I just had a revelation about somthing that happend like more than a year ago, believe it or not I'm high. Ok so I had a really awesome job, in a factory. I would spend all day doing one of two things. Either sitting at a little station and packaging shit and putting it on a conveyer belt, or sitting in the back of a HUGE semi with an adjustable conveyer going to the back, all I had to do was stack boxes. Occasionally there would be a shitload of boxes comming at once, some being very heavy. You had another person with you, and the rest of the shipping department were all pretty cool. As long as a supercizer wasn't walking around the tuck dock area you could even smoke in the back of a truck since within half an hour, the area you smoked in will have become a giant wall o' boxes, or on your break in this little smoking hut way around the building. And this one sucurity guard didn't give a shit. One time when I came in after getting stoned and had to walk through the metal detector, and the old black sequirity guard was either totally unaware of the obvious fact that I was high, or he didn't care. Generally supervisors don't make it a priority to go after people smoking pot (because there were so many), but if they saw you ripping a bong you'd be fucked. Anyway, I even managed to never actually talk to supervisers imideately after getting high, which wasn't even that often. Any way what does that all mean... well, it was a good job. That was the point of that whole fuckin essay thing I had going on. Now to the point. I worked very hard and my quota or whatever it was, was very high. They ended up sort of letting me go, saying they decided only to keep me for the season, so it technically wasn't getting fired, but probably worse, it meant my job ended imidiately, and I didn't have notice. At that time I dressed like a stoner, with tie dye shirts and my gong mandala shirt... and i smelled of sweet sweet ganja allot of the time. I think my superviser let me go just because I seemed like someone who smoked pot. Anyway, like I said, I'm stoned. I just sort of let shit spew out of my head and this happend, I don't even remember when I got the whole idea of typing this.
we are "Drug users" which becomes a liability for them when you are working there as well as if they are covering insurance
Yeah, thats true I guess. I personally think if you just smoke pot your not gonna go causing havoc in a factory. Workplace accidents are seen similarly to car accidents. If you have the metabolite in your system, they treat it like you smoked pot right before it happened, when in actuality it could have been weeks before it happened. Because of that I think that the information that says how much money pot smokers cost the companies is inaccurate. I mean, I think if you smoke a big bowl, and then try to drive a forklift, its a bad idea, but in my situation all I did was stack fucking boxes, it was like kind of like tetris, lol.
Lol, my last job assumed I was smoking pot, and I wasn't at the time. None of them cared, I think they were happy cause they thought they found a hook-up.
Dude, if you worked in my factory and you showed up smelling like weed and wearing tie-dye shirts every day, I would probably fire you too. It's a job. Your not supposed to let your bosses know that you smoke weed. Work hard at your job to make money to buy pot. Then go home and be as big a stoner as you want.
Ya, with physical labor I think discrimination against drug users is pretty appropriate. It's different if you are sitting at a desk everyday or something, but when you can hurt yourself and/or others on the job then I'm sure it's a liability thing, which would justify them choosing to let you go.
^ Amen brother. My last job I worked in a warehouse that was part of a garden center & they didn't drug test anyone, which really surprised me b/c people would be flying around on forklifts & moving massive pallets of whatever was coming off the truck. Not only that but occasionally you would have to move something out to the store which meant you would be driving it around customers. I would also never dress like a stoner at really any job just b/c there are always those people who are going to stereotype you by the way you look. And like Palm said, at least wait until you get home to smoke up.
Ok let me clarify. Yes I worked in a factory, but the only machinery I operated was the fucking vending machine. The factory was HUGE, and the departments that used machinery might as well have been a different company. This apparently is just me, but stacking boxes, even when your high, is just about the easiest thing you can do. And I didn't LET my supervisers know that I smoke pot. Its not like a fucking wendys where your managers work for you. I had like 15 supervisers and I rarely saw any of them, when I did, it would be durring briefing with about 50 other people. Most of my supervisers would have to look at my name tag. When I smoked I would be very careful, and I never got caught.
Well you did smoke pot there before... What the hell do you expect. A medal of honor for not being able to wait till your off work?
:cheers2: Don't let fondfarewell see this.. he may think you're being an ass.. telling him he shouldn't be getting high when working
