Posted on 06/01/2016 11:16:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the unemployment rate drops across the country, employers are running into another problem – finding potential job candidates who will take and pass drug tests. Even though the country is amid an opioid epidemic, employers say marijuana has been the biggest hurdle. New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes talks to Hari Sreenivasan about her reporting on the issue.
HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS ANCHOR: So Jackie Calmes, how big is this problem of people walking away from a job interview when they hear that there’s a drug test?
JACKIE CALMES: Well, it’s bigger than I thought! Clearly, because this whole subject came to me in a completely separate news story I was reporting. And employers, local leaders, just volunteered to me that as the unemployment rate came down, the biggest hurdle they were facing in finding – in filling jobs was finding people who were willing to take a drug test, and if they did take a drug test, could pass it. And I thought, well, that can’t be as big a problem as they’re making it out to be.
So a couple of weeks later when I had some time, I started making calls around the country. This initial tip was in Indiana. And it was like shooting fish in a barrel; it was so easy to find employers to tell me it was a problem.
HARI SREENIVASAN: Is there any kind of way to break this down? Is it a type of worker? Is it from a specific region, a type of industry where these employers are facing these challenges?
JACKIE CALMES: It’s across the board, but it’s clearly a bigger problem in jobs for unskilled or low-skilled people....
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Xanax is the latest “legal” drug craze. I’ve know waaay too many people taking it.
As the unemployment rate drops across the country
That’s because people have quit looking for jobs. So, once they quit looking, they are no longer counted as “unemployed”.
Anybody heavily hit by government regulations I don’t want to work for either. They’re too subject to the whims of idiots. And in the rare instance where it’s perfectly legit to make sure nobody’s on drugs that’s a job where my mistake could kill somebody even stone cold sober, I try to steer clear of that world too.
There sure is a long list of jobs I won’t do. Good thing I’ve got the skills to back my pickiness.
My BIL couldn’t pass a drug test. He smokes weed all day.
They have. Fewer welfare recipients tested positive than the general population.
People don’t work well with a hangover or DT’s.
Yet businesses turn their backs on older job seekers who on the average are less likely to be potheads and more likely to show up each day.
You are absolutely correct!
Of course, there are communistic reasons for that; it is neither accidental nor innocent.
Tell me about it!
Bump for later.
I'm screwed unless they take ear hair.
Tried it once when I was 16 years old; made me feel stupid, never tried it again.
If they are using illegal drugs that suggests they feel they have th right to break any law they don’t agree with. I don’t want to hire anyone who thinks laws don’t apply to them. They pose all sorts of risks for my business.
Do you check them for speeding tickets too? Mattress tags? Fact is in this modern world ALL of think at least a few laws don’t apply to us, partly because there’s just too damn many of them and even really good people have a hard time getting through the day without breaking any.
I started growing, curing, and processing my own tobacco about 10 years ago.
No Commiefornia taxes and a lot better smokes.
It’s not that hard, a little dirt, a little water, and some idiot blood; and now the only thing I have to buy is papers.
I live in Northern California; actually in the heart of the Emerald Triangle (Trinity County), all the folks around me say I should grow pot and make some money, I just tell them “to much baggage with the hippy weed”.
I hope you never wind up doing my payroll.
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