RE: the OTHER test

[BMcClain -at- centura -dot- com]

It's probably at least as on-topic as the ingredients of peanut cans, I
suppose. :o)

I've never refused a test -- but once I was required to also sign an
affidavit that I understood the company's policy regarding the drug test.  I
thought this was rear-end-covering legal overkill, and I added a signed
statement of intent to hold the company as well as the lab liable in the
event of a false positive.  (Actually, I wound up bailing out of taking the
job anyway.)


Bill McClain
("Writers are always selling somebody out."  - Joan Didion)


-----Original Message-----
From: Brent -dot- Jones -at- Level3 -dot- com [mailto:Brent -dot- Jones -at- Level3 -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:31 PM
To: BMcClain -at- centura -dot- com
Subject: RE: the OTHER test


> Brent...why ask this on a list devoted to 
> technical-communication issues?

because, as i said in the post, it is a factor in the employment process
that more and more technical writing professionals are being forced to
address as they search for and accept employment. as such, it seems to me to
be at least as relevant as discussions about how to structure an employment
contract, W-2 versus 1099 tax status, resume layout, writing samples at
interviews, etc. 

all of these things are only marginally related to technical writing per se,
but are of interest to technical writers as *professionals*. the list
frequently, and i think appropriately, addresses issues of interest to
technical writers as professionals. this is one of them.

i suspect your question was rhetorical, and intended more as an admonition
than a query, but i hope i've answered it nonetheless. if the question is
off topic, or if the ensuing discussion becomes so, i'm sure Eric will quash
it handily enough, certainly with no hard feelings on my part.

cheers,
brent

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Brent Jones
brent -dot- jones -at- level3 -dot- com