Yeah I remember when my factory hired a young woman to head HR shortly after weed was legalized where I lived and she immediately got to ensuring we wouldn't be punished for smoking. The stoners are rarely a problem, and you really don't want to lose a bunch of people just because their mild drug of choice is fat soluble instead of water soluble

It does amuse me how I've had doctors and employers drug test me which only pushed me from weed to acid

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You can have a prescription for opiates too.

Doesn't make it OK to be high at a job where that impairment puts you and others in danger.

That being said, there's no test for THC that has a narrow enough time window to tell if someone is currently intoxicated. Blood tests are the closest at 6h, but blood levels aren't correlated with intoxication.

I live in a state with recreational marijuana, but my current employer's policies specifically prohibit even medical marijuana, and I had to do a pre-employment drug test. Looking for a better job, but I've exhausted unemployment and all my savings, so it pays the bills for now.

True.

Are we the baddies?!

It's essentially someone to man the front desk, route phone calls, process simple single-trade building permits, and manage the contractor registry for the building department. It requires either a degree (of any kind just to show minimum qualifications) or experience in administrative duties or in an office or municipal setting.

Our one applicant has never held a job more than 4 months and it's mostly been retail or restaurant work.

The catch with the job is the commute sucks. It's a very wealthy area. Literally every homeowner in the city is at least a multi-millionaire, with multiple billionaires, so exactly 0 staff members live in town. We actually pay a pretty large monthly gas stipend on top of every employee's salary.

And while it shouldn't impact a permit tech, the legal fights we have with residents are wild. The average person we end up in disputes with has more financial resources than the city itself, which is weird. Every city has residents constantly threatening to sue over everything, and 99.99% of the time it's hot air, but with us they actually follow through. Which, oddly enough, makes us less likely to respond to legal threats since we're used to going to court at this point.

Ugh, that's dystopian.

You see it as an extension of slavery because that's exactly what happened.