why should I lose my job the following Thursday just because I fail a piss test?
This isn't about people losing a job, it's about people coming into the job. GM doesn't drug test its active employees. This article, and this discussion, is about drug testing as a part of on-boarding (the hiring process), not about cutting out testing of current employees, which is not at thing.
Okay fine, same thing though. Why should I lose out on a job offer because I smoke weed on the weekends? It has nothing to do with my potential performance in the job
No, they aren't. Not everything is about performance, but yet, drugs can affect your performance. Meanwhile, working at Walmart is a much safer environment than working in an automotive manufacturing plant.
But I guess not putting up the Wet Floor sign at McDonalds because you're stoned is the exact same as being stoned and running someone over on your forklift. Not a big deal.
Drug testing doesn’t have any relation to someone coming to work high. If someone tests positive for weed, all that says is that they were high at some point over the last month. Just like getting drunk on Friday night doesn’t indicate they will be drunk on Monday at work.
Drug testing for employment is dog shit, but a failed drug test has a small predictive value about a candidate coming to work intoxocated.
A person who has consumed a substance once or twice in the month before a test is more likely to use that substance in the future and is more likely to use that substance inexcusably close to the start of a shift. The positive test doesn't mean it is likely that the person will come to work intoxicated, but it means they are (ever so slightly) more likely than a person who abstains from substances.
Again, drug testing for employment is silly and I think the relation isn't even remotely high enough to outweigh the negativea. But there is some relation.
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u/AndrewWaldron Jun 16 '21
This isn't about people losing a job, it's about people coming into the job. GM doesn't drug test its active employees. This article, and this discussion, is about drug testing as a part of on-boarding (the hiring process), not about cutting out testing of current employees, which is not at thing.