Chick-Fil-A Accused of Bias Against Disabled

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Business obsession with customer service, these places want stepford wives working for them not actual people. SMILE

the slow death of western civilization

I can't stand that restaurant for various reasons,

But....

I know I know of three people employed by them, two have Aspergers and the other person has bipolar disorder.

That particular store has went out of their way in schedules and holding jobs open when two of the people wound up in inpatient psych hospitalization.

I am friends with one of the mothers of those adults. When her child was hospitalized, she was so worried they'd fire her child. The manager actually called HER, and told her not to worry. The store would hold the position for him/her.

If you can't stand corporate because their food is gross to you, it's okay. That's a preference. I get the corporate owner has a big yap about being anti-gay. I would rather know up front and personal the person is bigot than have them smile and still discriminated on the down low.

Having one person hollering a store wouldn't hiring him (that manager would have to have an IQ of a bag of hammers to do that in this day and age) because of a disability, I need to see the receipts on that one.

Especially when the local Chick-fil-As do make an effort to hire the disabled and veterans around me.

Every time someone tells a person with Autism "no" doesn't mean they are a bigot of the first order and need to be crucified upside down. There is a big difference between "We don't hire autistics" and "We don't want to hire you because we can tell off the bat you wouldn't survive 5 minutes at the register during lunch rush, even with three months of training." Training costs money, and companies loathed to sink a ton of time and cash only to have the person flame out in two days, two weeks or two months.

ETA: I reread the article.

Working at Baker's Square is a totally different deal than working at Chick-fil-As. It's comparing working a sit down restaurant to fast food.

Kwon basically did clean up work. Had he done any food preparation, serving or cashing out, I would hope his case manager would have piped that up.

Chick-fil-As is like working at Mc Donald's. There are no clean up, sweep the floor, bus trays back jobs. You may start there, but in two months you'll get tossed on the register and food preparation. Your job is to learn everything except what is only done by the manager. It's called learning and doing 20 things at once.

The manager is a moron. All he had to say is the job at his store out not be a good fit for Kwon. If Kwon had a set little schedule, and got to go through his to do list with minimal pressure, no fast food is nothing like that at all.

It isn't so much that the guy is disabled, but his previous job didn't prepare him much for the one he wanted.

People forget that the first order of business is to make money.

So much for Christianity ... This was supposed to be another one of those Christian butthurt type companies, like the type that bluntly say they won't serve gays or something. Man Christians make themselves look so bad that its sickening ...

Yea, these are the same folks who say they don't wanna serve gays food or something ...

A company, not paying family-friendly wages, is an inept example of Christianity.

You have physical needs, including a sex drive -- not, once you have climbed the social ladder. Now. What is the only possible outcome for working there.

The company is a social ill, causing illegitimacy.

All that being said...

Is a service profession a good career choice, for an autistic person, or what reasonable accommodations can be made.

If you are unhirable, due to your inability to cope, why do you bait an employer and alert the press.

I don't want people, who look and act like me, to play the martyr.