I watched a business interview from May. The owner of a company had basic entry-level jobs for $15 an hour (somewhere in Ohio). The minute he said that a drug-test was required....most folks walked out of the interview. He was now having to go and recruit against the military recruiters at the high school, and try to entice the next graduating class to enter his production line.
SO offer $17.00/hr. No one yet? $18.00/hr. See how that works? Not so hard is it?
I wonder how many people would have left the line if he had said that a drug-test would be required in two weeks, and failure would be grounds for firing.
-> Like it or not, testing positive for drugs no longer indicates a criminal background.
-> Unemployment is really boring.
-> Not all drug users are irredeemably addicted.
This is coming from someone who hates drug use, hates drug legalization, and who was fairly bitter and resentful of useless, pot-smoking co-workers when I was a teen worker. But hey, how bright did my boss have to be to check where his stock-boys disappeared to for about three hours a day? He obviously was OK with it.
“He was now having to go and recruit against the military recruiters at the high school, and try to entice the next graduating class to enter his production line.”
The druggies will flunk the drug tests of the military, and they will not be able to join.