Another ADA case to go before the Supreme Court. Should a rehabilitated drug user be allowed to sue for discrimination under the act when his former employer refused to rehire him?
I know I'm going to get yelled at, but, NO, NO, NO.
You do the drugs, you get caught, you lose employers trust. Not just that, you're not disabled. Doing drugs is a choice, not something you're stuck with due to accident or birth. You're addicted, too bad. I'm sick and tired of people like this man who decide they're disabled because they have an addiction. Well, you started it. The money they get they don't deserve. Why? Because people with real disabilities are the ones who need it, the ones who get cheated out of it to help pay some loser who did coke and now thinks he needs protection because he's so-called disabled. No, you're a loser, and had you stayed away from the stuff you'd be just fine. Your're not the victim, you're the idiot.
An employer has every right not to rehire you. Why? You lied. You used drugs and got caught red handed. How dare you use the ADA to try and reclaim a job you don't deserve. It's like asking an employer to rehire you after you embezzled $1 million dollars. Who cares if you went to rehab to teach you that your compulsive tendencies to steal were wrong, and now you won't do it again. That's your fault, and it's against public policy to require any employer to rehire an employee based on the ADA or anything else. Not just that, it hurts business. I mean, what's to say he won't do coke again, or whatever drug it was. It puts the business at risk, and it can put people at risk depending on what that job is.
Stop abusing the ADA, own up to your own mistakes, and look for a job somewhere else.
