"H the K" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"H the K" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"H the K" wrote in message
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Actually, if you don't run tests and check backgrounds, you simply
don't know if you've hired a druggie or a thief, do you?


sigh Some of us take responsibility for our decisions. If proven
wrong, we accept our misjudgment.

Eisboch
You are skirting the "factuality" of the statement.


It doesn't matter. In a small operation, the bad apples smell quickly.

I am not in disagreement with you. It's just that it is obvious that
your experiences in life have been heavily weighed towards bigger
businesses, unions and/or the attempts to organize them.
In that size of a company the president and upper level management are
typically not involved with day to day operations and in the hiring of
new employees, other than top management.

In may case, virtually all my experience is with very small businesses,
although we dealt with large ones often as a supplier of equipment.
During my tenure as owner/president of a company, we peaked at about 70
something employees, probably not much larger than the BOD of IBM. By
that time formal departments with department managers were in place and
they were responsible for the recruitment and hiring of people to staff
their departments.

But, we maintained a custom of having me also do a short interview,
usually during the second, follow up interview, with all prospective new
employees recommended by the respective department managers. All I
really did was give a speach about the company "team" culture. But, it
gave me an opportunity to size up who would be joining the team, from
engineers to general shop labor.

Eisboch


These days, if you are a contractor doing "sensitive work" for the DoD and
some other agencies, certain categories of employees must be tested for
substance abuse. That's also the case on federally funded construction
projects, and the trend is spreading to state-funded projects *and* to
privately funded projects where the sponsors and contractors want a
drug-free workplace.

I don't see anything wrong with the practice. If I were a construction
worker, I sure as hell wouldn't want to be working on a scaffold or on the
ground alongside workers who were "high."

Being high, of course, usually is a requirement in the pop music biz,
right?



--
A wise Latina makes better decisions than a dumb elephant.

Maybe we should test Judge elects and Congress people also. Show illegal
drugs in your system, Fired!