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Subject:RE: Ethics and Job-Hunting From:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:46:40 -0600
The only job I've had in the last 10 years that did not require a pee-pee test before starting was as a retail inventory auditor. Not surprisingly, that company was full of druggies, and when I was a team leader there I had to actually get one fired for it (well, actually for stealing Valium from a pharmacy we were counting and then driving a company van under the influence of 6 or 7 of them the next day).
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From: Brian Baresch [mailto:baresch -at- earthlink -dot- net]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:40 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Ethics and Job-Hunting
I do have another filter that I haven't seen mentioned: I'd have to be
desperate to take a job that requires a drug test for other than safety
reasons (e.g. operating heavy equipment). That aversion to unwarranted
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