drug/alcohol testing policy: effective?

"Chip Jones" wrote in message news:b4mwd.1157

Hey man, no offence taken. Sorry you didn't pick up one the semantics in
my
reply about drinking, smoking and boxing. I actually AM an arrogant
prick,
but you don't have to worry about getting in an airplane with me.

LOL! I have no idea how to respond to that. Hey, peeeace, maaaaan.

People entrust their lives to me every day. I'm an air traffic
controller.

Keep 'em flying.

-c

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:57:49 -0800, "gatt"
wrote in ::

I sure wouldn't have anything to do with
you in the cockpit, though.

If you're ever flying in the Atlanta area, you may have Chip in your
cockpit despite your best efforts; he's an air traffic controller
there.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message

If you're ever flying in the Atlanta area, you may have Chip in your
cockpit despite your best efforts; he's an air traffic controller
there.

Chip and I are on opposite ends of the continent, then. Despite our
difference, I think we have one thing in common: I certainly wouldn't want
a pilot or controller operating under the influence of -ANY- impairing
circumstance, whether it's alcohol, pot, speed, Benadryl, lack of sleep, a
bitchy wife or a plain ol' short attention span.

What Chip does off the job is his business.

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
Chip and I are on opposite ends of the continent, then. Despite our
difference, I think we have one thing in common: I certainly wouldn't
want
a pilot or controller operating under the influence of -ANY- impairing
circumstance, whether it's alcohol, pot, speed, Benadryl, lack of sleep, a
bitchy wife or a plain ol' short attention span.

What Chip does off the job is his business.

His point is that it is your business. Everybody's business. Not his
business.

moo

Chip Jones wrote:



I know, quite literally, over five hundred controllers. I have also served
as a union drug testing rep for NATCA. I am saying that this opinion is the
overwhelming consensus on this in 100% of the controllers whose hands I held
while they were peeing in a bottle. How about you, Spiccoli?


You guys need to reread the drug test regs. We get to go in the
bathroom alone up here. No hand holding needed.