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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Drug testing
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 22:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 22:02:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan    May 21 21:02:00 1986


> My husband had been laid off his job 3 months ago along with 140 others.
> They are starting the call backs now with the condition that each employee
> take a physical and urine test. My husband is number 92 out of 140 on the
> list. Part of me is furious about this testing thing and most of me hopes
> a large number fail so that his chances of returning increase. The job market
> for factory work is closed and I think that any advantage my husband's 
> abstinance gives him is great.  
> It is easy to moralize but let's be practical.
> If there is only one job in town and it is
> between you and someone with possibly illegal habits, you probably would
> welcome a test.

Absolutely. I would also hope that the employer was racist and sexist so
that as a white male I would have a better chance than other, perhaps better
qualified, applicants. It's easy to moralize, but let's be practical.

		Scott McEwan
		{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

"When everybody is out to get you, paranoid is just good thinking."