#disabled employment

[bitchesgetriches]

Hello, what is the best way to leave home as a disabled adult that’s very reliant on my parents?

Without more context, I honestly don't have a good answer for this one. So I invite everyone to share more information that might be useful to Anonny!

Here's more of what we've written about the intersection of disability and personal finance:

Why There’s So Little (Good) Personal Finance for Disabled People 

Short-Term Disability Insurance Is a Waste of Money… With Two Very Specific Exceptions 

Long-Term Disability Insurance Is a Necessity… and a Scam 

The Social Safety Net for Disabled People Is Broken 

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[star-anise]

I'll believe that governments want to "empower disabled people to achieve employment" when they actually:

Legislate broader work-from-home abilities for jobs that don't actually require in-office presence

Strengthen employment discrimination laws so employers stop thinking that the easiest way to get around having to accommodate a disabled employee is just to fire them

Actually create systems where they, the government, monitor and enforce accessible environments and building codes. The onus shouldn't be on us to get the money to hire a lawyer and sue our own workplaces to get our basic access needs met.

Include disabled people in minimum wage legislation, instead of leaving legal carve-outs where "substandard workers" can be paid subminimum wage.

Allow disabled people to keep savings accounts of our own, which we don't need anybody else's approval to create or spend

Let us form supportive households, relationships, and marriages without taking away our benefits (especially because this means we have no money of our own if we want to leave those relationships)

Until then, nuh-uh. Fuck off. You're not "empowering" us. You're just pushing us further out onto a perilous ledge because you think you can use inspirational supercrip narratives to force us to perform or die.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: What is the one thing that broke your mind when the Americans came in? Let's talk about it and see if it's different.

Cnetizens and tiktok imigrants begin to exchange facts mainly in clothing, food, housing, transportation, and people's livelihood. They realized that things were very different from what they had heard before. So they call it 对账单dui zhang dan, lit. checking accounting items with eachother (a chinese accounting term). XHS has a trending tag 中美对账 (chinese and americans check account), if you click in it, you'll see a lot of posts both by cnetizens and tt imigrants. And most cnetizens are shocked by what americans told them, and vice versa.

video translation cr 阿美莉真卡

Cnetizens comments

Some Cnetizens don't believe it and feel that the Americans in the video are trolling, these Cnetizens say that when they were studying and working in the US, they saw many Americans were doing very well, living in nice apartments or neighborhoods with villas. Other Americans tell them that it's because either these people's parents are just rich, or they became upper middle class by working hard. They explained to cnetizens that the state runs on debt and loans. If you get a great job at a big company, then you can work for a few years and pay off your loans all at once and your quality of life leaps and bounds, and a lot of people have succeeded that way, so there will be people who keep trying. But if you lose your job, can't afford to pay those taxes that last a lifetime, deplete your savings, and can't pay off your debt, you're likely to lose your house and become homeless.

And then this is how Cnetizens comforted Americans

[intergalacticgoose]

If you’re autistic in the professional world, you’re stuck with two options:

1. Don’t disclose you’re autistic and try to mask and risk losing your job when you inevitably fail to live up to allistic expectations

2. Disclose you’re autistic and risk being treated with kiddie gloves, possibly up until you’re driven out of the job by the condescending environment

You literally can’t win. You’re treated like your incompetent or lazy on the one hand, or like your (very reasonable!!) communication needs are massive inconveniences on the other. (I literally just communicate what I need and mean rather than trying to decode communication games in this edition of Professional Sims™️!)

The ideal would be to work around other autistic and/or disabled people, I guess. But even then, often in order to get there you have to go through a gauntlet of jobs and educational systems that are straight up not made for autistic people.

No wonder so many of us remain unemployed.

