@lyndal1838 wrote:
I see that as the blind applicant just looking for a fight.
If a job requires the applicant to have a driver's licence then why would a blind person even think of applying?
It reminds me of an applicant for a job where I was working.....my job. To get into the building there were 3 steep steps and once inside there were various levels in the showroom involving one or two steps. And finally the job entailed going down very steep steps into the basement where the goods were packed.
This was back in the 1970s when very few buildings catered for wheelchairs....and certainly not the very old building where we were.
The wheelchair bound applicant was very annoyed when she was told she was not suitable. Even if she had help to get into the building she could not move freely around the showroom and certainly could not go downstairs, even with help.....and the ladies toilet was down there.
There are still a lot of buildings out there that are not wheelchsir friendly. I worked for many years in old buildings. One was three storeys and the lift frequently broke down and it would take days to get it fixed. The last building I worked in - and even the one before it - was not originally built for offices and it had single steps everywhere, stairs with no lift and some narrow doorways.
Where I worked there were a lot of young people and a few of them from what I had heard saw my increasing health issues as an imposition to the work place. that was all my own fault. It wasn't, but they didn't get the whole story, and of course I was 'old' by their standards which didn't help. I was assessed that though I could still do my job, I was unable to drive and there were still the issues with access. Reluctantly the doctor recommended retirement....and in the end I had to agree. I still dream about my job sometimes.
I wonder what the official definition of disabled/disability is sometimes I know of one group that do not see themselves disabled when govt guidelines say otherwise. Am I now disabled? For me my mobility issues are due to age and apparently dodgy genes, and it is only in my later years that the problem has arisen. I would describe myself as decrepit. 🙂 Disabled seems like appropriating a term that for most of my life would never have applied and I don't feel entitled to use.
