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Company leaves Colorado, too many employees coming in high
9News ^ | April 23, 2015 | Jen Marnowski

Posted on 10/01/2015 9:36:03 AM PDT by ameribbean expat

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To: ameribbean expat

Unexpected? Not!


41 posted on 10/01/2015 9:59:45 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Ooh, the marxists have a new mantra: the religion of pot is the opiate of the masses.


42 posted on 10/01/2015 9:59:57 AM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: ameribbean expat
Idiot company, unless they are fleeing taxes, liability, or unions. All they need is a "no substance use on property during company time" policy.

No smoking. No drinking. No pot use.

Wouldn't that allow them to fire at-will dope head employees? I mean if I came in drunk after lunch, they'd fire me in a heartbeat, let alone being stoned.

43 posted on 10/01/2015 10:01:30 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Probably why the employer moved.


44 posted on 10/01/2015 10:03:05 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Because if marijuana is legal, would it become illegal to discriminate against those who use the drug; illegal to do drug testing for pot????

It depends on whether a state's law forbids testing or not. In states where it is legal, I'm not aware of any prohibition against employer tests.

Heck, there are more and more employers testing for tobacco these days.

45 posted on 10/01/2015 10:03:27 AM PDT by gdani (No sacred cows)
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To: from occupied ga

It is still illegal to smoke weed in public in Washington State.


46 posted on 10/01/2015 10:04:29 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: ameribbean expat
There is ALWAYS a cost to making unprecedented changes like this; the drugged-out left and libertarians just shove those considerations under the carpet, and pretend that there are no costs, just benefits.

What's sad is that we may not realize these costs until many years into the future, when the attitude is already ensconced, and a retreat to sanity is no longer achievable.

47 posted on 10/01/2015 10:05:06 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: 2big2fail

He is smart to leave a place that is losing qualified and productive employees.

It’s stupid to try making a business work with a ‘talent pool’ that is surging with unmotivated and unproductive employees.


48 posted on 10/01/2015 10:05:54 AM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: Autonomous User

Is that old Cheech and Chong?


49 posted on 10/01/2015 10:06:59 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: ameribbean expat

shock of shocks


50 posted on 10/01/2015 10:08:49 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: DCBryan1

That’s what he’s saying - he kept having to fire people and couldn’t replace them with pot free employees. I find this article fishy.


51 posted on 10/01/2015 10:09:16 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: Gunslingr3; Dilbert San Diego; All

In the words of a militant dyke pushing the unintended consequences of state-affirmed sodomy on children: “Give me a break! It’s legal now!”


52 posted on 10/01/2015 10:10:14 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Vision Thing

Or maybe the real story is he can hire them cheaper in SC. Because I’m pretty sure they have marijuana there too.


53 posted on 10/01/2015 10:10:24 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: Autonomous User

Ah yes.....The Wedding Album


54 posted on 10/01/2015 10:11:47 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: shotgun

It is still illegal to smoke weed in public in Washington State.

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Same is true in Colorado.


55 posted on 10/01/2015 10:18:21 AM PDT by dmz
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"He drug tested and fired but there is a cost to constantly hiring new help and decreased productivity."

It's called PRE_EMPLOYMENT drug testing.

Don't hire potheads.

56 posted on 10/01/2015 10:28:27 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: nascarnation

Did she sue for alimony??


57 posted on 10/01/2015 10:37:17 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: DCBryan1

Pot smoking has always been overlooked. Heck, I worked for a big firm in NYC and I used to see all the mailroom guys wreathed in a cloud of smoke on the front steps when I went out for lunch. Needless to say, we had problems with misdelivered mail...but it was obviously ok with the bosses, who seemed to believe it was a cultural (black) thing.

Even when my son went to high school in CA in the late 80s, the kids were literally getting stoned in front of the school. If they’d been getting drunk they would have been arrested, suspended or whatever. But getting stoned is a liberal thing, so it didn’t matter that they came back after lunch, put their heads on the desk and ignored whatever was theoretically being taught.


58 posted on 10/01/2015 10:41:28 AM PDT by livius
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To: ameribbean expat

Federalism at work. The rest of the country can thank Colorado for attracting the potheads. Too bad we couldn’t do the same with gay marriage and Obamacare thanks to the legislative activity of the SCOTUS.


59 posted on 10/01/2015 10:42:34 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ameribbean expat

gosh what a surprise- Just wait till they legalize cocaine- then business will really pick up-


60 posted on 10/01/2015 10:44:04 AM PDT by Bob434
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