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FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime
An anonymous reader writes "The rate of cybercrime is growing and growing, and law enforcement is struggling to keep up. The FBI is in the process of beefing up its headcount, but they're running into a problem: many of the hackers applying for these jobs have a history of marijuana use, and the agency has a zero tolerance policy. FBI Director James Comey said, 'I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview.' However, change may be on the horizon: Comey said the FBI is changing 'both our mindset and the way we do business.' He also encouraged job applications from former pot users despite the policy."
Big government always likes people that have physical and/or psychological dependencies. Easier to manipulate.
I've never seen a pothead do anything useful with a computer.
> potheads...never amount to anything
That is true. I'm a Senior Director of Product Development, and out of the (wild guess) six hundred guys I've hired that made it past our screening process, I've only lost one to the drug test. Drug addicts just don't make good developers. Also while I've fired quite a few guys for DUIs or other alcohol-related charges, I have never had a developer arrested for a drug-related charge(well, that I know of) On the other hand, I've probably had 5% of the QA candidates washout because of failing the drug test and quite a few that had been fired due to drug-related arrests. A drug addict might be able to do QA, but I have never seen one that could do development.
Oh look at me I smoke pot I smoke pot I smoke pot everybody I smoke pot!!! Look at me! Look at me! ME MEMEMEMEMEMEME dreamchaser!!! I smoke pot!
Oh, I earn six figures! ME ME ME MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME DREAMCHASTER MEMEMEMEME LOOK AT ME!
... i smoke pot, i make 6 figures have a family and kids. I have many friends who smoke pot, they include directors ...
Ah, yes, this is something I have been meaning to talk to you about. You see, one of the terrible, terrible consequences of smoking The Evil Weed is that you get these vivid delusions ... If you didn't do that, you would realize that you actually lying on a filthy rag in a basement somewhere, while rats eat away your shrunken genitals.