Levy Co. FL libraries now drug (and volunteer) free
This is insane.
The retiree volunteers who make the library work are being told to pee in a cup if they want to volunteer. "Our public risk management insurance says we should treat volunteers no differently that any other employees," says the boss. But volunteers are not "employees"; they don't get paid, and have no reason to accept the unacceptable. 53 of 55 volunteers have given the county the Johnny Paycheck Farewell.
"We have a number of volunteers who are older, and I think about how my mother - who is 83 - would react to a test like this," Tollefson said. "She would find it degrading, be totally offended and find it an affront to her dignity. Many of our volunteers feel the same way."
Oh, those crotchety old folks! Did it occur to management that maybe their professional and paraprofessional employees feel the same way? I am 50 years old, and have never taken a drug test, and I don't intend to start now, even though the strongest drugs they'd find in my system are beer and coffee. Frankly, I hope the library has to close its doors or reduce hours over this. Then patrons will inform management how important it is to them that 75-year-old ladies aren't managing their Alzheimers with cannabis.
Thanks to Claire Files.
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