UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hello peeps
hows it goin? i havent been around for a while because i always feel sick. my eye sight is changing so quick i think it is anyway because i cant see what i used to. i concentrate that much i feel sick. the joys of life

and apart from that talk about discrimination, i keep getting told im a potential liability when ever i go to find a job.

**Happy birthday to meeeeee, happy birthday 2day!** hint hint LOL

Happy Birthday Jai!

Happy birthday, Jaiboy. Hope you get better soon !

jayboi

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

As to feeling sick, why not go and tell your doc you have this experience.

As to being a potential liability in any workplace: Balderdash. You are not. Indeed you would bring an extra dimension to any workplace or working team.

Check out the signature on the messages posted by Jayuk. It's true.

Andrew

KC making you a liability sounds like disability discrimination.

OK I will not enter my lab without wearing my lenses, but I can still run all the R&D instruments in the lab from my desk.

Have you got the employer information from the support group?

Happy Birthday

GarethB wrote:KC making you a liability sounds like disability discrimination.

OK I will not enter my lab without wearing my lenses, but I can still run all the R&D instruments in the lab from my desk.

Have you got the employer information from the support group?

Happy Birthday

Nope,

thanks all for your b-day messages LOL. It just annoys me how small minded some people can be. And im talking about the woman at the job centre, it is her that said i am a potential liability. oh well thats life isn't it.

As for the DOC im waiting to see the eye guy at the hospital, i haven't been there before but im not due till late May because of the que. Unless they get a cancellation then i can go.

Jai,

Next time you're at the job centre and she calls you a liability, gently remind her of her duties under the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) and ask to be referred to Access to Work - who will pay 100% of the cost to any new employer of any reasonable modifications they have to make to employ you.

In adition to John comments, print a copy of the KC leaflet for employers available from this site and if she wants a testimonial from someone with KC that was off for three months and is back at work being as productive as sighted collegues, I will provide one.

Action for the blind is a charity to help us get work and issues we may have; http://www.afbp.org/

Would be worth gettin one of there people with you next time you visit the job centre, andother comment you have had regarding being a liability they will take action against under the disability discrimination act.

I know they threatend one person with action for saying to a KC person with KC 'Can we join you watching the movie later?'

but what she said is really true. i suppose its not as bad as she is saying but it is the truth. she was advising me what potential emplo would say, and from what i have found its right. even the ones that don't say it there actions defo speak louder than words.

jayboi

You see lots of us are in full time jobs, and I guarantee that it is not the experience of our employers that we are a liability. far from it! People with KC tend to be a highly motivated bunch, and the business of finding ways round our problem makes us adaptable and focused.

These are positive benefits that we bring to the workforce.

Your woman at the jobcentre ought to be reminded of her duties under the DDA and you are entitled to ask, as John has said, for a referral to their Access to Work Team. Their intervention may make all the difference in any contact with potential employers.

It does occur to me that the woman whom you have met so far may be talking to her first ever jobseeker with KC, in which case she has spoken in ignorance. It is our job (yours, mine, John Smith's, Anne's, Jayuk's et al ...) to attack prejudice and overcome it!

Now that gets you motivated in the morning

Every good wish

Andrew