Committee OKs Drug Testing Of Welfare Recipients

saywhatkid said:
So random would be the entire squad/platoon? When I was under random testing rules for FAA, they would call the company I worked for and give them 5 names to be tested at once. Some people were never tested, and some were tested a few times. Luck of the draw.
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It depended. In the Reserves, it was usually the whole unit because we met only one weekend per month but we never knew which unit would be hit. For active duty, it was usually a random selection by last SSN number. That is, everyone whose SSN ended in a 4 would be picked that day. The number choice was random, no particular order. It was never by name because that wouldn't be random.

In addition, we got tested at our annual physicals but of course that wouldn't be a surprise testing.
 
saywhatkid said:
This would make it difficult for me, since I am "pee-shy" when someone watches me. All the testing I have done, I had to go into an empty toilet room and submit a sample while the tester waited right outside the door.
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It would be difficult but necessary. When we were tested, if someone took a long time, for whatever reason, they stayed there until it was done.

The watcher doesn't stare the whole time. Just enough to verify that the urine is coming from where it should. :)

Guys have an advantage. At least they aren't facing each other. Women face each other. No one makes eye contact the whole time, if that helps.

Believe me, no one enjoys it. I've been a watcher and a watched one, so I know.

Interesting. Most places I worked would never allow a second test. They would retest the first sample.
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I believe they might do both things.
 
This would only catch potheads since the coke/dust/heroin,meth/crack users look clean practically the next day.
 
Beowulf said:
This would only catch potheads since the coke/dust/heroin,meth/crack users look clean practically the next day.
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But the coke/dust/heroin/meth/crack users have a harder time not using every day.
 
Looks like there's a motive behind his call for drug testing - his family gets to make more money with stocks:

"Scott has aggressively pursued policies like testing state workers and welfare recipients for drugs, switching Medicaid patients to private HMOs and shrinking public health clinics. All these changes could benefit that $62 million investment, but Scott sees no legal conflict between his public role and private investments.

And, experts say, under Florida law he is correct.

A few days before he took office in January, Scott moved his shares in Solantic Corp., a chain of 32 urgent care centers, to the Frances Annette Scott Revocable Trust. Scott co-founded Solantic in 2001 and was involved in its operation until last year. His wife's trust now holds enough stock in the private company to control it."

Gov. Rick Scott's policies could benefit his family's $62M investment - Political Currents - MiamiHerald.com
 
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