[nfbcs] Fake Cover Letters Expose Discrimination Against Disabled

[Gregory Kearney]

Did any of you file a complaint with the EEOC about these events. In particular I am thinking of the last one which would, from the account, seem to be a public service employer?

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> On Mar 10, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Daryl Marie via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I once interviewed for a job  where the hiring manager told me flat-out that she wouldn't consider me. She told me I couldn't possibly be fast enough on a computer to be able to respond to emergencies appropriately. No matter that I have emergency dispatcher training...
> Nothing I said or did would have changed her mind, and she flat-out told me that.
> As bleak as this article and our own experiences have proven things to be as it comes to hiring workers with disabilities, IMHO, I would rather be unemployed than work for an organization that doesn't respect me as a person. I just got out of a REALLY BAD job situation, and I fully believe that. I never thought I would feel that way, but life with blindness can sometimes be hard, but you truly do need a cheerleading squad behind you, even if it's just one person telling you you CAN.
> 
> Daryl
> 
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> From: Tracy Carcione via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
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> Sent: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:10:20 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fake Cover Letters Expose Discrimination Against	Disabled
> 
> I once interviewed for a job, taking a bus, a train, and walking several
> blocks in Manhattan, only to find the interviewer could not be convinced I
> wouldn't need someone to lead me to the bathroom. Grrrr.
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of John G Heim via
> nfbcs
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 11:03 AM
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> Cc: John G Heim
> Subject: [nfbcs] Fake Cover Letters Expose Discrimination Against Disabled
> 
> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/upshot/fake-cover-letters-expose-discri
> mination-against-disabled.html
> 
> I think I have talked on this list about wanting to commission a study
> similar to the one mentioned in this article except with a blind applicant
> applying for IT jobs. The study has people with spinal injuries and
> Asperger's Syndrome applying for accounting jobs. They found disabled
> applicants were 26% less likely to get a call back. Of particular interest
> are some of the comments.
> 
> "Given two candidates of roughly equal qualifications the rational decision
> would be to hire the one without disabilities. It's going to be less
> expensive, on average . [...] So statistically, a disabled job applicant
> would need to be sufficiently better qualified for the job to overcome the
> disability to be the 'correct' choice."
> 
> Long time readers of this list will know I've speculated about this effect
> for years. My guess is that this factor is much greater for blind applicants
> than it is for the types of disabilities in the study. A blind person does,
> in fact, have greater challenges to over come. But I suspect that even worse
> is the lack of understanding about just how much a blind technologist can
> do. A perspective employer once flatly refused to interview me when she saw
> that I was blind. She essentially accused me of faking my resume and simply
> would not believe a blind person could use a computer.
> 
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