• eurodyne@piefed.world
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    9 hours ago

    I am 47, and I have never not once been tested for drugs for work.

    For most of my jobs, I’m relatively certain that drugs were in fact required.

    If anyone tried to test me for drugs, I would tell them to go fuck themselves, and I’d happily walk away from the interview.

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      I live in Germany, and over here unless your employer can present a damn good safety critical reason for why you must be sober at work (e.g. operating heavy machinery) it’s not even legal to randomly drug test employees.

      For your standard office job, or McDonalds cashier, or even high level office positions it would all be illegal for the employer to (randomly) drug test you.

      As long as you’re not operating dangerous machinery, it’s none of your employers business what you do off the clock at home, even if that’s consuming illegal drugs. They can (obviously) ban you from being high at work, but they would reasonable suspicion to accuse of you violating that, and potentially trigger a test (which means effectively the thing that is banned is for your performance at work to be impaired by drugs. If you work equally well high as sober, and don’t reek of weed when you walk in, you can pretty much just work high without risk of much consequences)

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        35 minutes ago

        All I know about Germany is that, aside from producing the world‘s most AWESOME gay porn, and having some extremely bizarre trash disposal laws, it is an confoundingly boring country.

        But it’s nice to know that, aside from the outrageously restrictive drug laws, they don’t do on the job drug testing.

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      48 minutes ago

      Im 46, and I’ve only had one job that didnt do a pre-employment drug test. But most of my jobs have involved machines that can hurt people if not handled right.

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        There are some jobs for which I can understand when it would be very important to ensure the operators of heavy equipment absolutely must be guaranteed to be sober at all times.

        Beyond heavy machine operators, this also includes livery drivers, airline pilots, etc.

        But those are specialty jobs for which my previous comments are excluded.

        Thank you for doing your job well, and soberly

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        6 hours ago

        How does that Nazi dick taste?

        Nobody fucking tells me when I can piss. I am the sole authority over my own bodily functions.

        It was a sad day because you and so many of your coworkers handed that over to any authority at all. You fucking cowards. You gave them the power to abuse you. then you had the temerity to come here and rationalize it.

        Classic victim behavior

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      Yeah, most restaurants dont test for drugs for a reason.

      On the flip side, I’ve had to take a drug test for every single job I’ve ever had. Most are sales related. But I travel for work so I kind of understand the need 10 years ago when everything was illegal. Now that weed is mostly legal everywhere its pointless to even test for it.

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        I work with a vulnerable population. In addition to every job doing piss testing my fingerprints and DNA get recorded and checked against unsolved assaults / murders. Nothing ever comes up but I always worry I’m gonna be like the last person that touched a vase before the dude that bashed somebody’s head in with it and the dude who did it isn’t in any databases and I’m gonna have to answer a bunch of intrusive questions.

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        Anytime I have worked for fintech I’ve been tested and fully background checked every time, pretty annoying but the trade off is the pay I suppose

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        8 hours ago

        If I wanna buy blow in whatever city I’m visiting, I always ask a bartender or a waiter for a hook up.

        It’s a rule I refer to as “industry standard”

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      I’m 36 and have been drugs tested once. They reckoned they’d seen me drop a gram of coke on camera so I got 6 weeks paid holiday.

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        I have been drug tested several times, and I am in fact “on drugs”. So, I get a call within a couple of days of getting tested to provide them with access to my pharmacy records to prove they are legally prescribed.
        So, wtf were they doing that you got 6 weeks?

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          Apparently it fell out of my pocket on a Monday morning (doubtful but I did head home for the weekend and blacked out a bit so possible…but I would have done the coke if that was the case 😂) got dragged into a meeting on Wednesday, pissed clean and just got told to go home until I heard otherwise.

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        8 hours ago

        Obviously, because nobody oopsie-daisies a gram of coke without going back to grab it, lol.

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          😂 I don’t live in the best area and my dog is an early morning boy, I’ve found 3 grams this month. Kinda feel sorry for whoever lost it but I’m also no longer a fan so hopefully that might help someone

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            48 minutes ago

            So… Where do you live? Please drop a pin on a map and reply only in a DM.

            I’ll drop by and bring snacks!