Stoners Wanted

Companies are Getting Rid of Drug Tests Because They Can’t Find Enough Workers

In the midst of a global labour shortage, employers around the world are doing away with drug tests in a desperate bid to attract more job applicants, fill more roles and retain more workers.

A survey, conducted by staffing firm ManpowerGroup and released this week, indicated that 9 percent of more than 45,000 employers worldwide were eliminating job screenings or drug tests as an incentive to “attract and retain in-demand talent.” That equates to some 4,050 employers, from 43 countries, who are willing to turn a blind eye to workers’ recreational drug use if it means filling vacant positions.

13 Replies to “Stoners Wanted”

  1. So what are all these not-working people living on?
    The same question applies to all the new suburbanites and illegal immigrants and “refugees”.

  2. There is only one drug test that matters.
    If you haven’t taken the experimental vaccine, you’re an unacceptable high-risk hire.

    1. Yup. Just got excommunicated on those grounds. Best friend and my own Dad did it. 25 years. But they are vaxxed and protected. Cough. So… oh, nevermind. Dead brain cells on my side trying to explain that and the mental gymnastics on theirs ain’t worth it.

    2. Yup. Just got excommunicated on those grounds too. Best friend and my own Dad did it. 25 years. But they are vaxxed and protected. Cough. So… oh, nevermind. Dead brain cells cumulating on my side trying to explain that and the mental gymnastics on theirs ain’t worth it.

  3. SO …. will they also cut the Covid bullshit and abandon virtue signalling poison injection mandates as well. They will certainly add to the “shortage of labour” (which doesn’t occur and has never occurred in the unhampered market).

    If you build it (a more remunerative welfare state) they will not come (to work). I learned this in my early formative years on The Rock.

  4. When I went in this summer for my new hire mandatory drug test, the tester said they would have 1-2 positive drug tests (coke, meth, pot) per month. They were seeing 3-4/day now. Guys were showing up falling-down-hammered into the office who required security to remove sometimes once a day.

    So, the responsibility rests on the employer to monitor and discipline.

    Being a heavy equipment operator, I just watched a hoe operator move the bucket towards the ground crew member, the bucket ear, where it is attached to the hoes stick (where the bucket attatches to) lurched towards him and caused the ground worker to put his hand up between that and his head so he didn’t get a full-on head strike. Anyone think they want a stoned or jacked up operator getting that close to your melon?

    Asking for a friend.

  5. In Canada, you don’t have any rights until you’ve been arrested; then you’ve got all kinds of rights. Addicts rights almost always supercede the rights of normal people. The legal industry calls it justice.

    1. you don’t have any rights until you’ve been arrested

      No, you don’t. Certain groups of people have privileges once they’ve been arrested, but that’s not the same thing.

  6. When the Chicoms took over China, a large part of the population was hooked on opium. There were opium dens on every corner. TPTB realized that in order to get the population to be productive it had to get rid of the drug dependency…Guess how the Chicoms handled that?

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