Post by AbsolutMetal on Jan 13, 2006 14:02:29 GMT -5
So I've been looking for a new job for about 3 months now, and I've gotten ONE INTERVIEW so far, which has been just a tad frustrating. Seems somehow CVS got ahold of my resume', someone passed it onto them I guess. They've called me twice over the 2 months, first time went well, they offered me $12/hour to sit and answer technical support phone calls...which I figured I could stand for a few months. I asked if it was possible to get Tuesdays off (band practice), and they didn't call back for a month. 2nd call they left a message, I called back...no response until today. They call, say I can get Tuesdays off, and everything sounds all good...I'm all excited, maybe I'll be able to pay my rent now...but no, she mentions there's a pre-employment drug test.
WTF? There goes that job. It's not that I don't think I'd pass a drug test, nothing to do with that, (I passed down a job like this 5-6 years ago when I only smoked pot once every 3 months), it's that a drug test is fucking invading my privacy and spitting in the face of my consitutional rights. Sorry people, but CVS has no right whatsoever to know what anyone does in their spare time. I'm not peeing in a cup for any corporation. CVS has no right to know what's in my body, and the fact that they'd want to know speaks volumes of how much they must trust their employees. Alcoholism and lack of sleep account for majority of workplace production loss and accidents...and neither of those show up in a piss test. You could do a line of coke before you go to work, take a drug test a few hours later and come out clean, and don't even get me going on the rate of false positives. Fuck any company that uses drug testing.
FOURTH AMENDMENT [U.S. Constitution] - 'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.'
WTF? There goes that job. It's not that I don't think I'd pass a drug test, nothing to do with that, (I passed down a job like this 5-6 years ago when I only smoked pot once every 3 months), it's that a drug test is fucking invading my privacy and spitting in the face of my consitutional rights. Sorry people, but CVS has no right whatsoever to know what anyone does in their spare time. I'm not peeing in a cup for any corporation. CVS has no right to know what's in my body, and the fact that they'd want to know speaks volumes of how much they must trust their employees. Alcoholism and lack of sleep account for majority of workplace production loss and accidents...and neither of those show up in a piss test. You could do a line of coke before you go to work, take a drug test a few hours later and come out clean, and don't even get me going on the rate of false positives. Fuck any company that uses drug testing.
FOURTH AMENDMENT [U.S. Constitution] - 'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.'
