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Have you tried looking for a better employer? The teams I've worked with wouldn't have had any problems accommodating you.
Given I can’t manage a 40-hour work week to start with, looking for a job while I have a job isn’t doable. That said, I’m available if someone wants a senior rails dev. :)
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Parking lot? A truely motivated employee who cares about his job will sleep on a bedroll stored neetly under their desk. Mobility is only an issue for those slackers who choose to spend time away from the office. (I say this as i, in all honesty, will be sleeping on a couch at work this christmas. Im in the military. There are some few jobs that require literally sleeping in your office and i was just volunteered/vol…
Lmao, I remember pulling sdo over thnaksgiving. Best. Shift. Ever.
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There is always someone who is worse off than you are. If the rules say you are sufficiently disabled to get accommodations, you are. You don't abuse the system by following them.
That isn't really true. The system that is strict enough that you cannot abuse the system is the system so strict that many people who should get help are unable to get it. Particularly if the disability has a mental component, the disabled may unable to navigate a complex system that can keep out those who are faking it. Even if you have a system that manages that: the system itself is so expensive because of fraud…
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Oh, definitely "Jedi". ;)
Not an admirable example: a genetically determined group who are given special extrajudicial powers of life and death and their own legislature and courts simply due to an accident of birth. The Harry Potter books mix this same trope in with a dash of Kipling as they look down upon and try to be paternal towards the mass of “Muggles”. Revolting! Not something I would be willing to support, myself. Though its populari…
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Four hours seems like a realistic estimate for daily commute time for a SF SV round-trip pre-COVID, especially on public transit. I did the same, it was 3-3.5 hours by car, and 4 by MUNI/Caltrain/Shuttle. If I lived closer to Caltrain in the city, it would have helped a lot.
I had a 3-4 hour commute on public to my minimum wage job that was a 5 minute drive away. I can't imagine wasting that much time even if I made 2-500k or more a year. What's money without the time to enjoy it?
Can anyone comment as to how this question on employment application forms affects employability with regard to U.S. government/public sector and private sector jobs? The conventional wisdom is that "this information is optional and does not count toward eligibility", but this doesn't make sense; why would they ask this question on literally _every_ job application if it was optional and doesn't count toward anything…
Long time ago I worked in a small company were they hired a deaf girl as a trainee. One might think that it's so nice that they give disabled persons a chance (in her case the inability to hear unfortunately affected her ability to read as well, to the point that my boss discouraged me from teaching her the use of e-mail) however the company received some 100 grand/a (a lot of doe in Germany then) from the government for her professional development, so the company gained a little even if she wasn't all that productive. I don't think the company had any intention to hire her afterwards.
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I had to break it to a teen with epilepsy whose goal in life was to be a pilot, "The FAA medical will reject you, but maybe you can work in an FBO or other aviation business." (He wasn't interested in flying a desk.) In aviation, anything related to loss of consciousness (LoC) is automatically disqualifying. You can get a special issuance for most other health problems (cancer, high blood pressure, sometimes diabetes…
Oof, this hits close to home. I was working towards being a fighter pilot until I was told by a recruiter in no uncertain terms that having a visual impediment disqualified me irrevocably. I've moved on to other aspirations but damned if I'm not a little bitter around military aerospace hardware.
Note that if you wash out in the Navy, there's a lot of crappy jobs you can be assigned to.
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The author mentions problems with speech processing, speaking, sensory overload, sleeping, getting out of bed, eating, smells, textures, and navigation. None of those problems were created by society Your understanding of the neurodiversity movement isn't correct. Neither the article nor the movement in general claims that society "created" her difficulty performing those things. The neurodiversity movement points ou…
> It says that autism and other behavioral health issues are not necessarily inherently "bad" (just as being in a wheelchair is not inherently bad) but we fail as a society when fail to accommodate such folks. You know, when I put on ramp for someone with wheelchair, it is done. It takes some space, alright, but mostly does not affect healthy peoples days. When I am yelled at and get insulted by an autistic because I…
There are plenty of autists who go through life without 'yelling at and insulting' people.
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> submitting sick days without notice Who the hell knows when they're going to be sick? I've never heard of such a thing.
Well, if you get a common cold, then sometimes you can feel whether it is manageable, or starts getting worse. Then you'll have a whole working day, where you are functioning at like 50% capacity, and at least you can pass on your work which might block others to a colleague. In my experience most of the time this is the case. Reporting in sick in the morning all the time can be quite distruptive in some jobs. If I w…