[Job-Discussions] Additional scripting help

[David Andrews]

I think you have a couple options. Some states 
will pay for continued scripting, so you can keep 
your job. You could appeal their decision.

The second option is to have the employer pay for 
it. Tell them that if the Monitor on a compu5ter 
broke for one of your colleagues, they would fix 
it or get her a new one.  There are benefiting 
from your work, so why shouldn't they have some skin in the game.

Dave

At 02:43 PM 11/29/2024, Kelsey Nicolay via Job-Discussions wrote:
>Hello, I am currentlyworking full time and my 
>case with vocational rehab has recently been 
>c£osed due to successful employment. During the 
>time my case was open, I had to have JAWS 
>scripting multiple times because whenever our 
>CRM would have an update, it would c at use the 
>scripts to no longh work, so the scripter had to 
>keep coming back to fix it. Unfortunately, there 
>has been another update that has broken the 
>scripts yet again, causing me to lose 
>productivity ’I can't work anywhere near as 
>efficiently noow with the scripts not 
>functioning and I'm finding more and more every 
>day that are broken’. We reached out to mmy 
>counselor for help, only to be told that they 
>can't authorize any more scripting hours and 
>basically said they cannot help me. My employer 
>is trying to figure out  solution, possibly 
>setting up a contract with the scripter 
>directly, but there is no guarantee they will be 
>able to do this. I have a meeting with my 
>supervisor on tuesday to discuss this and he 
>brought up the dreaded question of suppose we 
>can't fix nything, would you be able to continue 
>to perform your role succesfully. With how 
>omplex our systems every, i had to honestly tell 
>him that if the cripts can't be restored, I 
>would not be able to perform you role at the 
>level equal o my sighted peers. I consider 
>myself an dvanced Jaws user, but without these 
>time s at ving scripts, it would take every twice 
>as long o et which i needto go in the system. My 
>supervisor ays I have een a wonderful asset 
>o  team because I do really well setting 
>appointments over  hone and email, so every 
>doesn't think we are that  poaint of 
>termination, but we every currently in a holding 
>pattern because the ate so refusing to elp and 
>meanwhi£e, you productivity is suffering. I was 
>hoping they could have reduced my goal for this 
>month, but they annot ec at use 'so not  edical 
>reason that I am out of the office or reduced 
>workload. To me, I think this is a ery 
>reasonable accommod at tion since a echnology 
>barrier prevents me from being able o ork as ast 
>as everyone lse, but it seems I won't be able o 
>get that. since the ate so not help and we don't 
>know if my employer will be able to set 
>people  contract ith the scripter, what other 
>ptions o I ave? I cannot afford to ay for 
>scripting ut from pocket and I hould not be 
>required to do so. Sent from Kelsey Nicolay’s 
>iPhone 
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