Hey @Crook32
Another thing I thought of is how your performance will be judged. If you make a mistake and you did not share your issues with anyone- its just an employee who needs to make improvements. If do really great then you are an employee who deserves recognition.
Now lets say they do know of the issues and you do a really good job at something . I feel that your recognition could be less genuine or jaded almost like" I cant believe Mr X worked that out considering he has this XYZ disability". Or "For someone with XYZ he really kept it togther".
Or if an employee is doing a terrible job and they have disclosed their issues and you work with that employee and have an issue with them so you report it to your boss. The boss would normally intervene and redirect an employee or even reprimand them but they are aware of an issue and treat them differently so you then have to suffer an accept it and probably end up fixing their mess. Do you know what I mean? I want you to be evaluated becaue YOU did a good job. I wouldnt want your success to be tarnished in anyway or invalidated because you have a disability.
But to be clear if you absolutely require modifications to work or you will have zero success with the job or cant do the job with out modifications then you have to say something. But I speak from experience that when I have disclosed certain things thinking I was protected or sharing something in order to do a better job- Ive been let go or overlooked or thought of as incapable and all the employer has to do is make up another reason.
Here is something I thought of:
I used to be very overweight. I was hired at a law firm as a semi-receptionist/assistant. They obviously knew I had a weight issue. I worked for six weeks total. One day I heard a visiting lawyer in the back kitchen basically making fun of me and telling the main lawyer that I was not making a good impression or doing the law firm any favors. The next morning was pay day and my boss let me go. I actually cried and asked him why- he kept saying "it just didnt work out" There were no reasons and no references to my job performance and he didnt know what I overheard. I know being overweight is not like your disability or anything like that. But he fired me because he was told I somehow made the firm look bad and he didnt want to get in trouble so he made up a reason.
I was very young, like 23 and had no idea about what was right and wrong. I was like traumatized and so hurt and self depreciating because of that.
__________________
"I carried a watermelon?"
President of the no F's given society.
|