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I'm not so sure I would want to drug test everyone.
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... I was told by my HR rep. that if you have a drug testing program, you must test everybody. You can't cherry pick.
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If you want to keep being held hostage to a group of people who cannot get their lives under control then you are walking a fine line.
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...Boy does that hit the nail on the head.
Over the years I've had employees that may work hard and are quite concerned about the quality of their work but were consistently a pain in the butt to deal with because they "had issues." They could not handle the stress of simple decision making and problem solving and acting like a leader/foreman when I was not around was simply too much stress. They could be glorified laborers but that's it. The mental/emotional maturity was lacking. And guess what?...They all "needed"(their words) to smoke up after hours...Notice any connection?
Sure, they were not stoned when they showed up the next day but what's the emotional maturity level of anyone that still needs to smoke up at 25? Not too mention 35. And the joke is these guys are all single, no mortgage or car payments etc....and life stresses them too much.
And every year that passes, I have less patience with any of these chemically dependant people. I have friends and family dealing with REAL problems like children with juvenile cancer or being the caretaker of parents with Alzheimers, and they bravely deall with these problems head-on. They don't "need" to get drunk or smoke-up to escape life.
I think it will be a challenge to get a drug free workplace, though, without switching to, say, a predominently Hispanic workforce (which is why I asked the question to Dale). They take their job seriously because they work to better the life of their family at home. This takes precedent over their own selfish desires.