Sorry should have posted in off topic!
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Hi everyone,
I haven't been around much and havent posted for a long time, but
I need to get some feedback on my night at work.
I work in a factory in Indianna.
When I arrived at work, there were 2 county police cars occupied and parked in the entrance. Sometimes they come looking for specific people.
Before work started the plant manager held a meeting and stated that they were concluding an investigation into violations of the drug/alcohol policy, 0-tolerance.
Work starts at 4pm, at 6:30 I wanted to go to my car and get a pack of ciggarettes. No one was allowed to go to their cars. No one was allowed to go out in the parking lot. I felt a bit like a prisoner. After going back to work for a while I realized I was pretty upset.
There were several people in plain clothes walking about the parking lot and there was a dog sniffing at the vehicles. If the dog reacted to a vehicle it was tagged for searching. My car was tagged!
Now I have nothing to hide but I was angry and obnoxious. The consent form said
I must consent to a search or be terminated. The search was for drugs or alchohol.
They found 4 empty beer bottles in the trunk that have been there since at least January. So now I have to go to the clinic for a test. They took me to a room where we had to wait for a van to arrive to transport us. I was waiting over an hour and I was becoming really mad. I could not leave the room. I was a perisoner at work. There were now 4 of us in there. I was joking with The others
and trying to keep it light, inside I was fumming mad. I just wanted to get it over with.
There were 2 men watching us, one of them left, when he returned he told us that we could not talk amongest ourselves.
That was it, I had had enough!!! I stormed from the room, saw the plant manager, stormed up to him and asked him very loudly what the @#ck was up! We can't even talk? His reply was that I had to return to the room, remain quiet and if I did not do that, what was up was that I was going to lose my job. I turned as he was talking, looked over my and said This is bull s**t. He came after me and took me to a differnt room and said that they would deal with me seperrately and posted another guard at the door.
I figured that they would fire me, however I went with the others in the van to a clinic, was given a breath test(and I had to pee so bad), returned to work.
Now I'm supposed to work for these people! Well I gotta make a living.
To sum up my feelings, I honestly feel that my rights have been violated.
This goes beond eployer employee relationsips. We are a union shop, however I dont think any of our union personnell qualify as an advocate in this situation.
If what they did is legal, then it is just barely legal. I intend to find out.
END OF RANT,
Mark.