A world with Deafness.

I am just feeling politically motivated at the moment. I have been reading a lot about what people with profound deafness go through. And I found the following to be my kind of Humor.

Dear Deaf Employee,

You are sadly mistaken and I pray you never encounter the prejudice I have faced. Your pride will go before your fall. A deaf person can work hard and do a job just as good as the person next to them even better, but come crunch time and a company has to make a decision about who to let go bye bye deaf person. For 10 years I was doing the same job and then bam transferred, then let go, hey no problem my skill set will get me another job 200 applications and 50 interviews later, with slanted questions like “how will you answer the phone”, I am not applying for an operator position, but a technician. “How will you know when the test is done”, I’m deaf not blind the test flashes a light as well as rings a bell and the computer indicates finished. Well we’re sorry but it would be a safety hazard in our environment. One year later in a failing economy and no prospects in sight SSDI was approved but every year we kept trying to get a job, that was 15 years ago. Without SSDI we would have lost everything. So get off your high horse just because you have an employer who can look past your disablility. Yes that is right deafness in a hearing culture is a disablitity. Contrary to popular belief it does not make one lazy. My output was double that of my co-workers. God bless you.