I'll take a little humiliation to watch a guy take a whiz!
Maybe he'll bribe me to not watch.
"Transit workers giving urine sample may get audience" by Tania deLuzuriaga, Globe Staff | August 24, 2008
Some transportation workers in Boston and across the country may soon have an audience when they give urine samples for workplace drug tests, according to revised federal regulations.
The new US Department of Transportation Guidelines, which take effect in November, will require "directly observed collection" of urine from employees who previously tested positive for drugs or from those whose prior urine samples appear to have been tampered with.
I'm not gonna hold it for 'em!!!
"The observer must personally and directly watch the urine go from the employee's body into the collection container," the new guidelines say.
Observers will also demand that those employees raise their shirt and drop their pants to ensure that the employee is not using a device to sabotage the test, the new guidelines say. Observers are required to be the same gender as the employees being tested.
"Unfortunately, there is a flourishing industry designed to help people facilitate continuing drug use," said Brian Turmail, a spokesman for the US Department of Transportation. "The only way we can get around that is to do a visual inspection."
The new rules will affect transportation workers across the state whose jobs could effect public safety, such as those operating or maintaining equipment or doing law enforcement, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said. He said he did not expect significant changes in the agency's drug testing procedures.
Currently, employees who fail a drug test are subject to periodic random follow-up tests. Under the new rules, those employees will have to take observed tests in the future.
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On philosophic grounds I am opposed to the intrusion of privacy; however, there is the public safety issue.
You don't need a bombed-out driver of your subway car or bus.
One thing is clear though: this kind of invasiveness just leads to more tyranny, as we have seen. The DRUG "WAR" needs to end!
