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Termyn8or -> RE: Hedge-fund manager resignation letter (10/19/2008 12:38:18 PM)
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I read the article, but it matters not. They have no right to make it illegal so I simply don't care. I don't care if it cures or causes cancer, I do what I want, when I want. People around me are lucky that I have decided to be nice, but the fact is still extant, that nobody, and I mean nobody tells me what to do or not do.
One of these days someone might try to give me a drug test. I will handle that in one of two ways. I might refuse, and I will say straight out "You have no right to test me, while you have the right to expect me to come to work sober and straight, if I smoke a joint on Saturday night it is none of your business". In another case I might go ahead and pee in the bottle, and test positive of course, then I will say "OK, what of it, when do you want me to start ?".
A buddy of mine was worried that they would start testing at work. He is a toker. He has also been there over twenty years and it is a pretty good job. He bitches about it but who doesn't, well hedge fund managers generally don't but an exception is cited in the OP.
What he didn't know is that if they fired him for testing positive, he could sue. I tried to tell him to keep a nice slush fund handy. You see it is an addiction in their eyes, and therefore a disease. When you have a proven performance record and no big incidents, if they fire you, go home and call a lawyer. A good one. If you can afford it you can get all that pay for NOT working. Drag the case out as long as you can afford it and enjoy the paid vacation.
Yes, with all this war on drugs bull, this is part of the law. It is in their eyes a disease, therefore you can no more be fired for addiction than you can for catching a cold. Luckily I don't have to deal with it.
Sorry to instigate a hijack here, but what the heck.
T
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