I went in for a drug test for my new job, and they cut my hair. Two big chunks of it, from the root. Supposedly it's not noticeable, but it was quite a lot of hair
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Oh, I know. And I know it's not like drug testing is uncommon--I guess I just thought it was always a matter of peeing in a cup or something? Which I suppose is invasive in another way.
I mean, I know it's not like cutting off a bit of your hair actually hurts you--it's just the taking of part of you, even a tiny symbolic amount, that gets me. All to be sure you're not doing drugs.
I dunno, I guess I just wish we worked in a culture where we assumed the best about people until we had reason to suspect otherwise, and where a worker's person was not seen as open to assaults (even just symbolic ones) by her employer. Which I know is going overboard with the rhetoric. I know you were posting sort of tongue-in-cheek humorous. It's late, what can I say!
I'm still glad you have the job and still eager for ANYthing you tell me about it.
I've been drug tested before - it was some sort of saliva test. They made me put something between my gum and cheek for a few minutes - it was salty tasting.
Frankly, I'm used to my employers doing things that are invasive, usually minimally invasive. They could fire me for something I post online, something that has nothing to do with work. They can set rules about how long my hair is or what color I can dye it or how many piercings I can have or whether I have a visible tattoo. You don't really have bodily autonomy when you're a wage slave. When I lived in Tennessee, I could have been fired for being gay. Them's the breaks.
When places like Target have started drug testing, the country has gone off its fucking rocker.
Editing to clarify that what I mean is that we've gone overboard with this stuff. There are certain circumstances where drug testing is understandable (say, a hospital), but others are just a waste of everybody's time. (Though now that I think about it, Target does have a pharmacy chain at this point, so it may be a legal requirement.)
Well, I am working for a casino ... I don't really see how smoking a little weed would affect my ability to work there, though. My housemate told me that for some positions, they stopped testing people for marijuana because otherwise there wouldn't be enough candidates to hire.
Seriously, I think I'd kill someone if they tried to do that to me. What happened to the good old-fashioned piss-in-a-cup? As much as I hate trying to pee in a cup (my aim is lousy), I'd take that over someone shaving my head (despite having the desire to shave my own head on occasion, I'm the only one who is actually allowed to do that to my hair).
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I mean, I know it's not like cutting off a bit of your hair actually hurts you--it's just the taking of part of you, even a tiny symbolic amount, that gets me. All to be sure you're not doing drugs.
I dunno, I guess I just wish we worked in a culture where we assumed the best about people until we had reason to suspect otherwise, and where a worker's person was not seen as open to assaults (even just symbolic ones) by her employer. Which I know is going overboard with the rhetoric. I know you were posting sort of tongue-in-cheek humorous. It's late, what can I say!
I'm still glad you have the job and still eager for ANYthing you tell me about it.
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Frankly, I'm used to my employers doing things that are invasive, usually minimally invasive. They could fire me for something I post online, something that has nothing to do with work. They can set rules about how long my hair is or what color I can dye it or how many piercings I can have or whether I have a visible tattoo. You don't really have bodily autonomy when you're a wage slave. When I lived in Tennessee, I could have been fired for being gay. Them's the breaks.
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Editing to clarify that what I mean is that we've gone overboard with this stuff. There are certain circumstances where drug testing is understandable (say, a hospital), but others are just a waste of everybody's time. (Though now that I think about it, Target does have a pharmacy chain at this point, so it may be a legal requirement.)
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I probably would have, mind you. Just strongly considered. :p
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Seriously, I think I'd kill someone if they tried to do that to me. What happened to the good old-fashioned piss-in-a-cup? As much as I hate trying to pee in a cup (my aim is lousy), I'd take that over someone shaving my head (despite having the desire to shave my own head on occasion, I'm the only one who is actually allowed to do that to my hair).
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