Elucidating Questions

Just Cozy

Got offered an interview

Asked if it could be over phone because I can’t get anywhere without two week’s notice, because I travel by the disability transit system

We prefer face to face interviews so we’ll interview all of them first and if we don’t like them we’ll call you

Just be last pick

Just wait until we’ve interviewed all the people who are able enough to get around on the spot and then maybe we’ll give you a chance

Just be patient and wait your turn

It’s your own fault for being disabled anyways

Your turn never comes

It’s ironic

Had I been able to keep my old job I’d be fine

But they changed the job description

I feel so not even second best

Like 7th

After we’ve gone through all these other people

We may throw the scraps at you

Just Cozy

Unless you’re disabled I guess

But they’ll take disabled people’s money

What quota?

What is this quota everyone keeps talking about?

And why am I, someone with sixteen years in customer service, never a part of it?

They said if you get experience you’ll get jobs

You’ll get jobs that pay better

You’ll get by

It’s ironic that I don’t even want much

Maybe three 4 hour shifts at the most

But everyone wants open availability up to 40 hours

It would be so cheap to employ me just because you need a disabled face

They don’t want that

Where’s the fucking quota?

Why is it that when I put in my diversity information I don’t get the job?

Why do interviewers change their tone when you tell them you’re disabled?

Why do receptionist jobs (which are fucking easy I did it at a tax office for an entire municipality for a season) all require 1 year or more of experience?

Do receptionists voip into existence?

Just because I need to work less doesn’t mean the quality of my work is less

But you understand these companies they have their able bodied workforce already doing more than is reasonable

Giving a disabled person the responsibilities of an overworked able bodied person just isn’t fair

It’s wrong

I thought that paper I had to pay to get filled out for Old Navy was supposed to tell them my limits and they would work with me

And then they didn’t

They changed the entire job description to be three jobs at once and said “do it or leave”

So I paid a total of about $120 to get my condition explained to them and then they built the job into one I couldn’t do

When I was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia I had a form filled out for Walmart who I had been working for for almost a year

They informed me they had no job suitable for me and terminated my employment

So I lied to employers for years about my ability and pushed through everything

And ended up with a second, worse, chronic illness

So much pushing through

For employers, friends, family

I just want a job

And everyone keeps telling me it’s so easy to find one

And I have applied to 18 jobs since the beginning of the month that I can do

One messaged back and then wanted me to wait until they’d decided if they wanted an able bodied person before even interviewing me

Fuck you “Just Cozy”