Posted on 07/08/2017 7:00:17 AM PDT by KeyLargo
The ADA has done more for Americans with legitimate disabilities than the abuses you seem to focus on.........
As for this Marine vet with 10 years military service and tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he can marry his dog if he wants, I have no problem with it. He served his country and now it's up to his employer to obey the law and acomodate him.
As a side note, last week I witnessed a young vet with no legs trying to unload his collapsible wheelchair from his car so he could gas up his car at the gas pump next to the one I was using. And this past spring there was another young vet with a prosthetic leg and his service dog at the local Meijer's store.........
You are fortunate that whatever set of circumstances aligned for this young man or for other vets for PTSD did not happen to you. There have been sufferers of what we now know as PTSD after every war, like shell shock? We don’t know anything about this young man and what he experienced, and I think it’s really kind of rotten to denigrate the reactions of people who go to war zones and experience really horrific things like having their friends blown up right beside them just because not everyone reacts that way. We all have our weaknesses.
My grandfather served in WW2 and suffered from bad nightmares for the rest of his life, over 40 years. And yet he served admirably and with his life continually at risk. He was no snowflake.
Yeah, the whole emotional support animal thing has been stretched to allow ingenues to carry their “babies” around with them in their purses, but that is not what we are talking about here.
Cincinnati Bell may not be able to make a reasonable accomodation for an employee with a service dog, but they should just say that. Right now, it looks like they are refusing him just out of inconsideration, but it might well be that a dog is an unreasonable accomodation and we just don’t know why.
Everyone and his brother are bringing pets on planes. Our friend is a pilot for Jet Blue and he says the “comfort” animals are not limited to dogs and cats. Think turkey, monkey and pig.
We were on a flight ,with what appeared to be a very normal couple, who had no apparent physical problems. They had a very large golden retriever and they sat in the first row. When the 3rd passenger went to sit down beside them he was asked to change his seat so the dog could occupy the floor in front of all 3 seats.
Are there Muslim employees who will object to having a dog in the office? There has to be something going on.
No, he’s not.
residential telecom installers is an entry level job. He doesn’t need similar work, he just needs work.
There are very few real ‘service’ dogs, like seeing-eye dogs. Most of the so-called ‘service’ dogs are really emotional support animals wearing a home-made or bought off the internet red “service animal” collar. People use and abuse the actual service animal allowances made by businesses and the government so they can bring their pets to the mall, to church, on an airplane, etc.
For example: Imagine if he was working in a 'cat house'?/snicker
The ADA respect of helpful animals has been lost to people like my daughter who think they cant leave the house without their pet. And she knows every instance she may come across where that law says she is right and, I am sometimes embarrased for her to be my daughter when she goes off chapter and verse on people she has never met on why its legal as to what she wants to do with her dog.
The wife and I both have asked where this come from in our child and we have absolutly no idea. We tried to raise her with conservative christian background, but the "emotional support animal" thing really found home with her.
I am with yldstrk. Get a different job.
Actually residential telecom installer for Cincy Bell is a union (CWA) position that comes with full benefits, training and a very good career path. Not your typical entry level job. I know guys who started out climbing poles in the desert and ended up with CCIEs, managing major corporate deployments. If I were just coming out of the military I wouldn’t throw an opportunity like that away.
Muslem’s dont like dogs because dogs HATE Muslem’s.
That Lassie story about the dog running to the local Squishy mart full of Muslems still has me laughing!
He’s prolly just fighting for that good job.
Prayers to the vet.
A Service Tech, that has to go into homes where the owner doesn’t want a dog, is a problem. There may be dogs, cats or other animals, that could conflict?
As a retired Ma Bell employee(42 years, 22 Craft and the rest management), I had some conflicts. The times I was a Union Steward, the appropriate answer was to arbitrate(compromise).
There are many “inside jobs”, he could look into. The company has numerous “outside jobs” also, that do not require entering a customer’s residence.
What I see here is a privileged individual, that sees it only ONE way! Time to Negotiate!
One time in my career, I wore a old Fatigue Jacket to work, that had a flag on it. Management, said “remove the flag, jacket or you are suspended until you do”!
I put my jacket in the closet.
Well I stand corrected
is this an actual service dog or an emotional support pet?
I am not thrilled with dogs being everywhere nowadays (have 3 dogs myself)
>>My grandfather served in WW2 and suffered from bad nightmares for the rest of his life, over 40 years. And yet he served admirably and with his life continually at risk. He was no snowflake.
Exactly my point. Your grandfather was no snowflake. I had an uncle who did 32 bombing missions over Europe. I had another who was a POW in Korea. I had another who endured artillery barrages in WW2 with the Purple Heart for one of them. I’ve seen a 4” seawater line blow apart at test depth on a submarine and been blinded (temporarily) and hospitalized after an electrical switchboard blew up with enough energy to instantly melt bus bars. People have endured horrible things in the military, but only this generation needs dogs to hug them constantly so they can function.
There are "service dog kits" you can buy online to call anything a service dog. That is so wrong.
I have a lot of respect for those true service dogs and their owners - but the "emotional support animals" act as sort of a "binky" for adults.
I didn't see enough information to support or refute your statement. The article refers to the dog as a Service animal, those are a class above ESA's, if the dog is trained to alert to an oncoming episode requiring the Vet to take medication or other treatment it must indeed be allowed in to work with the Vet, no differently than if it was a Seeing EYe Dog. However if the dog is only an ESA serving no real medical assistance other than a calming influence than he has no right to take the animal into otherwise restricted locations.
I don't think there is enough information available to us. While I agree with others that too many people take advantage of laws that were written with the protection of disabled in mind, like in California where it is illegal to ask for proof that the dog is a service animal, and this allows anybody to take their dirty, untrained baby into grocery stores and damn near anywhere.
Amen! This whole "service dog" issue was bullshit from the start is now completely out of hand. I'm an infantry combat veteran and a dog lover, but the beast stays home when I go to work. I am sick and tired of hearing grown men who walked into combat whine that they can't face a SAFE and NORMAL life without their live teddy bears. Just another group of fakers sucking special benefits and "rights" from the government teat, calling attention to themselves and saying "Look at me! I'm special!" Enough!
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