A couple of weeks ago, I started a new job. It's a national company, but not very prominent. Just a furniture company for the most part. Before I started, I had to take a drug test. No biggie. But if I didn't pass said drug test, I wouldn't have my current job.
Thats OK. I could still be a baseball player. I used to play, and if I trained hard for a few months, I'm sure I could land a job being Joe Torres bench coach. After all, the drug test isn't too important. I would just be suspended for a few games, if the players union didn't step in to alter the sentence on appeal. But I'd still be employed, so no big deal.
Thats the major problem I have with this so-called policy. Almost every job that I have had has required me to take a drug test, so I would have the privelege of making $10 per hour. If MLB wants to endear themselves to Joe Average, they need to seriously rework the current policy.
I believe any illegal drug, whether narcotics or steroids, gets you an automatic 1 year ban, with no pay. I'd like to think the contract can stay intact, that way, the team still gets the player when they get back from there hiatus. I think it's pretty fair.
I know I couldn't keep my job if I was busted 3 times for marijuana, much less 5.
Those are my thoughts and they belong to my brain.
1 comment:
Right about all that, but let me bring up something that has always bugged me about drug tests. I have had to take one before, and after I had started working at two other jobs, they instituted a drug testing policy. But. I really firmly believe that if they had asked a couple of bank managers or presidents to pee in a cup for the job, they would have told them where they could stick their little cup. Bottom line-- having to provide bodily fluids for someone to look at (aside from a doctor who is concerned about my health) is humiliating. Period. And usually, the ones who are forced to take them are the ones who aren't in any kind of position to stand up for the principal of the matter and possibly overlook a job for that reason-- thusly those of us who are grateful for the job to begin with.
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