[YLUG] Re:Test/Certification centre reccomendations ?

Fintan Gaughan fgaughan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 22:30:23 BST 2006


On 07/09/06, Mark Snowdon <mark at snowdon.org> wrote:
> Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> > Also not forgetting people with disabilities (like me) got no chance
> > in hell of a job.
> >
> > All interview I had was you haven't qualifications on paper but when I
> > do get them and go back to same job their excuses is you are unable to
> > use telephone.
> > I am hard of hearing.
> >
> > Fintan
> >
>
> Have you spoken to whoever is supposed to police the discrimination
> laws?  If any company puts an excuse like that in writing it would be
> time to sue.  Also copies to local papers/national press depending on
> how big they are.
>
> The only time I saw a genuine turn down on disability grounds was a
> blind programmer applying for a job to develop graphics software.
>
> Mark
>

Not a lot I can do about it if they say job involves telephone support.
I want to be 3rd line support go out fixing computers etc but they all
say everyone start at the bottom IE telephone support

Fintan



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