[humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment

Thu Dec 26 20:18:35 UTC 2013

Yeah, you don't have to pull out technology or anything, but a basic
description would probably help the interviewee.

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From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sandy
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 3:11 PM
To: Human Services Mailing List; Carly Mihalakis
Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment

I don't mean actually pulling out technology and demonstrating anything,
just a brief description.

Sandy

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From: "Carly Mihalakis" <carlymih at comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 2:05 PM
To: "Sandy" <sandraburgess at msn.com>; "Human Services Mailing List" 
<humanser at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment

> Good morning, Sandy,
>
>         Well ideally, you could illustrate how such tasks are executed 
> given your blindness and, if such an opportunity does not arise, you could

> just answer boss's questions. At 09:53 AM 12/26/2013, Sandy wrote:
>>Carlee,
>>
>>I understand your point.  In my opinion, when I go for an interview and 
>>the employer knows nothing about my blindness, I am sure he/she is going 
>>to wonder how paperwork and so on will get done.  I think that telling the

>>employer one's abilities, if you use cognitive theory, etc. is important. 
>>Secondary to that, I believe it is okay for me to give information as to 
>>how certain parts of the job can be handled by me.  Blindness is not the 
>>same type of characteristic as hair color, for example.
>>
>>
>>Sandy
>>
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>>From: "Carly Mihalakis" <carlymih at comcast.net>
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 4:58 AM
>>To: "Sandy" <sandraburgess at msn.com>; "Human Services Mailing List" 
>><humanser at nfbnet.org>; "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
>>Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment
>>
>>>Good morning,
>>>
>>>It would seem to me that, inflicting a shocked state on to someone who 
>>>interacts with you most likely will reduce conditions to that which many 
>>>blind people resent, being seeing only for blindness and not for the 
>>>flaming and colorful people, we often are.
>>>I believe in blindness being so mythic amongst sighted cultures that, 
>>>among the things of which we are without is a presumed entitlement of 
>>>anonymity, blindness forever being a presence I came to know in deviance 
>>>class, a master status or the single characteristic beyond anything else 
>>>by which you are identified I.E Black president, gay teacher, deaf Ms. 
>>>America among many others. It could be a sort of game.
>>>
>>>So, I do digress, it seems honest just to tell a potential employer this 
>>>identifying characteristic of your's. After all, would you have a problem

>>>disclosing that you might be a blond, a redhead or Chinese?
>>>for today, Car
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Sandy
>>>>
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>>>>From: "JD Townsend" <43210 at Bellsouth.net>
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:29 PM
>>>>To: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
>>>>Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Sadly some folks are prejudice on the outset.  I took a 2 hour trip for

>>>>>an interview once and the interviewer told me at the door that the job 
>>>>>was too intense for me, without even letting me speak;  seems my white 
>>>>>cane said all she wanted to know.
>>>>>
>>>>>I learned after many interviews that I had to compete not as a blind 
>>>>>applicant, but as the best applicant.  Some people tell an interviewer 
>>>>>on the outset that they are blind or visually impaired, but I have 
>>>>>never seen the wisdom in this.  I find that the initial hand-shake and 
>>>>>the walk down long corridors to the interview room, finding my seat and

>>>>>addressing the real issues of the job have served me well.  When I have

>>>>>taken this attitude, ignoring my blindness as an issue, the interviews 
>>>>>have gone much better.  I tell the interviewer that I dislike 
>>>>>paperwork, but that I sleep much better when it is up to date;  should 
>>>>>they ask me how I do it I say that I have PC add-ons that have served 
>>>>>me well in the past and that it should not be a problem with whatever 
>>>>>system they are using. Should they ask about transportation I tell them

>>>>>that I got here on my own and on time and that I should have no 
>>>>>problem.  It isn't my job to explain about adaptive equipment or 
>>>>>transportation, just that I can do the job, then I re-focus on my 
>>>>>strengths as a clinical social worker and how I might fit my skills 
>>>>>into serving the agency.
>>>>>
>>>>>If we allow disability or adaptations to become a focus of an interview

>>>>>instead of our skills and work ethic we have no chance for employment.
>>>>>
>>>>>Just my opinion, sorry for the lecture.
>>>>>
>>>>>JD
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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