[nagdu] working and taking time off to get a guide dog

[t21114 at optonline.net]

Hi Everyone,
I have worked getting all 3 of my 4 dogs. The first dog I didn't get paid for the 25 days . the second one I got paid for two weeks , the third dog I wasn't working and Anna I took two weeks off and got paid. I used my vacation time. 
Marilyn and Anna
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Johnson 
Date: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:45 pm
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Cant do it
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 

> Tami,
> 
> I am just jumping in on this thread as I lost a lot of email and 
> am not able
> to track this back, but I would tend to agree as most employers 
> at the very
> least, would grant unpaid time off. Others, if one had accrued 
> vacation or
> comp, they would make one use this first and if not enough as 
> had happened
> to my girlfriend, she was simply granted unpaid time off, and 
> was able to
> jump right back in her work. The tricky part is that this would 
> most likely
> not fall under the clause of a reasonable work 
> accommodation...just my 2.5
> cents worth.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf
> Of Tami Kinney
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:32 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Cant do it
> 
> Well, I would expect an employer to grant me time off when a 
> guide 
> became available for me. In fact, when I mentioned in my 
> interview for 
> my last position and then the position to which I was about to 
> be 
> promoted that I planned to get a guide dog at some point in the 
> near 
> future, they just said of course that would not be a problem, I 
> could 
> take the time off and still have my job when I got back before I 
> even 
> asked the question.
> 
> If I can expect that from an employer, as most guide dog users 
> seem to 
> have been able to expect, since they have employment and guide dogs...
> 
> Why can't the training center for blind students preparing for 
> the 
> world of employment be expected to act accordingly?
> 
> Also, in this case, they are not even paying Hannah. They are 
> being paid 
> to provide services to her. Very probably every taxpayer in her 
> family 
> is helping to pay them.
> 
> This isn't a shopping spree or a spring break trip to Daytona... 
> If's a 
> guide dog. A mobility tool.
> 
> I just can't help thinking that the training center is out of 
> line and 
> not setting a very good example of adults in the working world.
> 
> I may be missing something, but... Stuff like this just 
> irritates the 
> heck out of me. /smile/
> 
> Tami
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/29/2011 05:00 PM, Cindy Ray wrote:
> > But you have already started it, haven't you? Also, there are 
> other things
> at stake--like who might be waiting to come, etc. I don't know their
> procedures.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
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