[speaker002:] okay all set then uh what do you think about it
[speaker001:] uh I think it's a real good concept uh drug testing procedures would have to be refined
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] from what I've seen on the news there's a a a pretty good size problem with poor accuracy poor procedure in uh drug testing
[speaker002:] oh I didn't realize that
[speaker001:] yeah um there have been people who have been turned down for jobs because there was a drug showed up in their in their uh test but they didn't know for sure what it was but it was a drug so they got turned down and uh turns out it was a prescription or people getting somebody else's blood test
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] same sort of problem that happens sometimes with these some of these uh like AIDS tests and such
[speaker002:] okay um-hum yeah that's right I have heard uh I don't remember what they call it sort of like a positive negatives or some some kind of word they use when a uh you get a uh a positive indication of drugs but there's not really there weren't really any there uh every now and then there's an error and people are really upset about that when it comes to their rights and their rights being violated
[speaker001:] yeah oh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I I work here at Texas Instruments so uh we we do a let me think do we yeah everyone coming in I guess I did three years ago
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] everyone coming in uh goes through the drug testing procedure and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] they talk about it as a you know as as better for the country and better for the working conditions uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] if they uh they test for drugs I I'm I can't even remember if we do random sampling anymore I know we did in the military but I don't know if once your in they continue to do it but I guess you're always on call for it
[speaker001:] yeah  yeah I not very long ago worked for Wal-Mart and about a year and a half ago they instituted a uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] a uh drug testing program uh well drug and alcohol testing program it's it's not a random through the system as each employee comes in
[speaker002:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker001:] part of the hiring procedure is a a blood test um but and uh I think the big problem though is is they send these off to large labs
[speaker002:] in my uh-huh right
[speaker001:] and then they have thousands and thousands of the samples that uh going through it in a day and bottles get mixed up and things like that a potential for inaccuracy
[speaker002:] so your big beef with it is the uh is is it's a good idea but like you said the drug testing procedures need to be defined a little better or make sure it's a lot safer because a couple of people are going to be discriminated against unfairly or whatever yeah I I I tend to agree with you David
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] yeah my brother uh my brother used to work for Wal-Mart and then I don't know if he still does or what because I don't know if Sam's is actually part of it but he you know is working at Sam's now
[speaker001:] yeah yeah Sam's is part of Wal-Mart
[speaker002:] okay yeah then he's been working for the company for a while too yeah he enjoys it good company um you all uh have some his
[speaker001:] yeah oh yeah the company I thought was a great place to work
[speaker002:] telling me about good profit sharing and all that so
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it's good news
[speaker001:] yeah they got to have had two or three years in with them then you start buying stock and you have a have a little taken out of your check each each payday to put against uh uh stock portfolio uh not portfolio just you know against Wal-Mart stock
[speaker002:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh you can build a pretty fair amount of stock after a while
[speaker002:] yeah that's what my brother was telling me that's good good news good deal well uh how long were we supposed I haven't done this in a couple months how long were we supposed to discuss for
[speaker001:] uh you're supposed to get five minutes
[speaker002:] okay we got a couple more minutes then I guess uh think what else I can say about that um
[speaker001:] um do you have any idea uh let's see were you were you were tested for drugs as you got into uh as as you got into TI
[speaker002:] right um everyone coming in gets goes through the drug test
[speaker001:] yeah uh now uh were you asked to wait before starting to work until the drug test came through or
[speaker002:] uh no well let me think about that yeah it was after I was I had already been hired um yeah you get hired then you come in the first I
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] seems to me I remember that uh I was hired came in and went through some orientation and I thought I boy I can't remember that would seem strange to already be working here in the first week of the drug test maybe it was during the interview I came up a couple times for an interview so it's hard for me to remember where I was when all that happened but uh I guess just like other companies other friends I've been hearing about that have been moving around it's it's before they have to wait for the drug test to come in before you actually get employment so I'm sure that happened to me too
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] what what about oh they just instituted it there at Wal-Mart so
[speaker001:] yeah they they it was after I was already working there and they weren't testing any of those that were already working so
[speaker002:] right right yeah I wasn't