Re: Drug testing

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

What other crimes would you let yourself be investigated for when there 
was no evidence to suggest you had committed them?  Can your employer 
come to your house and look around for stolen goods, pornography, 
illegal aliens?  Would you mind if they decided to question your 
acquaintances to ask if you assault your wife/girlfriend?  What if they 
decided to put a device on your car that recorded your driving habits 
and they could tell if you had been speeding?  Again, I have no problem 
with conditions of employment that prohibit illegal activity, but I do 
think that it is a violation to coerce an employee into providing 
physical evidence for speculative investigation.

Jim

>From: Shawn Roth <ufpdev!shawnr@uunet.uu.net>
>Subject: Re: Drug testing
>To: jim_meninno@hotmail.com (Jim Meninno)
>Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:12:10 -0500 (EDT)
>Cc: celtics@igtc.com
>
>I do not consider this to be a violation. I am just abiding by company 
policy.
>If I don't like it I can work somewhere else.  Sooner or later, one 
side or the
>other would have to give in.  Either my current employer won't have 
enough
>employee to continue in business, or employees won't mind random drug 
tests to
>remain employed here.  There are always choices.
>
>Originally from Jim Meninno:
>> 
>> I don't really have a problem with this, probably because I don't 
>> consider the desk/computer/telephone I use while at work to be my 
own.  
>> I think it is a very long stretch from that to drug testing.  I hope 
>> some people reply to my question.  I would be very interested to know 
>> how many others have had to endure the violations that you have.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> >From: Shawn Roth <ufpdev!shawnr@uunet.uu.net>
>> >Subject: Re: Drug testing
>> >To: jim_meninno@hotmail.com (Jim Meninno)
>> >Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:24:07 -0500 (EDT)
>> >Cc: celtics@igtc.com
>> >
>> >Jim,
>> >
>> >   One last thing.  It has also been found, much to your suprise I'm 
>> sure, that
>> >   anything you leave at work, either in your desk or on your 
>> PC(including
>> >   E-mails after 90 days), can be legally searched without your 
consent 
>> or
>> >   knowledge.  So I'm sure that random drug testing really isn't a 
>> stretch.
>> >   Remember, big brother is always watching.....
>> >
>> >Shawn
>> >   
>> >  
>> 
>> 
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