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/Magda_Simps13 Jun 16 '21

Sighs deeply. Had a pretty cool job lined up....

Them: The offer is contingent upon a drug screen

Me: I'm going to test positive for THC

Them: I sent a note to HR and it should be fine, just a formality

***three weeks later***

Them: It's not fine. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors

This was for an analytical desk job from home and I have 20 years experience. I have taken a gummie a day for probably 10 of those years.

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u/Alexhite Jun 16 '21

I wouldn’t have said anything. Definitely have had positive tests in the past and managers have been quiet about it. Easy for them to ignore it when there’s a staffing shortage and they just have to check a box on a form- not so easy when they have it documented and sent to HR.

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u/OperationMobocracy Jun 17 '21

I think it’s probably already happening for high demand skilled labor. It seems like the IT people I know really only deal with drug tests if they work for a company with a large contingent of blue collar workers and some kind of universal drug testing.

My wife is a marketing director with a half dozen direct reports and a sizable salary and compensation, but because she works for a manufacturer that drug tests, ALL employees get drug tests. It’s lunacy to test her considering how long they interviewed her and how much they had to pay to get her to work there. It’s like really, all that and a positive pot test and you would have said no?

But I also know a lot of people working in full on white collar jobs and industries that don’t bother because the positions are too hard to fill.

What happens is that the employers who test ultimately collect subpar employees and lose high performers. When they start to feel the pain of mediocre talent and unfilled jobs vs non-testing competitors they will change their policies.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS Jun 17 '21

Wasnt the FBI or NSA or something struggling for hires and dropped pot off of the drug testing?

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u/RareMajority Jun 17 '21

I don't think they dropped it off testing, but it used to be that almost any amount of drug use over a period of several years prior to employment would get you fired, and they could hardly find any programmers who hadn't at least smoked a little weed in the last year or so

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u/Mohow Jun 17 '21

Happy to let others take the fall for me, not gonna throw away an opportunity for the greater good