[nabs-l] Discrimination at workplace and how to deal with it

Thu Jan 19 18:56:48 UTC 2017

Hi JJ nice to hear from you! Hope your semester has started out well.
   Students are given most of the jobs of the dining hall actually. They are given anything from dish room to server at many stations or chef’s assistant or are placed on the salad station etc. Some students apply to be in the position of manager so they oversee the other students and help out where necessary. The text I copied and pasted was from 1 such student, who also deals with employment of all students.   The dish room doesn’t have very many challenges, and given the right training any student regardless of disability can work any station (Managers do training for other employees who are students. I know the dining hall like the back of my hand and would only need training to work at each station. ) 
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> On Jan 19, 2017, at 10:08, johnnie Jean duran <johnniejduran at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wasn't given quite enough information to thoroughly examine the
> situation. Although this is absolutely NOT ok, under any circumstance.
> it's important to remember that when dealing with schools/colleges,
> that they are not willing to be responsible for any incident that
> takes place within their facilities. They have difficulties letting
> students with total vision complete these jobs, so of course they are
> absolutely terrified when they see a student with a visual impairment
> coming in. Once again, this isn't ok, but at the end of the day,
> whether they are an equal opportunity employer or not, they will not
> do anything that has a possible outcome of a  lawsuit or a hospital
> bill. But before I can give you my opinion on how the situation should
> be handled, I have several questions for you:
> 1. Are there any possible safety hazards regarding the dish room that
> you can think of, just off the top of your head?
> 2. Do the other students switch jobs often?
> 3. If yes, how does the system of who does what work?
> 3. What are some of the other jobs and responsibilities?
> 4. Do you know the dining hall well enough so that someone doesn't
> have to navegate around it with you for the entire shift? (I'm pretty
> sure the answer to this is yes, but I just thought I'd ask)
> 
> On 1/18/17, Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi, thank you for your responses to my initial discrimination question, I
>> definitely feel that this paragraph I received via email from one of my
>> managers last week at The dining hall where I work disallows  me from
>> performing jobs that many other student employees are responsible for,
>> leaving me always with the dishes. I really like the people I work with and
>> would rather not relocate even if it's to another dining hall because this
>> dining hall is right near my residence hall at school. One of my friends
>> that works with me has talked with me about this and thinks that the
>> managers have not dealt with very many people with disabilities before, but
>> this university is an equal opportunity employer which does not discriminate
>> based on anything… Or so they  claim. I've tried approaching this particular
>> manager as well as others to discuss both in person and in  email, but
>> getting pretty much the same response as below. Additionally, I realize that
>> people at my school would be obligated to file an additional title IX
>> complaint or whatever complaint this would be   with the affirmative action
>> because of this if it was gotten ahold of, which means that I would be
>> involved in 2   title IX complaint simultaneously. I really enjoy working at
>> the dining hall to, and would rather not move. How do you guys think would
>> be the best way to resolve this so I can remain employed there but with the
>> ability to work at different stations other than the dishes? The paragraph
>> reads as follows (Employee names I edited out):
>> Zach, while we all know you are very capable, we do not have other positions
>> we are comfortable putting you in. We understand you worked with someone
>> else at Dining room attendant one night, which is great as extra help but we
>> can’t have someone chauffeuring you around the entire shift. Similarly, with
>> the positions as cooks assistants much of these jobs are not supervised and
>> require a lot of moving around and dealing with dangerous materials. If you
>> want to continue working here your shifts will continue to be in the dish
>> room.
>> 
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