I listened in when he was ordering one night it was pretty amusing
Pizza Hut- Thank you for calling Pizza Hut
George(Papa Johns driver)-Yeah I’d like to get a delivery please
PH-Ok where is this going to?
George- You know where the Papa Johns is down the street?
PH-yeah.
George-I want it to go there
PH-Is this a joke? We don’t have time for pranks.
George-No,no its a real order. I want a pizza and some hot wings while I’m working.
Ph- But you work at a pizza place.
George-Yeah but the pizza here sucks and we don’t have hot wings
PH-pause
George-So can you deliver my order please? I can’t leave work right now, I might have to take a delivery.
PH-ummmm… I guess, You’re sure this isn’t a joke?
George-I’m serious man, I got a craving for some hot wings. I can pay with a credit card if you want. Oh yeah when you deliver just knock on the side door.
and to Peter Morris- your username is one name off of my real full name. kind of creepy.
In high school I worked for McDonald’s, which was across the street from Burger King. Once on our lunch break, a couple of us counter gals made the mad dash across the highway to Burger King to grab a burger “our way”. Did I mention we were still in our McDonalds uniforms? The Burger King folks were THRILLED to see us 
Our manager wasn’t exactly pleased with us, but didn’t fire us. I think the only reason we got away with it was because we were young, cute, and drew alot of summer construction workers to the counter whenever we worked <g>.
Yes, well, in England you also have the dole, so I don’t think that you can exactly convince too many Americans that England’s employment situation is vastly superior. 
The way to deal with bad employers is to vote with your feet. You get a new job, in other words. In a country of 275 million people, with the largest economy in the world, it’s pretty easy to do.
I used to work for a large, local company that did not hire smokers. They made you sign a release saying that you didn’t smoke before they would hire you, and they did fire several people because it turned out they smoked outside of work and on their own time.
I always wondered at the legality of that (it stinks of discrimination to me), but I guess it’s just an extension of the Right-to-Work laws.
In that, and the situation in the OP, it resonates as wrong.
Heh, have you looked for a job lately? Particularly a job that doesn’t require a degree and doesn’t require moving across the country? Good luck finding one that doesn’t have some kooky requirement about the things you can do in your free time. A friend of mine had to pee in a cup for a telephone job, and get her mouth swabbed for a temp agency.
Let me guess: Calls were charged at $3 a minute?
There are a couple of significant differences.
First, the chemicals in marijuana can be found in your blood long after you stop smoking. You can test positive for smoking pot while on the job. If you test positive for alcohol while on the job, you will be fired, too (or at least put into a mandatory program). The difference between that and the Miller case is that no one would be able to tell what brand you drank.
Second, companies are under enormous pressure from the government to put drug-free workplace policies into action. Not doing so can cost a company tens of thousands of dollars. There is no similar pressure on Miller to ban Budweiser during an employee’s off hours.
Of course… because if you test positive for alcohol, you’re probably drunk, which is what the company really cares about. Compare that to a positive test for marijuana, which almost always indicates past use, not present intoxication.
That’s very true. But that’s why Miller’s policy is not like a drug policy. A drug policy does not care when you imbibed, only that you test positive at the time the test is given. I can’t tell you if there is an actual way to determine if someone is under the influence of marijuana, I can only say that the tests will be positive for a certain, unknown, time after use. But most drug-free workplace rules, while they do touch on certain activities (for example, if you’re arrested for marijuana possession or sale then you may be going against those rules) aren’t really interested in what you do outside of the workplace, only if there are traces of it when you show up to work.
This isn’t like Miller saying you can’t drink Bud off the job–which I consider a nasty little rule that is inappropriate (though legal).
I have switched jobs recently, and I moved across the country and THEN found a new job seven years ago. Trust me that, despite the fact that they don’t just lie around on street corners, well, at least not on most street corners, people who WISH to be employed can usually be employed, in a decent job, if they make the effort. But they’d much rather, on many occasions, simply hope for some rule or regulation that can force the employer they do have to keep them, despite the fact that they can resign anytime they damn please, for any reason they choose.
Fairness on the subject is rarely in their minds. :smack:
You must be unfamiliar with advertising.
Hmm, right now I’m working a temp job with Sirius Satellite Radio. I’m listening to XM radio online! Wonder if they’ll fire me? Oh well, only one more week here.
As long as you’re there, could you please tell Madison to stop talking about her mouth herpes on air?