drug test, amsterdam and privacy

So I joined this new company. Well, technically it's the same company I've been working for the last year but as a contractor. But anyways, pre-offer requirement is a drug test, which, I believe, a lot of American companies are doing now a days.

They also have a policy of random drug testing for the employees which some of them believe is not so random. Some people might think that if you've long stinking hair and if you make use of the words "rock on" more often than required or if you start your sentence with a long and stretched "dude" (like the big Lebowski) then you are more likely to be 'randomly' picked for screening. That falls in total agreement with the fact that a lot of random number generating algorithms output the same random number if your input seed is the same.

But I digress. Soon after the drug test, I went to Amsterdam. Coincidence? There's not even a co-relation. And people who think that one can fail a drug test just by smelling Amsterdam are not so far away from the truth. So that kind of "freedom of expression" leads some to question how far are we stretching the invasion of privacy of an individual when you employ a mandatory drug test.

But the spectrum of freedom is so wide and varied in this world that while one individual sees drug testing as intrusion to his freedom, the other is still working on freedom to show her face in public, literally.

So there's another open ended slog. It always seems that I end up like this a lot of times. Did I just say 'end'? Because that's what I'm not doing.