USPS to reinstate pre-employment drug tests

[FirstclassPITA]

To each their own. You could be a raging alchy and that is a okay but the big bad Marijuana?! Straight to the gulag lol. Personally know people who smoke and are better employees than some of their straight edged brethren. It is personal predisposition that determines the quality of work more so than the intoxicants one chooses to partake in. Initial drug screenings are one thing. Prove that you want the job by not smoking for a month. It isn't hard to do. Randomized testing is control. People cry about having to answer your cell phone because they don't pay for it but pissing in a cup to prove to someone you aren't doing something they disapprove of in your own time? Can't wait to sign that list eh?

 

[DB.Cooper]

I guess it's different times and circumstances nowadays... back in the day, I saw pretty good RCAs let go for next to no good reason... and nowadays the PO is happy to just get a warm breathing body... I always think of that as my mail is usually late or doesn't match what informed delivery says, etc., etc... sorta like when I go to the drive thru window at a fast food place... I always say to my wife, I'm glad I don't have to do that job, and I guess you really can't get the best people for those type wages... sadly, that's about where the USPS has fallen to...

 

[RammerJammer]

I saw a guy talking to the judge in court trying to defend his DUI by saying the reason he blew like a .187 was not due to the 40 that he consumed while waiting at the drive-thru at Taco H€ll when a cop showed up but from partying the night before in his own home. He pleaded “your Honor, you know that alcohol stays in your blood up to 24 hrs later”. The look on the judge’s face was priceless.

 

[DB.Cooper]

The only 1st hand example I can recall is that we had a Meth head in my office for a period of time... so I guess it happens...

 

[Augsburg]

The 2nd hand smoke while delivering is crazy.

I have some concerns considering there’s quiiiiiiite a few states that have legalized cannabis.

 

[RammerJammer]

I’m a fan of the Highwaymen and I don’t think they’d have been the same without it but they had their own bus drivers. I sure think to helped Willie’s creativity to write a lot of great songs.

 

[stingrayiii]

 

[DB.Cooper]

I never drank on the job, but doing so would have been so easy... And on some of those really hot days out delivering the mail, I'll admit more than once I thought, man, an icy cold beer would taste mighty fine about now...

 

[Surprise!]

I get the impression that Management is trying to smear craft employees.

How does management not know an employee has not been working for the first four hours of the day? Are their craft employees in a position to do this? If this person works on the floor or in delivery he could easily get some one killed.

 

[RammerJammer]

That guy looked liked he was about to put that reporter in a headlock before he really considered it being on camera. This was back in ‘93 before cell phone cameras became prevalent and people used to be really ignorant about doing something they might regret. I wonder if he kept his job after it was aired on the nightly news. The one that didn’t look like he knew which direction to walk was probably the plant manager.

 

[DB.Cooper]

That guy looked liked he was about to put that reporter in a headlock before he really considered it being on camera. This was back in ‘93 before cell phone cameras became prevalent and people used to be really ignorant about doing something they might regret. I wonder if he kept his job after it was aired on the nightly news. The one that didn’t look like he knew which direction to walk was probably the plant manager.

I guess this isn't new then as that was over 30 years ago... I worked with a carrier in the 1990's that had been sent to dry dock 2 or 3 times, basically they'd send them to some sort of inpatient sobering up deal, I guess thru EAP or something like that .. they ended up making him a supervisor, supposedly so he could go drink with the PM, who also liked to drink, at lunch....the city carriers always stopped by local bars to waste time to get their 8, this was before the age of scammers...