Re:U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
by caconym_ on Friday January 03, 2020 @06:07PM
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This is sort of missing the point.
If my employer wants to make my employment contingent on not entertaining subversive thoughts, they'll have a heck of a time doing it today. Maybe they can e.g. devise some questionnaire or half-assed Voight-Kampff-style test that appeals to upper-middle-manager types with its high price tag and euphemistic-authoritarian marketing verbiage, but one has to imagine it would be fairly easy to fool.
So from a certain perspective, it's not really worth worrying about. But then, when they figure out how to really make it work, we're already living in a society where the theoretical concept of it is completely mainstream and acceptable, and at that point what will stop it from becoming the new status quo?
You can just not consume nicotine for a couple weeks and then go take your test. If you're using harder drugs like meth or heroin, you don't need to wait nearly as long. Using someone else's urine is also easy, but this is a crime in many states.
Is UHaul really going to hair + blood + urine test each employee not only before hiring, but randomly throughout employment? That gets expensive fast.
Ultimately the whole thing is silly. Show up, do your work well, and leave. Simple as that. (Yes, dangerous jobs like pilots and ambulance drivers should probably be randomly tested during work hours to ensure common-sense responsibility.)