When I was in college working a work study program my boss was so cool. He didn't just show you how to do the work around the college he did it too right down to dancing with the vaccuum cleaner. So anyway one day a call came in from my abusive family Im sitting listening and trying to get my new registration forms sorted he saw I was getting upset and wrote on a paper "who is it?" I wrote back parents and turned on speaker, soon He bellowed for their benefit " ____this isnt a social hour get off that damn phone and go set up classroom number two". It took everything for me not to laugh and say "I have to go into the phone" When I got off the phone he said "With parents like that I'd be in therapy" I laughed and sad "doing it. and told him who my therapist was" From that day on he was like a big brother watching over me. I'd come in beat up and he'd point across the road to "Joan's" office and I knew if I didn't go he'd call her and she'd be walking in the door in five seconds flat. If I was having a hard day pulling it together he pitched right in helping me get the work done. I remember this one day I was a total basket case I no more than sat down and there was a soda and breakfast from the restraunt down the street. When I asked him what needed to be done that day he said my job that day was to monitor the lounge and gave me a list of shows on various channels that needed recording for some class professors. All I had to do that day was keep the coffee pot filled and VCR running. The rest of the time was mine to do what I wanted.

Ive had my fill of jerks for bosses too. One time my parents found me and showed up at a department store I worked in. They weren't doing anything wrong, just making their presence known to me by walking around my department. I couldn't concentrate even though all I had to do was stock shelves that day. My boss comes down out of the video room and told me I was fired. If prospective customers made me that nervious while they are window shopping his store was not where I needed to be. I tried to explain and he cut me off saying "no excuses go!" I left. At another place I was having a hard day with flashbacks and a boss told me he didn't need any mental cases working for him If I didn't pull it together ASAP I was fired. At the end of the day I was told don't come back.

I have found that a majority of employers don't care if I had a mental problem or what that was. I was there to do a job and they weren't there to babysit me. Just like people without a mental disorder I was expected to get the job done with out using my problems as excuses for not getting that work done.

The way most employers in my life saw it as The American Disabilities Act says I am entitled to work without my disabilities - mental or physical being a factor otherwise its considered discrimination, so its not fair for me to expect them to hire me regardless of disability and then turn around and use disability as a factor for not doing my job. Employers are not allowed (though some have been nice to do so) to take into consideration my disabilites just my work performance. If my work performance does not live up to expections I'm fired plain and simple.