One of my friends/customers is running a project with electricians. The project is for the state and rather massive in scale. My friend's company is a subcontractor on this project.
His boss, the one that manages subcontractors came to him and said one my friend's employees was smoking pot on the job site. It is the second time that someone went into a portable toilet and said they smelled smoke and found a can that was used to smoke marijuana. As mentioned, this is the second time he has been suspected of smoking like this, a single man in a crew of over 30.
My friend is worried about his company's image and it is a state contract. The working environment is categorically unsafe as it is, and everyone is always trying to make it safer. Although my friend, the project manager is a closet smoker, he has to take care of his job.
So my friend calls the worker into his office and tells him that he has been accused of smoking marijuana. The man looks him in the eye and said he has never used that portable toilet ever. He says he is not perfect, but would not risk a $35 an hour job getting high. And if he really needed to get high he could have easily just used an edible. He insisted on facing his accuser and said someone has a beef with him and his company because they are Non Union.
My friend looked this man in the eye and determined that he wasn't stoned and was telling the truth. He told the worker to go back to work.
My friend was telling me this Friday. He said that since the new recreational pot laws have been passed in the state he don't know what to do. He told me that if he had to drug screen his crew it would take 3/4 of them out. He has a contract to finish and needs everyone he has and more. The thing that gets me is he seriously doesn't want to start drug testing.
My thoughts are this; Have we crossed a line now, where recreational marijuana using is going to be accepted?
Ever since Reagan started drug testing it has changed and handicapped the work force. No longer were you able to get the most qualified for a given task, you had to sort by the non pot smokers first and then get the best of what is left.
I know the supreme court ruled that companies can still fire marijuana smokers, but not everyone wants to fire the pot smokers, my friends company included. Firing the pot smokers leaves you with a smaller pool of people to chose from.
I really think the tide is turning. Of course I never have to take a drug test and I do not drug test my employees. My work is not dangerous, not reliant on federal or state funding and basically manned by free thinking artist. My only requirement is that nobody blows a sale because they looked bad to the customer. I don't think most of my customers care. They are into the art, not the person selling it.
His boss, the one that manages subcontractors came to him and said one my friend's employees was smoking pot on the job site. It is the second time that someone went into a portable toilet and said they smelled smoke and found a can that was used to smoke marijuana. As mentioned, this is the second time he has been suspected of smoking like this, a single man in a crew of over 30.
My friend is worried about his company's image and it is a state contract. The working environment is categorically unsafe as it is, and everyone is always trying to make it safer. Although my friend, the project manager is a closet smoker, he has to take care of his job.
So my friend calls the worker into his office and tells him that he has been accused of smoking marijuana. The man looks him in the eye and said he has never used that portable toilet ever. He says he is not perfect, but would not risk a $35 an hour job getting high. And if he really needed to get high he could have easily just used an edible. He insisted on facing his accuser and said someone has a beef with him and his company because they are Non Union.
My friend looked this man in the eye and determined that he wasn't stoned and was telling the truth. He told the worker to go back to work.
My friend was telling me this Friday. He said that since the new recreational pot laws have been passed in the state he don't know what to do. He told me that if he had to drug screen his crew it would take 3/4 of them out. He has a contract to finish and needs everyone he has and more. The thing that gets me is he seriously doesn't want to start drug testing.
My thoughts are this; Have we crossed a line now, where recreational marijuana using is going to be accepted?
Ever since Reagan started drug testing it has changed and handicapped the work force. No longer were you able to get the most qualified for a given task, you had to sort by the non pot smokers first and then get the best of what is left.
I know the supreme court ruled that companies can still fire marijuana smokers, but not everyone wants to fire the pot smokers, my friends company included. Firing the pot smokers leaves you with a smaller pool of people to chose from.
I really think the tide is turning. Of course I never have to take a drug test and I do not drug test my employees. My work is not dangerous, not reliant on federal or state funding and basically manned by free thinking artist. My only requirement is that nobody blows a sale because they looked bad to the customer. I don't think most of my customers care. They are into the art, not the person selling it.
