XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: tvaerskaegg@aol.com   
      
   On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:32:25 +0100, Dr John Watson   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Rise in use of drug tests to sack staff without redundancy pay   
   >   
   >    * Diane Taylor   
   >    * The Guardian, Monday 18 May 2009   
   >    * Article history   
   >   
   >Employers are increasingly using drug testing to get rid of staff without   
   >having to make redundancy payouts, as a way of ­cutting costs during the   
   >recession, a ­charity has said.   
      
   I'm not inciting anybody to do such a thing. Oh no, god forbid, that   
   would be quite wrong.   
      
   But If they tried it on some worker who was so upset at being drug   
   tested with a view to firing him that he wanted to get his own back,   
   there are ways he might go about doing it.   
      
   I can't speak for other professions, but in the job I know and can do,   
   an unscrupulous and maltreated worker might do things to the automatic   
   machinery that would cause random stoppages in the process costing the   
   drug testing employer a fortune, and it would take them months to sort   
   it out. Limit switches loosened slightly and adjusted to the extreme   
   edge of their operating area so that they failed to switch now and   
   again, photocells adjusted to the limit of their sensitive area so   
   that vibration made them miss their signal occasionally, terminal   
   screws loosened on relays and connector blocks, tachometer screws   
   loosened just enough so that after a week or so they would start   
   slipping and returning the wrong speeds.   
      
   And that's just a start. There are lots of things such a worker could   
   do and they wouldn't be able to prove a thing. The mistreated worker   
   would get off scott free.   
      
   Oh, what a terrible injustice. How bad and immoral. How could anyone   
   do such a thing? I would never do anything like that to my employer if   
   they drug tested me with a view to firing me. Oh, no, it would be very   
   bad and naughty and I would never do it, nor would I incite anybody   
   else to do it, so listen to me and don't do it, even though there must   
   be similar things other mistreated workers might do in their line of   
   work.   
      
   Svenne   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)