[speaker001:] okay uh well since I initiated the call I guess I'll start off first uh number one I have absolutely no problem with random testing uh I spend an awful lot of time traveling on the job and I feel I would be very comfortable if they would do drug testing for particularly airline pilots and the such I'd feel much more comfortable than I do now based on what I've been hearing in the newspapers so I really don't have a problem with it
[speaker002:] yeah uh I don't either I uh I've never worked I don't work at home right now I stay home with my children um but my husband works and they do have that at at his place of employment and neither of us have a problem with it we've particularly like you said with the things that the airlines and and such it's uh it's a scary thing to know that uh you just don't know what people are doing uh before they go to work
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so and the the advertisements on television lately have been so um there've been so many you know there's uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] just about like train train train wrecks and things like that that I feel like probably just for our own safety and when we're traveling and things that would be something I'd like to know that's going on
[speaker001:] yeah I well I happen to be uh my job is I'm supervisor of personnel safety for the world's largest paint company so I it's very near and dear to me when we start talking about drug testing for random sampling and testing for cause this type of thing and even in our field we have people that are in very high risk jobs and we at the present time do not have random testing and I am pushing towards that I I honestly feel if people have nothing to hide
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] they shouldn't have a problem with it
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and if they are trying to hide something then I have to know that because we're talking we're talking major liabilities not only with themselves but with other employees
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I really you know they they're talking about sports sports personalities and all this type of thing but I would much much prefer having doctors and airline pilots tested
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] on a random basis I I have a real fear of that at some point something's going to happen and they're showing it with AIDS so why you know they should they ought to start doing something with the drugs so I really have no problem with it
[speaker002:] yeah well it's it's unfortunate I think that everyone doesn't have that opinion um some people just yeah I've heard some people just talking in our group of friends that they just feel it's an invasion of privacy and things like that but uh in the long run it seems to me it's kind of like what they keep talking about the um the AIDS testing with doctors or dentists and things and how that you know they feel that's not fair and whatever but
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know those kind of things too I'd like to know myself it wouldn't be in my opinion I I've had a lot of dental work done and the last dentist didn't even use gloves at all so
[speaker001:] yes oh really
[speaker002:] that kind of yeah and uh so that kind of thing really kind of concerns me um but
[speaker001:] well that scares me because if this that's the way they are I if I were a dentist I'd wanna be protected too
[speaker002:] well you would think so that is because well and I worked for a dentist and that's uh you know you you come in contact with a lot of of blood and things like that and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it's real real dangerous I I would think but with all the accidents
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] just with with uh everything happening just airlines just drive me crazy people are afraid to fly now you know just because they don't know what their pilot's been doing and and things like that and
[speaker001:] right um-hum
[speaker002:] I don't know
[speaker001:] well you where you're located I I do know Texas Instruments has random drug testing
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I think they've had it for several years and their program they had I don't think had a lot of uh problems associated with it but uh my brother-in-law happens to work there and it it sounded very positive and I I think it's great I I would like I would encourage it I'm pushing our company towards that and also
[speaker002:] well and you know if they do find someone who who is uh having a problem with drugs then they can get them the help that they need as opposed to just letting the problem go on with without any uh support
[speaker001:] right exactly
[speaker002:] and and whatever because a lot of people seems like would probably obviously are trying to hide that uh from their employer and friends and family and things and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] too many people are just dying particularly in our area I don't know what the crime is like where you are but the crime rate here is just astronomical
[speaker001:] right ours is changing yeah ours ours is changing it's increasing I live in a I live in a very nice suburb and it's it's it's unbelievable what what what's going on and the drugs the selling of drugs it's just it's just too loose it's too free
[speaker002:] um-hum I just got a piece of paper the other day uh that now they have these I I have two little very little children under two and I got a piece of paper from from my husband's office it's talking about these uh drug tattoos now
[speaker001:] um-hum really
[speaker002:] that they have got that look like it looks like a sticker and it's for kids