does that count for everyone?

I was poking around the internets looking for some new digs and found myself looking at the one aspect of the new-press that is free to look at online...the classifieds. For some reason or another I was looking at the job postings when I came across a little add from the news-press looking for people to sell ads from already existing accounts. I thought to myself how fun would it be to get that job and start working with the various customers they already have...like my employer...and just start talking to them like such an a-hole and tell them truly how few people are actually seeing the multi-thousand dollar ads they are placing and see how many I can get to cancel before they find me out and fire me...that would be fun. My very favorite part of the whole thing though is what the ad says at the bottom:

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that supports a drug-free workplace. Offered a position with the Santa Barbara News-Press, candidates are required to pass a pre-employment drug and alcohol screening.

I am not sure but wasn't the op-ed arrested for drunk driving because he said that’s what he likes to do when he is stressed and under pressure? I may be wrong.

But I did find this in on Forbes:

This spring, Travis Armstrong was arrested for alleged drunk driving, and a brief appeared on page 3. Armstrong cried foul and accused Roberts of running a vendetta. No such thing, said Roberts: Armstrong was a public figure, a person of standing in the community, and the arrest was news. When Armstrong was sentenced, a story was written, but on orders from the top, it was killed.

and this from the LA City Beat:

When the scabrous editorial page editor, Travis Armstrong, was arrested for drunk driving and the story appeared on page three of the paper, she threw a fit, accusing Roberts and his deputies of waging a personal vendetta against Armstrong in the news pages. A news story on Armstrong’s conviction (four days in the slammer and a $1,600 fine) was killed and, since McCaw and Nipper were off to the Mediterranean on a cruise, Armstrong was named acting publisher in their absence. That was when the resignations began in earnest – also fueled by a ludicrous complaint from.

Hrmm maybe I am just a jerk...but it doesn't look to me like everyone has to pass a drug and alcohol test. Just don't be surprised when everyone who works at the news press has to have the same short hair cut, mao cap, and grey army fatigues. Kinda like this guy from N. Korea.