Follow up to yesterday.

[jackandahat]

Went back in to Remploy, turned out my adviser had had a word with the guy about the cane-snatching after I left. I told him if it happens again, I'm walking and there will be a serious complaint put in. Cane-snatcher apologised then spent the rest of the afternoon ignoring me and refusing to look at me while in the same room. (Yes, he is in fact a grown man and not a six year old. Allegedly.)

So that was sorted... and then my adviser promptly started lecturing me again on how he was sure I could use a phone if it was "Just a bit". Thing is, I know how "Just a bit" works - you start off with a little, then they go "he's coping fine, see?" and give you more, then they ask how why you're not doing your job. He also doesn't seem to understand that I'm not used to phones and I actually don't respond to them. You know how if someone calls someone else's name, you don't look up or respond because it doesn't apply to you? That's me - I'm just not used to phones, so I tend not to register they're ringing. It's a habit rather than a disability but it's due to my disability. It's not me "being awkward"

I don't get it. I'm hard of hearing, why are they the ones not hearing what I say? Why is it so hard to understand that no, I can't hear/understand you if I'm not looking at you? I've told the adviser a few times - get my attention, then when I'm looking at you, talk. Saying "But I called your name" when I had my back to you working on a computer isn't helpful.

And yes. These are the people whose entire job is to help with disability issues.

Comments

[yarram]

I am busy teaching my recently-disabled SO that being in the electric cart means that other people get to move out of his way. Keeping a straight line course makes it easier for them to do so, and means that any clod who continues walking towards him in his "lane" and clearly seeing the oncoming cart deserves to have a bruised kneecap. I give out dirty looks to the clueless walkers in exhange for him making pointed remarks to twits making obnoxious "deaf jokes" that their target is, in fact, a Real Live Deaf Person™.

[lauredhel]

Unless the oncoming clod has balance, sight, pain, or other issues themself.

As a fairly recently converted scooter user (who as a walker has balance and pain issues), I go for a bit of give and take both ways, so long as it's all good faith. (and there's a fair bit of _not_ - I'm personally more irritated by the ostentatious dudes who think they're being 'chivalrous' and want everyone else to know it, than by people who don't immediately see me and jump out of my way.)