dissembling hard

I’m not sure if I’m getting this right, but they basically had you… fired for what is in, at least in a bunch of places as far as I know, considered a medically and legally supported substance? As in simply THC/cannabis/weed, whatever one calls it, which seems to be far less dangerous than the normal kind of smoking or drinking? On a break of all things? And as far as I know, here in my state, well, absolutely no one cares whether you smell like it or not, whether you use it or not, not only because nobody knows your own individual situation and/or medical history, but because it literally is by the book more tame compared to what society normalizes and is usually legally obtained as far as I know nowadays.

I hope it’s at least clear that most people rationally should not be reporting you for such a thing, because obviously in this instance I feel like they were out to get you from the start if it’s over something that small. That is definitely not about whatever you were doing at that point, but rather them playing by whatever books are available in order to get into a position of immediate power over you (from my perspective), which is especially audacious of them. Especially. I’m not even sure how people think of doing that to other people, specifically in terms of what they gain from that. The kind of move that’s equivalent to holding one in a figurative sort of gun point for no reason, in the slightest, no benefit, nothing to be built out of it, even in terms of purely self related reasons, it makes no sense. Never will I’d bet, it’s just completely irrational. What the hell do their lives even look like at that point with that sort of behavior? I couldn’t even guess, that’s the kind of wild card (besides the bad intentions remaining consistent I assume, although I can’t necessarily say for certain who people are outside of myself) you’d be playing with. Especially confusing.

And yeah, speaking of which, it’s also especially confusing that we’ve had so many advertisements for tobacco related products and all that, and we have teenagers vaping and all that, which is considered much worse to weed at least in terms of the detrimental effects I’d imagine, and yet it is normalized so much more in comparison? Drinking is normalized so much more in comparison? Don’t get me wrong, all substances should be taken with a grain of salt, but still, HOW? There’s a tobacco industry, an alcohol industry, but NOTHING in terms of cannabis? Are said industries even built off of anything, or is this actually just a matter of advertising at such a rate? I mean, anything related to the companies that produce candy and especially sugar loaded brands of soda (Pepsi or Coca-Cola or A&W, whatever it is, pick your literal poison) obviously fall under those lines too in a sense, except well, it’s being given to kids way before middle school, most likely, unfortunately. It’s just especially missing the point to have all of these industries and related companies still standing, meanwhile they demonize cannabis of all things. The priorities are clearly elsewhere in terms of what is most beneficial for society to limit and get rid of, and yet they fire someone for the use of cannabis. This cannot be happening… and yet unfortunately it is.

Not a user of anything above myself except for quite bad cooking and improper usage of sugar, but either way, apologies you had to go through that, if they actually saw that as a “proper” reason for firing someone it’s probably best to find someone else in the first place. You are of course finding (hopefully) better company now rather than later, but I know it doesn’t change the fact that they rocked your boat in a figurative sense. Any period of unemployment especially when people can, at a bunch of times, live paycheck to paycheck, is not desirable to be in.