Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Piss Testing For Employment

NOT LONG AFTER I RETIRED I got bored and decided to go back to work, so I applied at a company that sells in home senior care, for which I'm well suited. The profit margin of that industry is unknown to me; the wage scale could use some improvement. It may well be that the senior care industry, like the nursing home industry, is somewhat of a "racket". I said to the interviewer: "I smoke some marijuana. Doc says it lowers blood pressure." As if I thought this frank admission might help. I further indicated my objection to being urine tested, mumbling something about some imaginary constitutional right to privacy, then went in the other room, left the door slightly ajar as instructed,, and pissed into a bottle. Evidently I failed, because I never heard from them again. I actually sent them a courteous note, thanking them for the interview, and politely suggesting that in situations in which the interviewee is not hired, that said rejectee be at least informed of the situation on paper, with a nice thank you note for having taken the time out of your busy schedule to show interest in our humble organization, blah blah blah. A little blah blah amenity-courtesy never hurt nobody, and the late great science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein even went so far as to suggest that the level of amenities in a society indicates the level of civilization. Especially in so called "professional" circumstances, courtesy doesn't hurt. Then again, how civilized are we if we accept or reject job applicants based on the chemical content of their piss? Is that crazy, or what? What's next, tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, and cholestoral tests for potential employment? In the name of personal freedom, why don't our conservative freedom mongering right wingers stand up as if they actually had a backbone and even a shred of philosophical consistency, and get rid of this insanity? Tyranny in government is taboo, but tyranny in the free market of corporate capitalism is A. O. K.? Is that it? If it is, its crazy, almost as crazy as the idiots who believe it......PLEASE SHARE THIS WEBISTE WITH OTHER LOVERS OF FREE EXPRESSION! THANKS!

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