Reply #357: Thanks for the reminder.

[noamnety]

The first time I observed a deaf woman in my office trying to make reservations through a relay service, I was shocked.

I actually kind of lost it. The woman on the receiving end of the call refused to work with my colleague. I ended up jumping on the TTY, impersonating her supervisor (hey, whatever works) and reading her the riot act, and letting her know she WOULD be taking a reservation through the relay service, or I would be filing formal charges against her and her company. And I put the original person back on the phone, cause I wasn't giving the woman on the other end the satisfaction of being able to switch to someone else who was capable of using the queen's fucking english. I got a whole separate rant in me on that subject, on feeling all superior to people and refusing to work with them because English is their second language.

I cannot fathom how a person summons up the energy to deal with that shit on every single damn piece of business they try to accomplish, including seeing a doctor.

And that's someone who was physically fine, capable of doing anything, the only obstacle for her was the DISability of others to deal with her.