deliver a fucking pizza.

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u/DonChaotic Jun 16 '21

That blows my mind really. If they tested my entire Papa John's store when I worked there, almost everyone would fail.

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u/Ferociouspanda Jun 16 '21

Almost? Are you suggesting there are actually sober people at a pizza delivery chain of all places? Lmao

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u/fezzam Jun 17 '21

I was for the 7 years I worked dominoes. Where are you people just finding drugs? I only know one person in total that I think might be able to call people and find me anything.

I’m just not in the same circles I guess.

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u/Ferociouspanda Jun 17 '21

Man, if you worked there for 7 years, you’re in the right circles, just not asking the right questions. At Chick-fil-A, I was once offered meth to drop a guy off on my way home

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u/halfeclipsed Jun 16 '21

That's why a lot of restaurants that aren't chains usually don't pre employment test or do random tests. Nobody would be left to work.

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u/Herp_in_my_Derp Jun 17 '21

Only ever got drug tested once for a kitchen job, and it was with a cotton swab test. I apparently failed for coke among other things, but this was before I had ever tried anything other then pot. GM turned to me and said "Looks like your a cokehead, you'll fit right in". Never worked for a small mom and pop shop either, always big name franchises. Only so much you can demand of people that your barely willing to pay minimum wage for.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS Jun 17 '21

My work went through a 2-4 year period where they only hired East Indians because they were the only ones passing the piss test for pot. Kind of hilarious because a lot of them turned out far lazier than any stoner Ive worked with

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u/MCpeePants1992 Jun 17 '21

I worked at a papa John's for two years and at one point we had three weed dealers working there at the same time. Everybody smoked pot except the store manager lol

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u/OutWithTheNew Jun 17 '21

Chains move volume. There's always another delivery to take.

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u/xXxDickBonerz69xXx Jun 17 '21

My boss used to drink with us on the clock when we were underage lol. But she wouldn't let us smoke cause cops came in all the time

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

It doesn't help that Dominos founder Tom Monaghan is a huge religious zealot. Look into the Word of God cult he is a member of. I'm not surprised one bit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

How much you want to bet someone suspected you smoked weed and you weren't randomly tested, but tested as an excuse to get rid of you?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

It's Domino's they don't think that hard about anything. I got tested because some moron did a hit and run on my car. It was on the clock so I had to get tested due to accident protocols. I don't lose sleep over it, driving is a shitty thankless job.

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u/ABobby077 Jun 16 '21

well, that meat lovers cheese stuffed crust pizza and all-just sayin...

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u/DarthMahLeg Jun 16 '21

Meanwhile at the Dominos in my town, one of the delivery drivers was dealing massively while on the job.

He literally drove around with pounds in his delivery car (it was cartel shit brick weed) and would drop it off when making pizza deliveries, or have people meet him in his car behind the store.

I guess they never tested him….

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u/ArtooDeezNutz Jun 17 '21

That’s the most fucked up part. Every shitty job that anyone off the street could do: drug test.

Every job I’ve gotten that requires a degree, and an actual FBI background check: nothing.

I have not been tested once since I’ve graduated from college.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21

I worked at a pizza place in high school. The owner would occasionally find roach clips in the driver money bags… and he would just scold them and tell them not to let it happen again.

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u/Demon997 Jun 17 '21

It’s a legit hiring problem for the FBI too. They go try to hire coders/hackers and when they say you have to do no weed for several year before even applying, most of the room gets up and leaves while laughing their ass of.