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>Awesome! I love hearing about places making the effort to be inclusive. The extent of the effort being getting their employee a slightly-more-expensive-than-a

>Awesome! I love hearing about places making the effort to be inclusive. The extent of the effort being getting their employee a slightly-more-expensive-than-average tool that would enable them to do their job better regardless of the disability? Such inclusive, much pat-yourself-on-the-back, wow. "We gave our woodworking shop employee a quality saw so that they'd make their own accessibility ramps!"

callalex 3y ago
What would you have them do instead?
- romwell 3y ago
  >What would you have them do instead? Why instead? They didn't a bad thing, just nothing beyond what the law requires.
- romwell 3y ago
  >What would you have them do instead? A simple answer for you, BTW: Pay a student $15/hr to transcribe all meetings in real time for the employee. Or pay money to professionals in the field to set up a solution. You know, people who get paid to do just that. Jesus.
qkeast 3y ago
I have literally been told in job interviews that the company would not be “allowed” to hire me because I’m hearing impaired, so yes, making an effort to support an employee’s disability and their needs is worth recognizing.
- romwell 3y ago
  >I have literally been told in job interviews that the company would not be “allowed” to hire me because I’m hearing impaired, That is literally grounds for a lawsuit. >so yes, making an effort to support an employee’s disability and their needs is worth recognizing. ...if the effort were actually made. Which is not the case. Merely being compliant with the law is a very low bar, and we should recognize that they did not do anything beyond what the ADA requires them to.
RogerL 3y ago
So what? Okay, in the case of a ramp, if you need one you probably are going to have difficulty building one. So pay employee Sally to build it instead, absolutely. But hearing loss does not impair standing up servers and software. They can pay the employee who probably is the expert at this, the guy with the hearing loss, or go task Emil to go do it to ... avoid 'appearances'?
- romwell 3y ago
  > They can pay the employee who probably is the expert at this, the guy with the hearing loss, Aaaaaaaaand who said they paid him? Not the OP, for sure. It seems like the disabled person set the system up in their own time to help the company communicate with him in meetings. >or go task Emil to go do it to ... avoid 'appearances'? They could hire Emil to live-transcribe the speech into text. They could hire the services of a professional company that would set up speech recognition for their meetings. They could have done a lot of things. What they did is nothing. Gee, a software company gave their employee a laptop, how totally unheard of! Why are people here so willing to pass this off as some act of charity?

callalex 3y ago

What would you have them do instead?

romwell 3y ago
>What would you have them do instead? Why instead? They didn't a bad thing, just nothing beyond what the law requires.
romwell 3y ago
>What would you have them do instead? A simple answer for you, BTW: Pay a student $15/hr to transcribe all meetings in real time for the employee. Or pay money to professionals in the field to set up a solution. You know, people who get paid to do just that. Jesus.

qkeast 3y ago

I have literally been told in job interviews that the company would not be “allowed” to hire me because I’m hearing impaired, so yes, making an effort to support an employee’s disability and their needs is worth recognizing.

romwell 3y ago
>I have literally been told in job interviews that the company would not be “allowed” to hire me because I’m hearing impaired, That is literally grounds for a lawsuit. >so yes, making an effort to support an employee’s disability and their needs is worth recognizing. ...if the effort were actually made. Which is not the case. Merely being compliant with the law is a very low bar, and we should recognize that they did not do anything beyond what the ADA requires them to.

RogerL 3y ago

So what? Okay, in the case of a ramp, if you need one you probably are going to have difficulty building one. So pay employee Sally to build it instead, absolutely. But hearing loss does not impair standing up servers and software. They can pay the employee who probably is the expert at this, the guy with the hearing loss, or go task Emil to go do it to ... avoid 'appearances'?

romwell 3y ago
> They can pay the employee who probably is the expert at this, the guy with the hearing loss, Aaaaaaaaand who said they paid him? Not the OP, for sure. It seems like the disabled person set the system up in their own time to help the company communicate with him in meetings. >or go task Emil to go do it to ... avoid 'appearances'? They could hire Emil to live-transcribe the speech into text. They could hire the services of a professional company that would set up speech recognition for their meetings. They could have done a lot of things. What they did is nothing. Gee, a software company gave their employee a laptop, how totally unheard of! Why are people here so willing to pass this off as some act of charity?