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16 February 2022
Started orientation at *redacted* today.
Big company! Pays well! Interesting work!
Also contracts with and supplies the US military! yikes.
and in addition to all those moral and ethical qualms I suddenly have, /because/ they're a federal contractor, and /because/ something something War on Drugs, they do random drug testing and I am just displeased.
Spoiler: I'm overweight. THC is fat soluble. Heavy smokers with high body-mass indexes have been known to test positive for THC metabolites more than three months after cessation. What a fucked up bit of science that is!
le sigh. first world problems, i know.
I'm going to keep going there, obviously, because I live in a country that also requires you to have a certain tier of job to have healthcare, but I'm going to keep looking for a less... problematic employer. Like the Catholic Church or something.
Shoutouts to kelbot at smolZINE for verbally recognizing my coming onto the scene, it's nice to be recognized by your peers for spouting drivel into a back corner of cyberspace. You're making me seriously consider one of those Pinephones and a keyboard, friendo.