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Complaint Review: Half Price Books

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  • Submitted: Friday, May 29, 2009
  • Last Posting: Wednesday, October 05, 2011
  • Reported By:Dallas Texas
Half Price Books
5803 East Northwest Highway Dallas Texas 75231 U.S.A.

Half Price Books drug testing needed Dallas Texas

*Consumer Comment: The rights of druggies? Please....


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I've been an employee of Half Price Books and am just now quitting due to a desire to move up to bigger and better things. Something needs to be done about the employee drug use in that company. Working with individuals who come to work high is not something I've enjoyed. I've not done drugs and nor do I feel I need to. But in this company they do not do drug testing and for good reason because I know several managers who are drug dealers and supply weed to the employees on a regular basis. Some employee's have bragged to me about serious drugs they've used to get high and I really can't understand how these things have gone unnoticed for so long by the authorities! The employee's of this store are generally a rather bohemian group of ragged looking workers which I suppose adds to the quirkiness of the place. The wages are terrible and the majority of the staff who work there also have to work two or more other jobs just to survive! 'Boots' the lovable lady who runs the whole opperation comes in frequently with her young son but still she does nothing about the obvious drug use in the place! Crystal the new store manager for the Flagship store is an idiot and only got the position because she's related to Judy in Corporate. The majority of the staff are related to someone of power in the corporate offices which makes things tricky if you are a regular employee and wish to make a complaint about another employee! The books and shelves are never dusted and you can find thick blankets of dust lying over the books in various sections. The low paid employee's are expected to also muck out the toilets in the store during a shift and I can tell you that I've had to clean up piles of poo from the floor and seats of the toilets which by the way is not listed in the job description or employee manuel! People rave about the amazing benefits the company offers to its employee's which is something that is good about the place....and could be better if the employee's earned more than minimum wage or didn't work all night shifts or was expected to clean crappy toilets or take daily abuse from rude customers. There are on duty police officers who roam the store during open hours but how they can't spot the high employee's I do not know! I would love to see what a surprise drug test would produce and reveal! I imagine it would result in a mass emptying of the store's current employee's.

Half price employee
Dallas, Texas
U.S.A.

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#1 Consumer Comment

no drug testing

AUTHOR: Beatnikjd - wynnewood (U.S.A.)

I am always glad to hear of a company that does not engage in the violation of privacy rights known as drug testing. Drug testing by its very nature is designed to catch users of a harmless plant while heroin coke and meth users remain undetected by most tests. Drug testing should only be for cause and not random. Maybe a few people are willing to sacrifice their rights but I am not. Kudos to this company for refusing to engage in fascist testing policies!

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#2 Consumer Comment

They Must Be High on Something to Low Ball Me so Bad on my Books

AUTHOR: Helene - Elgin (U.S.A.)

I had the same feeling when I shopped at several of the Austin Half-Price Books stores. They must have been high to offer me those rip-off prices that they did.

Bet you didn't know that it is store policy for those employees to not be allowed to sit down for their entire shift. No wonder they are such snots.

And I guess you have to be high to put up with the **** that everybody dishes out to you on a regular basis there --from the public, other employees and I bet it gets really bad when one of the Lords or Ladies of Nepotism has a relative or friend who needs a job and they decide your job  is the one that their crony needs to have.

Benefits? What benefits? I have yet to hear any of the people who worked at the Half-Price Books bazaar talk about benefits but they sure do complain and smoke a loot of dope at the dumpsters. This is Austin and people are supposed to smoke weed here.

That this happens in Dallas is surprising to me. Town has changed since I have been gone.

The cop is being paid to bust shoplifters, throw out and/ or arrest people who make a disturbance in the business and as a deterrent to robbery. They are renting his badge, uniform, gun and radio ability to get fast response and they are renting his car -- they are not renting his law enforcement or narcotics busting expertise. If the cop hassled the wrong people, he or she does not get their great off-duty pay, And just might get blackballed for future, lucrative off-duty jobs, Besides, it is not worth it to bust a petty drug user because it is just a Class C misdemeanor  nowadays and most cops I know let it slide...It is a victimless crime.

drop-outs and beatnicks and non-conformist and students have to have a job too.

I haven't gone to a Half-Price books for nearly two years or more because I got tired of them yentzing me --taking my books and whatever else I had and not giving me any money at all because I had "Donated" them.

Let them dope it up and steal them out of business for all I care.

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#3 Consumer Comment

The rights of druggies? Please....

AUTHOR: I am the law - Chicago (USA)

The only people that whine about drug tests are people that do drugs. Here's a solution; quit breaking the law and get sober. You talk about the "rights of druggies"... well, what about my rights as a non-druggie? Other people shouldn't have to worry about some stoner drifting off and hitting them with a forklift or a crazed junkie killing everyone and stealing cash from the register when they can't get their fix. It goes without saying that a drug-free workplace will have a better chance of prospering without these losers. Ask yourself, wouldn't you want assurance that your doctor wasn't high on marijuana if you were getting surgery? Wouldn't you want to know that the pilot of your plane wasn't jacked up on cocaine?

Come on.... let's get real here.
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