Reply #13: Feeling outraged is totally appropriate [View All]

[Susang]

Employers do not have a right to your bodily fluids. End of story.

It's great that you allow them to test you, but if you stop to think about it, really think about it, you should realize how invasive and wrong this kind of drug testing is.

First of all, the tests are far from accurate. The amount of human error and false positives is staggering. Then there's the simple concept of what information your employer is entitled to. Personally, I don't believe that my employer has any right to know what trace substances are to be found in my urine/hair/whatever. Do they have the right to know what prescription drugs I take? How about what foods I eat? Where does my employer's jurisdiction over my personal behavior end?

There is a right to privacy in this country that is slowly being eroded with our consent. The fact that you and others are no longer upset by the fact that you are being subject to what amounts to an illegal search and seizure is proof of it.