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Originally Posted by Jeff  Any objections from the owner and mention the disablilty discrimination act and how bad the publicity would look if it made the local papers.
Jeff |
It doesn't work like that I'm afraid, not in real life. Here's a lovely time I once had in Scarborough: -
I parked my car for the day behind this very large store, that was in a row of shops. It was on a very steep hill (Scarborough is very hilly). I rang the bell, was let in, and worked for the morning. During the morning, I went to the loo, but as this was up five flights of stairs, I decided I would eat my lunch in my car. The manager was also a pharmacist, so she told me to go for lunch from 12pm to 1pm, and she would have her lunch at 1pm.
I went back throught the door I had come in, and started reading the paper and eating my lunch, sat in my car. All of a sudden the back door flew open, and this very angry manager started banging on my car window. I rolled the window down and asked "what's up?". She shouted at me that they don't use the back door. I told her I had been told to park there (by her) in the morning, and what was I supposed to do? She replied "you can walk round to get back in".
I told her I couldn't walk down a steep hill, around a block of shops and back again just because she wanted me to. I then added I am a registered disabled person, to which she replied "tough!" If there wasn't a camera there I would have smacked the little t**t, so I went home instead. I did get paid for the full day after my agency complained about this, but the company insisted I wrote a letter saying I would never take it any further. I never wrote the letter, but asked a solicitor I know if there was anything I could do about this, and the reply was a firm no.
It isn't nice to be treated like this, wether it's because you are disabled, black, Asian or whatever, but in practice there isn't a lot you can do about it, especially when you have to work to pay your mortgage.