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31-12-2015, 04:03 PM | #62 | ||
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Young trainee in my industry got random drug tested and got shown the door because he was positive for ice...while on a probationary period.
Way to piddle away a near-$120,000 a year job, idiot. Ice is an absolute scourge...I don't want some plonker sitting beside me in a train and not knowing when they're going to phase out and ignore a red light or snap and go mental. Good on them for having a zero tolerance about it. Come to that it worries me driving out along the Capricorn Highway and seeing some of the antics on oncoming and overtaking cars...either they're really bad drivers, or.... |
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01-01-2016, 09:35 AM | #63 | ||
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Guy that I am good mates with got word that one of his younger workers was smoking a lot of the weed. Called him in, told him he would give him 6 weeks to get off it before giving him a drug test (basically company not covered for insurance if worker on drugs). Worker said he would rather keep smoking and have no job. WTF is it with young people these days
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I mean seemingly nice, ordinary people suddenly become attracted to trying some crystal stuff someone hands them who says it's great stuff, and become immediately addicted to it. There seems to be a huge divide in attitude to drug use and mentality about drugs between generations...back when I was a teenager in the early eighties, yeah, you heard about some people smoking dope, but it was never really prevalent. Heroin? They were rightly derided as useless druggies losers. Pills? Didn't exist. And if someone walked up at a party and held out some home made pills and said "Here, you have to try these", the answer would have been "Bugger off...who knows what the hell thgey are or what they'll do to me?" Teenagers (and adults) now? They seem to be constantly on the search for the "next experience" or "the next thrill", instead of just being happy to live life like a normal person (or, as we did back then, pour our spare cash into cars...as the old saying goes: "Bring your kids up with a car habit and they won't have money for a drug habit"...) Instead of telling kids "Just don't take the stuff" and having them listen, our governments and activist groups are intent on telling kids how to "take drugs safely" and giving them legitimacy as "just another fun pastime"...because that's never going to end badly... I don't know if something is wrong with my brain, but if someone offered me some unknown substance at a party, the first thing that sprang into my mind wouldn't be to answer "Yeah sure, why not!".... |
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01-01-2016, 10:55 AM | #65 | ||
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No room at work for muppetts. People get enough warnings and drug & Alcholol tests.
Its a requirement for new employees to have this done before being employed, plus Police & security checks
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01-01-2016, 11:22 AM | #66 | ||
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I have a question. I'm not a stoner, but if I came home from work and ripped a couple of bongs then started laughing at the cat on my kitchen table (I don't have a cat)...will that show up on a drug test the following day even though I'm sober?
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01-01-2016, 11:26 AM | #67 | ||
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It will for up to 8 weeks which seems unfair but if your job is more important(it should be..) then just dont do it.
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01-01-2016, 11:31 AM | #68 | ||
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01-01-2016, 03:10 PM | #69 | ||
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Yeah look we wont get into a whats ok, what should be could be and isn't... I dont really see the problem with green in moderate use but like any drug including alcohol or cigarettes it is addictive and can get out of hand. But the worst a bad pot head is guilty of is being usless, forgetful and broke..stack that up against a bad alcoholic or crack head and they hardly seem in the same league and legalisation may have some merit. It is however still a drug, causes cancer ect...
The real problem is how long its detectable in your system which has switched alot of users to ice which is out of your system in a couple of days. Ive first hand seen my best made become an a grade piece of **** when he started FIFO work and quit pot and hit the glass bbq hard. Wont even speak to the loser now and it took like 2 years max. Smoked pot for 12 years prior... make of it what you will.. |
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01-01-2016, 07:51 PM | #70 | ||
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Yes, THC stays in your system (fat cells IIRC?) for longer than almost any other drug.
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I know people who do a 4 day on 4 day off roster and they sometimes will have a joint after their last shift and **** clean again by the time they are rostered back on 4 days later.
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02-01-2016, 04:40 PM | #72 | ||
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i am an employer and an employee in my own business. if your contract states what the policy is with regards to the use of drugs in the workplace/or detection of drugs in the system while in the workplace and people choose to take the risk and get caught well sorry NO SYMPATHY FROM ME....you made your bed ...... I must say the attitude above of a current employee wanting to continue drug use INSTEAD of having employment is amazing and very sad
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02-01-2016, 06:35 PM | #75 | ||
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a good friend nearly lost his to a positive test (he is lucky to even have one beer let alone anything else)
the unfair part was he had to go do a self funded test to prove he was insentient or get on the next plane home
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02-01-2016, 07:47 PM | #76 | ||
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I think its great, no time for it in any workplace, same as the zero alcohol in system when working, so it should be. Why should my life be in danger working beside someone who is under the influence?
The tests are also pretty touchy, i had 500mg of Ibroprufen three hours before a random drug test and came up positive. Obviously had medical documentation that i could take it, but it was good to know and have trust in a system that works. |
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I know a bloke that did lose his job,he and 3 others failed and were sacked...3 months later (or thereabouts) the company he used to work for were contacted by the outfit that did the tests saying the tests...after further tests had proved to be faulty to late for the 4 people that lost there livelihoods.
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Hard to believe that anyone who was FALSELY tested POSITIVE would not raise hell. If I were tested positive and sacked, I would get immediate retest(s) and head to the low-life lawyers for litigation. Bring on the drug testing. Australia is fast gaining the reputation as a nation of junkies. Sorry for those of us who are 100% drug free. |
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Yes it is very simple, if your employer / workplace has a drug and alcohol policy and random drug testing etc don't come to work while under the influence
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totally agree!!!
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If I'm wrong I'm happy to be corrected. Does seem a fair way to go about it though if true. |
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05-01-2016, 01:59 AM | #86 | ||
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nut you have to have the $$$ up front not 6 months when it reaches court
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8 weeks , yeah sure if you have a hair or blood test
Swab in the mouth youll be fine from the night before, good for a 8 hr or 10 hr break I fact ive 'heard' of people passing after 4hrs..yes they are idiots.
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