Would you feel sorry for this guy?

[Napoleon]

Somewhat. I certainly would if he failed a drug test from use outside of work.

[Napoleon]

See what I don't get about this stuff is if the issue is not wanted a supposedly inebriated employee on site why not just send them home and count it as an unexcused absence?

That is fair.

[Napoleon]

Yes, but ultimately management has a right to do this sort of thing.

Precisely!  This is precisely the problem and what is wrong with america.  If the job were properly unionized and regulated, so that they would have to give him six months salary, they might not be so whimsical in their destruction of people's lives.

How is it in the union's best interest to allow people to get six months' salary for being let go for smoking pot?  Then other union members end up having to work harder to essentially subsidize the fired worker's pay.

I'd love to know where that six months months salary is going to come from.

you.