"Furthering the problem, many tech companies do little or no drug testing because, as Albrecht put it, 'they want the results, but they don't want to know how their employees got the results.'
Or maybe these companies know that subjecting their employees to privacy-invading and degrading tests ("go piss in this cup now") will not help them recruit the best developers. I've never used any illegal drugs in my life, but if given any choice, I'd never work for any employer that forced its employees to undergo drug tests.
(I'll concede that some jobs, like piloting an airliner with 300 passengers on board, might reasonably require drug testing, but the vast majority of developers don't do stuff that can get people killed, and if their performance suffers due to drugs they can always be fired for not getting their work done rather than for using drugs.)
Total scare-bait. People do drugs?!?! People with money do drugs?!?! Nothing unique here, not even any real statistics to say that it's increasing with tech people
Mercury News got ahold of my email and I spent years clicking unsubscribe links and delete their emails. Has nothing to do with the story, just saw the URL and had bad feelings. :)
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 22.0 ms ] threadOr maybe these companies know that subjecting their employees to privacy-invading and degrading tests ("go piss in this cup now") will not help them recruit the best developers. I've never used any illegal drugs in my life, but if given any choice, I'd never work for any employer that forced its employees to undergo drug tests.
(I'll concede that some jobs, like piloting an airliner with 300 passengers on board, might reasonably require drug testing, but the vast majority of developers don't do stuff that can get people killed, and if their performance suffers due to drugs they can always be fired for not getting their work done rather than for using drugs.)
Disclaimer: I work for the arrogant Google hypocrites.
This is not an issue. Moving on.