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>>389807 A) Hate to say, but most of the people in positions of "Authority" are not that worth listening to. Authority is derived from Respect, Respect is ultimately earned, not given, no matter how much your father may try to beat it into you. Most of these people are paying me to respect them, and not actually acting in manners in which I really respect. So I guess that's probably accurate, even if I make an exemplary employee (I fully have the ability to not be a dick to my bosses, even if they're not exactly people I would really follow). B) Liability/Insurance. Oh, like Alcohol? Which you're also not allowed to use on the job? Or Cigarettes, cause of more productivity lost than anything else? I love the unspoken assumption that everyone who smokes weed is just a mindless junky, and that they aren't capable of shelving their habits while in a professional environment to get work done. I know many don't, but that generally because they're jobs are miserable and because they can be performed stoned, and the possibility of losing your shit at a customer goes way up for some of those people. But if you catch them smoking on the job, like drinking, fire their ass. I don't see the real goddamn problem there. C) Yeah, they love to control my life and not offer me any real chance to move up the ladder. Then they turn around and wonder why I don't really respect them. Maybe it's because I can do these tech jobs stoned and they can't even do them.
And I know they have trouble testing for alcohol. They have trouble testing for every illicit drug except for Marijuana. If you look at the wikipedia page for drug tests, Marijuana is the only thing that can stay in your system for up to 2 months. Everything else can clear out in 2-7 days, especially with only light use (Hair Tests get everything up to 90 Days except Benzos, iirc. If they really cared about that shit, that's all they'd be doing). Hell I know people who got hired at my fucking Corporate Job who told me they switched to smoking Meth because it's easier to get by the drug tests with it.
Sorry, I'm not meaning to pick a bone with you, I'm just back in the job market and it's frustrating as shit. One of the best things I've ever had in my life for depression and general quality of life is preventing me from moving up in the world because of these asinine, arbitrary drug restrictions. It's fucking frustrating.
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