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How have you effectively blocked others from using your disability
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How have you effectively blocked others from using your disability as a convenient excuse for rejection?

Name: Pauline Horvath
E-mail: PH7255@webtv.net
Date: 29 Jan 1998
Time: 23:54:18
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Say "No" To Unreasonableness

I was a civilian personnel specialist for the Navy and use a wheelchair due to severe rheumatoid arthritis.

My refusal to allow others to use my disability as an excuse for rejection involves two avenues. I devised creative accommodations to allow me to do my job. When these failed, I used legal redress. I was the first severely disabled person hired in 1982 in personnel at the Alameda Naval Station. I was promoted through the ranks of GS-5 through GS-11.

In 1988, a supervisor took over stating "Its my office and I don't have to have a wheelchair in it" and "I'm sick and tired of this handicap crap." I was forced to leave my wheelchair Vocational Rehabilitation purchased outside my office. I attempted to pursuade my supervisor to allow me to use my chair with its carrying basket for heavy files. My supervisor refused. I requested an outbox on my desk for files. This was refused.

I was in deep emotional turmoil, as I tried to find a way to safely do my job. I enlisted the assistance of my co-workers to carry files. My co-workers were then ordered not to assist me, even if willing. My emotional state became one of rage. My supervisor was taking away my ability to do my job by not accommodating.

I filed a lawsuit. The results, after 5 years, was the largest entry of judgement for a disability discrimination case anywhere in the world. The case set a new standard in the Federal Government and parallel ADA in the private sector. I felt I must take responsibility for enforcing reasonable accommodation law that other disabled people already had fought so hard for.

Others can now use my case as a precedent in their request for reasonable accommodations. The government offered me more than their current cap, to keep silent about my case. I refused their offer. It was a mighty fine feeling. Letting others know about my case seemed the only logical method of ensuring employers do not use people's disabilities as excuses for rejection of an able person by refusing accommodations.

My story has been in about 20 papers, including the San Francisco Chronicle.

Pauline Horvath, PH7255@webtv.net

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