Mortaine’s Blog

It has been 6 weeks since my most recent round of submissions went out, and I haven’t received any rejections.

The discussion on drug screening has been insightful and interesting, and is helping me form my own opinion on the subject.

In 16 years of employment, including jobs where I operated heavy machinery with small children on it, I have never been asked to take a drug test. I am currently applying for jobs where it seems to be a prerequisite to employment, something that saddens me and brings me to confront this question. After all, if the pay is good and I need to make the mortgage, how long am I willing to stand on that line, anyway?

Your answers to my question have been thought-provoking and have helped me. I don’t know that I’ve formed a complete opinion on this subject, but at least I’m better informed about the differing rationales than I was before, and that’s never a waste of time.

So, thank you all for responding and for thinking about the question and for generally helping me think about it.

I lost all the email that was in my personal email account’s Inbox on my Mac.

That’s about 400 messages, and is due to the stupid way Mac’s Mail.app handles account deletion and conflicting accounts.

In removing the headers, I find that most were either newsletters or receipts, so I’m not crying over the loss. There were about 3 emails from people I wanted to follow up later with, and a bunch of emails with attachments.

Bah. At least my inbox is clean now.

Edit to add: The biggest loss is my Sent email, which accounts for all the email I’ve sent from that account in the last 3 years or so, and represents a huge history of communication for me. At least I can restore some of that from backup, but the backup is pretty old.

Which I guess means that you should all consider today to be “Official Backup Your Email and Working Folders Day!”