Expanded Drug and Alcohol Testing
Hmmm...
So the blow and pee tests will now be expanded to include testing for antidepressants. Fine in itself - probably not a good thing to be taking without medical supervision.
But it's an interesting move. "Following recent events" would seem to indicate that there have been discoveries of people self-medicating for depression. Pity the individual who, suffering from depression, is too fearful of the EK doctors that they take it upon themselves to try and treat themselves?! Or perhaps they ARE taking the meds under supervision from the doc in their home country, but don't wish the grubby EK clinic to know? Do they really think that this will encourage depression sufferers to come forward? Now they will simply go undiagnosed and untreated. Progress!
If that isn't a tad disturbing, or illustrative of the current state of affairs at EK - what is? In the wake of the Germanwings tragedy it really is astounding.
And I certainly cannot think of any better adjective to describe the rostering these days than "depressing". (Although there are other good words as well, such as "unsafe", "unreasonable", "unsustainable"...)