Re: “One in three potential new-hire refuses or fails drug test”
The rock band Van Halen had a contract requirement that backstage at concerts there must be a large jar of M & M’s with all the candies of a specific color removed. I always thought this was some power play by the band, but I heard in an interview that it was a simple measure of the concert promoter’s attention to detail. The band felt that if a promoter could not even manage to achieve this simple, but curious, request, then more important aspects of the production like the electrical rigging might also be suspect.
That is how I view drug testing. If you can’t even pass a simple drug test how will you perform other more important details of a good job?
Lots of us have used and abused various substances, but some of us can get our act together when necessary, and others, unfortunately, can’t.
(Spell check is my personal attention-to-detail test).
