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torrilin:
bomberqueen17:
Sigh. I forgot my cellphone at home. I know it’s on the couch. I know I meant to pick it up. I just didn’t.
Mostly, nobody texts me, and it’s no big deal, but just watch today be a day some emergency happens and nobody can figure out why I don’t care. *eyeroll*
Today being June 1 it is also the day we are allowed access to the possible new space my camera store job might be relocating to. See, there are two locations for the store locally, one right near my house and one half an hour away, and when I first went to apply, I got my application all ready and was about to go drop it off at the one near my house when I realized that the job posting actually was for the one half an hour away. Figuring I could always transfer later, I hauled my butt allllll the way out to the middle of nowhere.
That was 2007, and i never did transfer. I have worked a few shifts at the one near my house, but– the online department is run out of the one far away, and i wriggled my way into the online department because they got to sit down sometimes, and i wanted to try that.
Keep reading
A lot of disability access depends on your local disabled community having access to an activist lawyer who can run the civil lawsuits to force businesses to obey ADA regs. For reals. These sorts of suits have to be done on a pro bono basis for the lawyer, so that’s always fun. The lawyer has to make enough money off other cases to afford the pro bono time for the disability cases.
So if there’s any way you can push for a more accessible space, it makes a difference. More ramps, doors that aren’t made of hate, bathrooms where you don’t have to fall off the toilet to reach the toilet paper…
And honestly if your area has an activist lawyer, the list of targets is so damn long that your job isn’t gonna hit the top without good reason. Lots of reasons. And the bathrooms are probably the most important reason. Basic safety equipment like hand rails are up there too.
(Now if I could just figure out what the EU equivalent of the ADA is…)
Well, I’m not going to sue my employer for not having an accessible space… but. I don’t want us to put merchandise or host events in the inaccessible area. It matters, and it’s not right that people should have to complain before it matters. (And isn’t it the case now that even if someone sues, the business now has this unreal length of time to respond? I thought they just fucked that law over somewhere, but I don’t know it for sure.)
Anyway. So I’m going to try to make sure we only put stuff up there that mostly employees are going to want to access. I don’t know what else I can really do, but I figure if I keep mentioning it, that’s better than just nobody thinking about it.
I might push them to consider accessibility for classes. Even something like noting on the sign advertising classes that we can accommodate accessibility requirements and to ask us in advance is better than just a sign saying ‘classes upstairs’, right??
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torrilin:
bomberqueen17:
Sigh. I forgot my cellphone at home. I know it’s on the couch. I know I meant to pick it up. I just didn’t.
Mostly, nobody texts me, and it’s no big deal, but just watch today be a day some emergency happens and nobody can figure out why I don’t care. *eyeroll*
Today being June 1 it is also the day we are allowed access to the possible new space my camera store job might be relocating to. See, there are two locations for the store locally, one right near my house and one half an hour away, and when I first went to apply, I got my application all ready and was about to go drop it off at the one near my house when I realized that the job posting actually was for the one half an hour away. Figuring I could always transfer later, I hauled my butt allllll the way out to the middle of nowhere.
That was 2007, and i never did transfer. I have worked a few shifts at the one near my house, but– the online department is run out of the one far away, and i wriggled my way into the online department because they got to sit down sometimes, and i wanted to try that.
Keep reading
A lot of disability access depends on your local disabled community having access to an activist lawyer who can run the civil lawsuits to force businesses to obey ADA regs. For reals. These sorts of suits have to be done on a pro bono basis for the lawyer, so that’s always fun. The lawyer has to make enough money off other cases to afford the pro bono time for the disability cases.
So if there’s any way you can push for a more accessible space, it makes a difference. More ramps, doors that aren’t made of hate, bathrooms where you don’t have to fall off the toilet to reach the toilet paper…
And honestly if your area has an activist lawyer, the list of targets is so damn long that your job isn’t gonna hit the top without good reason. Lots of reasons. And the bathrooms are probably the most important reason. Basic safety equipment like hand rails are up there too.
(Now if I could just figure out what the EU equivalent of the ADA is…)
Well, I’m not going to sue my employer for not having an accessible space… but. I don’t want us to put merchandise or host events in the inaccessible area. It matters, and it’s not right that people should have to complain before it matters. (And isn’t it the case now that even if someone sues, the business now has this unreal length of time to respond? I thought they just fucked that law over somewhere, but I don’t know it for sure.)
Anyway. So I’m going to try to make sure we only put stuff up there that mostly employees are going to want to access. I don’t know what else I can really do, but I figure if I keep mentioning it, that’s better than just nobody thinking about it.
I might push them to consider accessibility for classes. Even something like noting on the sign advertising classes that we can accommodate accessibility requirements and to ask us in advance is better than just a sign saying ‘classes upstairs’, right??
(Your picture was not posted)
