{"id":26240,"date":"2011-08-19T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26240"},"modified":"2011-08-19T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:41:18","slug":"has-the-ada-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26240","title":{"rendered":"Has the ADA jumped the shark?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apparently my Dwarf Paladin on Anvilmar server can get a job at Starbucks now to augment his l33t healing skillz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Starbucks Coffee Company has paid $75,000 to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to settle a lawsuit for unlawfully denying a reasonable accommodation to a woman with dwarfism, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed by the commission on behalf of Elsa Sallard, who claimed she was fired from her job as a barista because she is a dwarf.<\/p>\n

According to a press release from the commission, Sallard told employers during a training that she could use a stool or stepladder to do her job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look, I am all for reasonable accomodation and things of that nature, as I think everyone is. But, if a Barrista works on a machine that is 4 feet in the air, and that is also where the counter is, how can you have a sub-4 foot invididual working it. Hypothetically, if Starbucks put in a stool that this lady could stand on, how many think that would pass OSHA muster? Or are they supposed to build a ramp that takes up half the work area? At what point does a federal requirement to treat everyone equal turn into an unconscionable and unprofittable requirement for someone running a small business? <\/p>\n

I don’t know the answer, but I know THIS isn’t right<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A deaf man has accused a nudist park in upstate New York of violating federal law by refusing to provide him with a sign-language interpreter at an annual festival.<\/p>\n

Tom Willard, 53, of Rochester, filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department claiming Empire Haven Nudist Park violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by refusing his requests for an interpreter.<\/p>\n

“I am fed up with being turned away every time I try to do something, by idiots who somehow feel the ADA does not apply to them,” Willard wrote in the complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really dude? You go to the nudist colony for the conversations? Yeah, and I read Penthouse for the incisive articles, I go to the titty bar to learn about young women taking Childhood Education classes at the local community college, and I go to Borders for their excellent restrooms.<\/p>\n

Willard said he wanted to raise awareness of groups that ignore the ADA. He said he was also filing a complaint against a local comedy club that refused to provide an interpreter.<\/p>\n

“I hate that I have to go through these experiences and subject myself to ridicule and derision, but the alternative is to stay home and never try to do anything in the world,” Willard said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just don’t see how private enterprised being driven into the ground financially somehow helps someone with a disability. I think this guy is on a money fishing expedition. I just can’t accept that a nudist colony should be required to pay this guys interpreter. Should a guy here on a visa from Malawi get his own interpreter? If not, you are a racist apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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