Reply #84: Liabel and trust

[sweetheart]

I have zero tolerance for not doing your job impeccably. This is
quite different than the drugs issue, to be frank. Recall the last
time you had too much to drink and how you felt the next morning.
Had you been in at work that morning, how would be your performance?
Have you ever had a really heated domestic fight and gone in to work
and been very absent minded? So many things can affect work performance
and the ultimate question is whether or not the person is a professional.

I do not make mistakes like that in my profession. It is a matter of
professional impeccability and you pay me in my field, much as a brain
surgeion in his/her field, to do a job without error... no matter how
i feel, what domestic argument's i've had, or what i've been up to
in my private time. If you have a mechanic who puts control rods in
backwards, then that is a serious dereliction of duty and you should
relieve him/her... no matter about drugs.

I find that professional trust and confidence is the best way to inspire
people to do "perfect" work. Trust and goodwill are much more powerful
motivators than the threat of a drugs test. I've never had a problem
when running engineering teams with people failing to be impeccable,
it is a reflection of the management.

A bad mechanic will always have an excuse as to why he/she put the
rod in backwards. A good one will simply do the job right, and
never make an excuse no matter what the conditions. Conditioning
a good employee, is never achieved with the stick/carrot.. rather
pay incentives are designed around perfect performance, and work is
double checked as a matter of quality verification, that everyone is
able to trust that they look out for each other, that the whole
operation works spoot on.

My operation will get the mechanics who hate being drugs testted even
if they are not using drugs.... i'll get the smart ones who hate
being invaded, who'd rather be trusted as professionals... you
discount this major factor in your liability analysis.