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goldpony

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I was wondering where should I go to get help for finding a job? Texas Rehabilitation won't help as long as I still have a job. They'll talk to my boss about help me out with the phone situation but my supervisor is too hard to work with and also not an easy person to get along either. She's horrible. My boss is also her finances.
They don't want anything to do with the ADA or anyone who wants to help me to get a better advocation. I don't know what else to do but to find another job. I've look in the newspapers but there's anything.
Anything will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Lauria
 
Lauria, it’s literally a crime (in some instances) that ADA is ignored by some businesses, even by those that are under ADA regulations.

Have you applied for federal mediation, not just help from the state? You may have a cause for complaint based on your antagonistic supervisor being the fiancée of the boss. I was briefly in a similar situation with a small company under International Standards Organization (ISO) regulations but chose which standards to follow based on relationships. State help was a joke.

It took a couple of months of constant looking, but I found a better job where the owners lived diversity, only not because it was regulated by the government.
 
I meant to say that I've look in the newspapers everyday and there isn't anything for me. What's exactly is an ISO?
 
A lot of job vacancies aren't posted in the papers. Many companies now do their hiring thru the state employment office.

If you want a better job it seems like your rehab counselor should do more.
 
she made it sound like it was hopeless. She asked if I tried contacting the Employment Commission or look in the papers. I have told her several times that I was totally unhappy with my job and I know there are alot of discrimination going on at work but I can't prove it. I can't afford to quit though.
 
goldpony said:
she made it sound like it was hopeless. She asked if I tried contacting the Employment Commission or look in the papers. I have told her several times that I was totally unhappy with my job and I know there are alot of discrimination going on at work but I can't prove it. I can't afford to quit though.
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Pooey! It sounds like she is hopeless! She's in the wrong business with that attitude. You might have to go to her supervisor.

...or send her to me and I'll slap her around a little, heh, heh.

...and then send me your boss and supervisor. :twisted:
 
goldpony said:
I meant to say that I've look in the newspapers everyday and there isn't anything for me. What's exactly is an ISO?
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International Standards Organization (ISO) sets quality standards (on several levels, depending on the ISO number). For instance, the company I worked for assembled sterile surgical medical packs for hospitals and private doctors.

So far, the advice has been to keep your present job while searching the want ads, but push your state job counselor. If you're not getting help from one, ask to see another, maybe at another state office. I did all those while visiting the employment office once a week to copy help-wanted bulletins on the board. Help-wanted boards are other places, too, like libraries and supermarkets.

I also let my local friends know I was looking for different employment. One said a beekeeper needed help honey extracting and lab work. When I told him I was deaf, I thought I'd lost the job, but when he asked if I could teach everyone sign so they would stop yelling over the machinery and buzzing, I knew I was home.

Keep looking to get out of the job where you're not valued.
 
Chase said:
...So far, the advice has been to keep your present job while searching the want ads, but push your state job counselor. If you're not getting help from one, ask to see another, maybe at another state office....
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It depends on the state. At each of our state employment offices there is one counselor designated the VR counselor for all deaf/hoh clients. (The counselor is always hearing and someone who learned a few dozen signs, so they're "specialists" for deaf clients--bleh!) They have to use that one in their locality. They can go to the supervisor but they aren't allowed to go to another counselor or another office. (What a racket.)

I hope that's not the situation for goldpony.
 
Good addition, Reba. I've met some of those "deaf specialists" and agree. Bleh! I hope a deaf Texan or two will offer some home-grown helps.
 
Reba said:
It depends on the state. At each of our state employment offices there is one counselor designated the VR counselor for all deaf/hoh clients. (The counselor is always hearing and someone who learned a few dozen signs, so they're "specialists" for deaf clients--bleh!) They have to use that one in their locality. They can go to the supervisor but they aren't allowed to go to another counselor or another office. (What a racket.)

I hope that's not the situation for goldpony.
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Wow! That's a sad situation. Our local BVR office has a team of deaf specialists that are actually deaf! Our division for the deaf, and our division for the visually impaired are actually separate offices from the office that handles other disabilities.
 
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