[richardnixonlibrary]

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

In May 1969, members of the President’s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped visited President Nixon at the White House. William Passmore, Handicapped American of the Year, pinned a "Hire the Handicapped" button to President Nixon’s lapel. Also attending the event were Laura Passmore (mother of William), musical performer Stevie Wonder, Lula Mae Hardaway (Wonder's mother), other committee members, and essay-winning teens. (Image: PAR.53.4.4)

[kurgy]

ive been short this month and i have a dermatology appointment today for bloodwork and med review thats important, lost my ride last minute, and i can cover the appointment fees and everything but i cant cover transportation fully, im going either way i just might overdraft so hi if anyone can help with uber costs id appreciate it

paypal.me/kurgyy

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Finding a job can be a challenge for anyone, but for people with both visible and non-visible disabilities in Nova Scotia, the barriers can feel insurmountable. According to the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW), the province has one of the largest employment gaps in the country: 20 per cent between people with and without disabilities, which is higher than the national average of 16 per cent.

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[thetimelordbatgirl]

The fact that Labour actually seems to be acting like disability doesn't hit you until after you turn twenty two with their idea of not allowing anyone under twenty two to get health benefits on top of the normal universial credit payments, like... Do they fucking think people under twenty two with disabilities in need of support money wise dont fucking exist??? Or do they fucking think if they do exist, that they can somehow work these disabilities off even when they cannot at all??? Let alone that employers actually exist out there for all these young disabled workers??? Because that's something THAT LABOUR STILL HAS YET TO ACKNOWLEDGE!

[urbancripple]

I've been working for 22 years and I've only encountered another wheelchair user once and he was only at the company for, like, 6 months. It's exhausting. And before you chime in here with like "I feel you! I have <not a wheelchair user diagnosis> and I hardly ever see..." Stop. Don't. Please. I'm not interested. Maybe just read what I have to say, and take it in. Oh, and since I wrote more than three sentences in the article, I'll save you guys the effort: #longpost

[northirish]

Props to the English for consistently having a string of politicians that can't resist being utter cunts to the disabled and the worst off in society but hey at least a couple of think tanks are happy

[chimera-dolls]

My morning routine is now literally: get up, open Tumblr, open specific doll tags, report anything that is not doll related. Kind of cathartic actually.

[bitchesgetriches]

NEW POST!

Short-Term Disability Insurance Is a Waste of Money… With Two Very Specific Exceptions

Here's an excerpt:

"In preparation for this article, I read a lot of stories from people who filed short-term disability insurance claims. I was dismayed but not surprised to see just how many people experience claim rejections.

As this ProPublica report explains, the claims rejection process is so murky it could easily be mistaken for a Rainbow Brite villain. On average, 20% of claims are rejected. But it’s often wildly erratic. One company rejected 66% of claims in one year, and 7% the next. And the sole arbiter of the claim is, of course, the insurance company itself. You know: the entity that has vast resources and a compelling financial interest in denying those claims?

HI, I DON’T LIKE THIS."

Keep reading.

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

Call me cynical, but please remember that your employer is not your friend.

You may have friends at work, but your employer, the entity, is not your friend. Your relationship is, at best, transactional; at worst, it's predatory and exploitive. Your job serves profit and will always prioritize that over everything else.

No job should be treated as the exception to this. That's not to say that no job will ever treat you well; it is only to say that, if you're convinced that Your Job Is Different, you're already in a position to be exploited.

Stay wary. Know your rights as a worker. Keep your mouth shut about most things. Be grateful for a job that doesn't exploit you but never get too comfortable, no matter how many employee resource groups, mental health days, catered lunches or anything else they provide. Your employer is not your friend.

[nando161mando]

I don’t wanna be here anymore

[defectivegembrain]

See sometimes being disabled can make it easier to see through bullshit about jobs and such because like. Something will be described as "unskilled labour" and I'm like that literally requires skills I do not have. Just because most people take for granted having them to at least some degree doesn't make them not skills. I am in awe of your customer service voice and your phone etiquette I don't know to do that and probably never will

[eyecandyandbraincandy-blog]

The problem with job hunting is it's dishonest and built into the system. It's not about showing you're "qualified" for the role. It's about knowing which buzzwords to use, how best to kiss their ass, and how to give off the best "vibes" in 30 seconds or less. And the kicker is none of it's standardized, and you're never given feedback on how to improve/why you weren't selected. It's neurotypicality at its finest and it's no wonder neurodivergents struggle so hard with it.

Your vibe hunting is bullshit.