re: *Confirmed* Aaron Douglas has passed away...

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Don't know what your profession is if you've graduated, or what your major is if you are a student.

Suppose you are working at your job, and because of an accident not caused by you, your employer has to have every employee tested for drugs in order to maintain his insurance policy. You in no way contributed to this hypothetical accident, but once you test positive for pot, your employer has no choice but to have you either submit to self-funded rehabilitation, or terminate you.

Say you are a nurse, and the narcotic count comes up short during your shift. You, being an occasional toker, always make sure that you correctly account for any narcotic you administer, but again, everyone must be tested and even though it wasn't weed that was missing, you test positive for a controlled substance. Now, the Board of Nursing will require that you undergo rehabilitation, possibly suspend your license, and definitely fine you.

In either of these "hypothetical" examples, you're basically fricked into staying at the current job because either of these examples will follow you for the rest of your professional career, and will definitely prevent advancement to a management position, unless it's daddy's company that employs you.

Think about it. You were functioning with no problem, someone else screwed up. Their screw up led to the entire immediate work force being tested. Your token tokin habit screwed you, and will continue to for the rest of your life.

Is it really worth it?

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Functioning=doing what you are supposed to do.

Obviously if I was at risk of losing my job, and still smoked, then I wouldnt be functioning properly.

Thanks for the lecture though, dad.