The auto bailout in action.

[Texas_Bryan]

Sounds like my job, but then again, the taxpayers don't pay my salary and I don't work in a factory.

[twyacht]

TW, This country was built by guys who sent a kid to the store to get them buckets of beer for lunch.
While your comments about blood tests are true, the spirit of your post is the same "Temperance BS that led to that shining success known as prohibition.
Your comment about "professionalism ? You have no evidence to back it up. Professionalism is about doing good work, A persons personal habits have no impact on that. In fact, I would go so far as to say that stoners are better machinists than non stoners.

Perhaps I hold the taxpayer dollars that bailed out the unions to a higher standard. It's bad policy, that even has the UAW following up with reviews and backtracking. It's a big pie in their face and they know it. I am hardly an endorser of prohibition.

However,

Maybe we would have less automotive recalls, if the union folks assembling them were ALL sober?

Perhaps a doctor should take a bong hit or two before working on a patient, let a pilot down a couple, like FQ posted, it's only a couple.

These folks are helping build a vehicle my family might be in. Automated or not, the human element is the final line in the sand. I would expect more out of overpaid monkey union "professional car builders"...

Especially, since it's OUR dollars buying their booze and dope.

As far as my personal professionalism, I can back that up. As far as a $40,000 brand new car, you and I both know it can look awesome in the parking lot, but it's HOW it went together, and by who that matters. And a bunch of union monkeys getting high in a park, on the taxpayer dime? Hardly a "standard of achievement worth striving for".

[alfack]

And a bunch of union monkeys getting high in a park, on the taxpayer dime? Hardly a "standard of achievement worth striving for".

I agree 100%. Gotta love those new Chevy commercials that fail to mention the taxpayers and stockholders that are taking it in the ass.

[Couzin]

I am embarrassed to admit - but when I worked at Chrysler back in the early 70s, we would take breaks and lunches up on the roof (we were welding in the body shop and it was hot) and there was always pot and drink available.  Every once in a while some wiseguy on the line would find a soda bottle and tie it to a string suspended inside a panel somewhere so it would clunk around when the vehicle was driven.  We helped destroy the quality of a great car company.

[twyacht]

What any of us who were caught smoking pot or drinking on job, would have got....


FIRED.

http://www.theblaze.com/the-wire/414251/chrysler-fires-13-workers-caught-boozing-on-tape/


Chrysler fires 13 workers caught boozing on tape

DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler Group LLC says it has fired 13 plant workers a Detroit TV station caught drinking alcohol and smoking what appeared to be marijuana during breaks.

Chrysler manufacturing chief Scott Garberding told WJBK-TV in a Sept. 22 report that the automaker identified some of the workers from Detroit's Jefferson North plant on tape and was pursuing the others.

The automaker said then that it was suspending the workers. On Monday, Chrysler said it fired them.

In a statement, Chrysler said the workers violated its code of conduct.

Chrysler says two other workers got one-month unpaid layoffs.

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They were only drinking beer,...

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[tombogan03884]

You people are getting all worked up about something that has been a fact of life in EVERY factory in America for decades.
You all sure do brag on the fine workmanship in your fire arms. The ONLY gun company I know of that tests is Sig,
T/C didn't bother, they knew they would not be able to fill positions, including set up people, Lead men, and Inspectors.
Any one with machining ability,or a willingness to work in a Foundry is either a pothead or to close (or over ) to retirement.
Both of the guys I know who got hired at Sig were stoners, which shows how good testing works.
It isn't meant to tell if you use weed, it's intent is to see if you are to dumb to pass the test.