[speaker001:] what do you think
[speaker002:] well uh this is this is about drug testing right
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] well uh I'm I'm certainly under the uh uh the influence of the idea that that the government needs to have less control on what uh what the citizens do although I do see this as uh uh something that definitely needs to be taken care of whether that whether that should be put in the hands of the corporation or in the government or the hands of hands of the government is a you know a a different question I think as far as I'm concerned uh in a in other words I am favor in favor of drug control or or or drug testing um I was drug tested when I came to my job here at TI yet but but at the same time I don't think uh that should be governed by by the government uh per se I think it should be by more by the private institution
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] how about you
[speaker001:] yeah I think they the corporations should uh do all that they should uh have drug screening before they hire an employee
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh anytime that an employee like if they're coming to late work all the time and uh and if they if they're especially if there's not on the line or any kind of sensitive job where
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know if they can if they made a mistake it would cost a lot of money or or people's lives then they need to be watched carefully so
[speaker002:] yeah sure uh-huh yeah I I agree with you I you know I would even think that um uh I could in theory take that alone a you know a step further and say anybody in any job you know if the corporation felt like uh and and this is why I mean uh drugs are the biggest problem I think to face America today I mean it's what drives crime it's what drives
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um uh any sort of of uh uh pain and discomfort in the world or in America I think it's somewhat it's somewhat um driven by drugs and I think that uh were corporations and uh private industry to take um take command in this situation that maybe maybe we might have some some control over that we you know if you can't work then you can't be a little bit harder to take take the drugs or whatever I don't know
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] course that might up crime you know and uh people go in and steal your television and steal and sell it just because they can't they can't work anymore you know
[speaker001:] yeah yeah but you got to have a a safe work place that's all there is to it
[speaker002:] definitely you're you're you're definitely right that you can't you can't have it any other way
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh yeah you know whether whether in in the case that you brought up you know whether uh you know whether if it's a policeman and he's working with uh the public and he has a and has a gun in his holster or or even you know if it's a guy at McDonald's cooking a burger I think they're dangerous in either situation
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um I don't what what do you think um what percentage of of corporations and uh private industry do you think use uh drug testing
[speaker001:] I think it's it's more frequent now it's probably like forty fifty percent
[speaker002:] oh really uh-huh
[speaker001:] yeah because uh all the jobs that I've applied for have uh mentioned some type of drug screening yeah
[speaker002:] right yeah what kind of work are you in
[speaker001:] uh I work at Sears and I just do warehouse work
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh and did they give you drug testing
[speaker001:] uh not they hired me in nineteen eighty four so yeah but now they they uh they issued a statement about that about three months ago
[speaker002:] oh okay uh-huh oh so are they going to uh begin spontaneous uh drug testing
[speaker001:] uh not that I know of it was more about uh all the people's problems like they've been laying off a lot of people and uh and uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh yeah
[speaker001:] they sent out uh employee assistance cards for anyone that had any sort of drug problem or work related problem family problems you know it kind of covered everything
[speaker002:] sure uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] but I know they have a lot of drug problems so
[speaker002:] yeah what do you think about um you know something that kind of concerns me is uh you you know you and I are tested for for whatever work we happen to do do you think there should be drug testing for political officials
[speaker001:] yes I do because because a lot of them are you know they're hypocritical they they talk against drugs and then they get caught you know
[speaker002:] yeah I do too yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] in stings in Washington whether it's drugs or any other kind of uh like the the money laundering scams all that was drug related so
[speaker002:] yeah oh yeah
[speaker001:] and that cost us the country you know billions of dollars
[speaker002:] sure sure yeah I would agree with you I I can't see I can't see how we can expect the you know uh uh
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] people working in the in in America to um uh to put any trust into our political officials if they don't you know uh it just doesn't make sense to have them it it to to worry about legislation unless they're doing that themselves