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>Often, companies that require drug tests of writers and other
>professionals
>do so because they produce something that incorporates usage of machinery,
>something high risk, or something produced for the federal government.
In my former field, newspaper writing/editing, sometime around 1990 it
became impossible to get hired into a newsroom without handing over a cup
of pee. That's part of the reason I went freelance -- I was unhappy with my
employer at the time, for other reasons, and couldn't get on anyplace else
because I wouldn't submit to the test. (I only got that job without peeing
in a cup by accident -- I was hired as a part-timer, and a year later when
I went full-time they didn't ask for the test since I was already there.)
I've been told that the tests have something to do with group insurance --
the company's rates are lower if they weed out the weed freaks. Don't know
if that's really it or not. I do know that I avoided going into Office
Despot for a long time because I once saw a sign by their door proudly
announcing that all their employees had had to had over their urine.
Brian Baresch, baresch -at- earthlink -dot- net
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Editing, writing, proofreading
Nothing can be made idiot proof because God is constantly revising the
latest model of idiot. --John Gilger
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