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I been working for a year with one of the district manager when he suddenly started treating me very different after he start yelling at me for not wearing a headset. My district manager started asking me inappropriate question that are discrimination question about my disability and then started making rude comment about my disability. The next day I was ask to speak with my store manager who had informed me that I was supposed to be fired immediately because of my hearing disabilities. I found myself constantly being chewed out for being assigned backline working on a slicer and when I wasn't being chewed out I was being physically pulled off backline and place in a position where I wasn't trained for because of my disability. I been working for a year without anyone ever informing me I was never supposed to have been hired on. I was supposed to have been fired immediately.
I been working for the past six years before being force to quit my job due to the constant discrimination and being threaten all the time. I tried applying for multiple job. I either been informed that there is no place for hearing impairment or a place for a colleges student in the workplace. Anyone ever been through this? |
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I'm sorry they treated you that way. They shouldn't be discriminating against you. This government site might be helpful to you.
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Unless a specified level of hearing ability is part of your job description...then dismissing you for your hearing disability is most certainly discriminatory. Ask your employer for a detailed list of your task requirements then take it from there. However, Dismissing someone for being unable to fulfil the tasks for which they were employed...this in itself is not discrimination.
Bullying and humiliation is unacceptable though. I hope that you are able to find employment where your skills are valued, and your work environment is more forward thinking. __________________ The devil whispered in my ear, "You cannot withstand the storm." I whispered back, "I am the storm." |
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As others have said it is discriminatory.
But I feel making comments on your disability alone is ethically wrong and should be liable with you being compensated. From here are some words of encouragement. It is not in any way related to legal system. Talking about disabilities, I am a teenager who cannot drive. Yet is forced to go to college by his family. I also have schizophrenia and it's amazing what I can do compared to another person with same disabilities, yet just average compared to a normal person. It hurts me how my father makes comments about how I should've been a "bright student." I am brilliant in my own right, brilliant as a real-life schizophrenic can be, but still do not have any friends or girlfriends for that matter. I could have been a brilliant surgeon if I didn't have any of these illnesses I have. I sometimes think I am a real life Doctor Strange. I lost most of my mental abilities and physical fitness when I was around three months old. Couple that with the most terrible parenting you can imagine of (like, parents thinking it's good to exclude their son from society because "world is evil" and then expecting him to be a class one officer) and malnutrition, psychological trauma, etc. Then you get me... simple as 1+1 = 2. I am actually a special person, special as in the case Freddy Highmore can be in his series the Good Doctor. But I still have passion for what I do. Helping others in the most scientific way possible (even if I sound ridiculous) I kind of lost my social life due to my disability and a massive part of my academic life, but I am good to go as I think the glass is half full. |
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What about reasonable accommodations? Employers are supposed to give any worker who needs them reasonable accommodations in order for them to do their job.
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Google Job Accomodation Network. That site may be able to help
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I live in the right to work state! I don't have to be hired without ever being giving a reason to why. At anytime I am hires I can be fired without giving a reason why because the law has now change.
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Did you call the HR department?
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My friend's daughter (13 yrs old) is deaf, but hears a little with hearing aids. I didn't know her when she was younger, so it has taken us time to feel safe together - to communicate as best we can. It's a journey. She is very much her own person, but obviously it's harder to be extrovert unless you can sign with others or know people well.
Your job sounds fairly brutal, and I've had a few brutal jobs despite not being deaf. Is there any place in state that helps people with disabilities find jobs with accommodations. Please forgive if I'm being naïve about how difficult this is for you but I did an internet search on places where you might find advocacy or supportive networking: Dealing With Work and Being Deaf - article written in 2018 with resources for finding work, and keeping work. Facebook networking for deaf people in Arkansas, with links to other Arkansas organisations for deaf people: Arkansas Association of the Deaf - Home | Facebook Important to have allies: sometimes in life you have to fight when you least feel up to it. When I was very sick indeed and without an income a friend forced me to fight past vomiting, no food, poverty and discrimination: she was absolutely ruthless but I will always thank her or I wouldn't be living an ok life right now. __________________ *"Fierce <-> Reality"* oh god I am struggling today, help me to remember how to stay connected and human! remember: the nut shell against human predators and my own fear! |
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Buffy01, I hope things are going ok. This site has a list of companies that have proven to be progressive towards diversity/ disability. I know most of the 50 companies are large companies that might not be in your location, but I know some of them are willing to let employees work remotely in certain situations.
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I once had a district manager ripped an application out out of my hand because I had mention of my hearing disability and some of job interview I was chewed out because I had applied to a job and was told inc couldn't be hired because they is no work place for deaf people especially because I am on disability. I don't sign very well however because of my disability I was able to help with deaf customer because I could lip read. Mostly the corporation feel than I might cause the company to be sued if i were to get hurt. |
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The only reasonable accommodation I found was being mobbed and set up.
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