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and no one irl even has the decency to agree with me because it's so fucking drilled into the culture that these fucking BuNsInNesSes have a Right to do this because it's a bSUsniEss. like oh yeah they have an office building so they definitely get to analyze my piss because they say they want to. sick fucking freaks.

preaching to the choir a bit on lemmy (or i would hope so at least) but still

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Random tests are used as discriminatory and prejudicial testing.

They are never actually random.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My union pays you $100 if you get hit with a random. They're also the ones who issue them. Not my employer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is kinda nice

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a very easily solvable problem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless your idea is to use a daily meeting where a d100 is rolled ro determines who is tested today in front of everyone you cannot really rule out any suspicion for bias.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You just came up with a single super simple way to do it. I'm sure there's loads of other solutions that offer similar sort of randomness with more convenience.

And remember, we're comparing this to people asking to be tested on a hunch. Do you not think these randomness measures are better for fighting bias and discrimination, or is the issue that you can't have 100% always free of bias randomness?