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The Journal reported executives at SpaceX worried Elon Musk was on drugs after an "unhinged" all-hands meeting in which he slurred and rambled.

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 81 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Drug tests are just to keep their boots on the faces of the workers. It's disgusting and invasive.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because there are no instances in history where forcing drug use had been weaponized at the international level. Man, sometimes it's so easy to see how lemmy is close to the same dark web that spams drug adverts on matrix.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're seriously suggesting that drug tests are designed to protect employees from employers forcing them to do drugs? That's ridiculous.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

False username, not sentient.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Don't be silly. Drug testing is largely for worker's comp. Think the insurance wants to pay out on an accident a fucked up employee got into? That has nothing to do with the employer.

That's why the vast majority of jobs coded as "clerical" do not require a test. Employers don't want to pay for all that if they don't have to.

EDIT: Lemmings who know nothing of the employment field, but want to get righteously angry.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I smoke a joint on the weekend that has nothing to do with an injury on a Thursday.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

but thanks to decades of war on drugs propaganda, if you smoke a joint on the weekend you're a bad and dangerous person and it's not just acceptable but incumbent upon Real God-Fearing Americans(c)(tm)(r) to hurt you however they can.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sorry you're eating downvotes but this is the absolute truth in a lot of cases. I put in 18 years at various restaurants, worked every position except manager. I've never needed a drug test to get a job, and every job I ever had in that industry people were definitely on drugs at work, but drug tests are mandatory after a workplace injury. The reason being they don't actually care whether you're high at work but they can use the fact that almost everyone in a restaurant is high in order to cut costs under the guise of "workplace safety".

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't imagine trying to cook while stoned. It just doesn't work that way for me.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

They don't really cook in a lot of kitchens (chain ones anyway), it's more like they're microwaving it for you.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

lol I worked at a place whose name rhymes with "Sad Tex" because they're called Mad Mex where the cooks were literally hitting the bowl on the line and blowing it into the hoods

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are exceptions, though. For instance, anyone who works in any capacity in the aviation industry is legally required to be tested for drugs. That includes, for example, software engineers working on booking systems.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yep! Aviation is a whole nother world.