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Quote From: carpeomnius

Part of the things people look at when they are trying to find employees are character, personality...and not just past job performance. When you work for a company, at least in some capacity, you are a representative of that specific company. I'm sure most employers would not want somebody who takes illegal drugs into their system to be a representative of their company. It makes their entire company look bad, especially if they have been proven to take a blind eye towards illegal-drug users who work for them. It is also ridiculous to compare taking illegal drugs into your body and, say, going 5 or so miles over the speed limit. If you, as an employer, hear one of your workers speaking of having sexual intercourse with his wife on the job, then of course you should take appropriate action, whether that be to warn him not to use that language or whatever. However, this all depends on your standards and your company's standards. Perhaps you work at an adult sex toy shop? Then it might be appropriate, in your view, to have such discussions among employees, etc. But most stand-up and respectable work places will not approve of such discussions in the context of on-the-job communications, nor do I believe they should. Perhaps a sensitive customer over-heard such discussions and decided not to shop at that place anymore? That's at least one lost customer because of the foul speech of an employee who is supposed to be representing his or her company.