Posted on 09/18/2006 1:20:03 PM PDT by Cagey
"..yes. But you can't tell the customers that..."
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Christine, honey, he didn't have to!
Me: I'm guessing her entire tenure there was a burden on her co-employees. For every are where this woman was defective, someone else had to pick up the slack, "peak hours" or not.
I think the law firm that represents her should offer her a position as a clerk. This way we can see this law firm is doing more than representing her but giving her a chance at a new life. Let's see them accomodate her.
A business should not have to do the above. Nor should it have to lie about why it fires people, but they would have done better to wait for her to commit an infraction and then fire her for that infraction.
It is a big debate in our local schools about "mainstreaming" special needs students. Apparently, these students have paperwork that enables them to have special tests, special homework, and special classroom requirements. (All easier.) Sadly, these concessions will give these students good to excellent grades, and they do make the students "feel good" for a while in high school. Afterwards, though, it is a tragic thing to see some of the shock and disappointment at not being able to compete. Recently, one girl who had an A/B experience in her classes, attended a local state college and totally bombed to the point that folks had to wonder what really was the kindest way to handle these things. I see the government, in this Starbuck's case, trying to simulate in the work world those special concessions the government requires in the secondary school world. Starbucks, however, has to make a profit. They cannot do it with some employees not required to work when it gets busy. That is economic insanity for a business. I remember in my youth doing ministry at a school for the blind. They had created work within the capacity of their clients. They were able to market those products and pay wages commensurate with the profitability of their enterprise. Obviously, government subsidies assisted other areas of the school for the blind.
On most job applications there is a question whether the applicant needs any special accommodations to do the job. It is at that point disabilities are disclosed and if not the employer can assume none is required unless the disability arises after employment.
Sounds like she did not tell anyone of the disability and the previous managers were doing her a favor that has turned into a supposed entitlement.
I don't know what this world is coming to, if an employer can't set standards of performance for a job.
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It really is getting ridiculous, people who excel wind up carrying the load for others who can't do the job but receive the same pay. This is exactly what goes on where I have worked for almost four years, whatever happened to merit pay based on actual performance?
It is quite possible that the symptoms of a combination of "bipolar, major depression, borderline personality and attention deficit disorders" resemble the more common workplace disorder known as "laziness."
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And in the same way that ham, bacon and Jimmy Dean sausage all resemble "pork".
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