Word: on-the-job
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FIRST spawned in the ghetto, drug addiction quickly spread to the middle-class suburbs, colleges and high schools. Now, in corporations across the country, the cloying whiff of marijuana in the stairwell and the hastily dumped syringe in the washroom attest to the rapid growth of on-the-job drug users...
...Hint of Quinine. Detecting the on-the-job addict is a much more ticklish task than spotting an alcoholic. The addict's symptoms-dilated eyes, shaky coordination, impaired depth perception -are not always obvious to even trained observers. Because most narcotics are illegal, company officials are cautious about accusing a worker of addiction or even examining his locker; a mistake could lead to a costly lawsuit. William Britter, security official at Western Electric's Los Angeles service center, says: "Most people will agree that employing an undercover agent or informant is the only...
Harvard has been trying for several years to improve its minority hiring program. One of the plans it set up with this end in mind was the so-called "painters helper" program. Under this system Harvard hired blacks as painters' helpers in order to give them on-the-job training to become painters. Painters' helpers received a lower wage than painters...
Dead Ends? A few companies have used Government training grants to subsidize their wage costs and have skimped on teaching. Others have used the program to recruit and hold unskilled labor in dead-end jobs. A California company, for example, contracted to give 322 hours of on-the-job training at a cost to the Government of $4,173 per man, but most of the jobs were so simple that it took only from two hours to two days to learn the routine. A Detroit manufacturer agreed to train machinists, but turned some of them into general laborers...
...Subversive Activities Control Board, which Congress set up in 1950 to force Communists to register, has become the Federal Government's best-known on-the-job retirement program. Though inspired by the McCarthy era, when it was designed as a key Red hunter, the board has never registered a single subversive, much less controlled one. Most of its activity has been confined to watching lawyers battle over its right to survive...