aquascoot wrote on May 12
th, 2014 at 7:40am:
Not at all.
Disability Support Pensioners to be included in the community.
How ludicrous that 400,000 people under the age of 45 are "pensioners"
Even more ludicrous that 1/2 are on it for a bad back or depression.
Great post, aqua.
Maintain the rage.
However, there is the problem of where to place these people in the workforce.
Your list of 'can-do's' is notionally correct, but unless the government makes laws to force employers to take on a percentage of the disabled ~ it's never going to happen.
In menial jobs the main criteria is ... speed. They simply want you to power-through whatever it is you're doing, at maximum speed.
That's making beds and tidying up rooms in a hotel, or a courier van service, or making sandwiches for the lunchtime crowds, or doing work on a factory production-line.
The second job I ever had I was fired from because I took
care to do a good job, rather than zip through with shoddy work. They want quantity at the end of the day ~ not good craftsmanship.
People with disabilities aren't going to push themselves hard enough to satisfy a boss.
I worked as a Casual at one place where the boss would turn up the speed-dial of the production-line if he thought we weren't stressed out enough. More widgets: more profit.