Management has to take piss tests too. They may not have to after they get the job, but neither does a factory worker usually. I've never heard of anyone having to take a piss test after they were hired unless they showed up to work high, or there was an accident.
Management does not have to take tests as often before employment. Also they are tested by owners - so the class power still holds. Those with more money get to demand demeaning things from those with less money. It is not the union that gets to test incoming management who may hurt or kill the workers they represent. See what I mean?
Why should those with more money always get to demean those with less?
If you don't want to take a piss test, then don't. An employer has every right to hire who they want.
They have gained the right to demand piss tests. They should not have the right to demand coming in to my personal life. They can check my criminal record or lack thereof. They can ask former employers if they ever had a problem with my behavior, etc.
And we all have the right to do many immoral things. I can walk right past an old lady squirming in the gutter where she has fallen down and not help her. That is my right. But I think it is immoral to do so.
Obviously companies are within their rights; I am saying it is immoral. And now that it is common practice, the 'you can apply elsewhere' argument is unfair.
And for some reason, most employers don't want to hire people engaged in illegal activity.
It is a power issue. It puts people in their place.
And its not illegal to have sex with a person's wife. It's illegal to do drugs.
That was not the point. My point was that the employer is asking me to give up something. Perhaps you cannot sense that. We get used to being treated like shit and then it just seems OK.
If some person walked up to me on the street and asked for a jar of my piss so he could test it, I would say no, who the fuck do you think you are. If they came back that it was a nice neighborhood and lots of families with children and they want to know I am not some drug addled addict, well, nope. Sorry. And to ask me to piss in a cup for you is rude and not ethical. Even though I have some sympathy for the motives.
If we lived in a more tribal society where resources were more evenly distributed and their was access to a rural self-sufficiency, for example, OK who cares, the employers who do this can just be ignored.
What the hell are we teaching our children by approving such drug tests? We are teaching them that people have the right to essentially accuse us of illegal activity and demand that we prove them wrong. We are teaching our children that people with power and money can make demands on people that they would not be willing to satisfy themselves. In fact they would consider it insulting. (and if you want to make a list of other things we are teaching children with this, positive things, these do not erase the bad things we are teaching children)
Picture a corporation that has just set up a chemical factory in a town and the local citizens come to the board meeting with little cups to drug test the board of directors. I mean the town has valid concerns. If this company does not take proper precautions and cuts corners, perhaps there will be toxic leaks or worse. If the board puts undue pressure on the CEO to cut corners and is more concerned with profits than safety, well.....
You think that Board of Directors is going to take those cups in the bathroom. Forget about it. How dare they? The fucking nerve of those little people.
The big dog gets to sniff the little dog's ass.
That's how mature this is and that is what it is really about.