you apply for work the evening before you get it a call from the manager wanting to interview you, everything is going great and he wants you to come in the next day for an interview until you mention you are in a wheelchair and suddenly the walls come down. He tell s you to come in anyways and the next morning just before you leave here your e-mail program beep! You're on your way out the door and figure okay I'll get it when I get home you then are right for your interview only to find that the manageris not there and the assistant manager does not have the employment application for you to fill out . Basically you waste a couple hours and what's worse the assistant manager tells you they are still hiring, and when you get home you can find the e-mail sent that morning saying the position has been filled.
And because of what the assistant manager said you knows is not true, everything was going fine until you mentioned your wheelchair. And there is the job ads you answer, that say to drop off your resume. The only problem is when you get there. No wheelchair access to the store and the manager shrugs their shoulders and says oh well Rogers chocolate in Gastown is an example of this they had a help wanted sign right now in their window and no wheelchair access even for customers or so it seems and unfortunately this situation is nothing unusual.
There are a lot of stores in the gvrd that are like this despite the human rights act the store operators or building owners cannot be bothered to put in a simple plywood ramp for wheelchairs. I spoke to one lady who is disabled and uses a cane, she does taxes in new Westminster and a lot of her clients are disabled people in wheelchairs she told me she is asked and asked her landlord to put in a simple plywood ramp so her customers in wheelchairs can get into her office and he keep refusing because it would cost him a few hundred dollars ! What is wrong with our society that gives so much lip service to empowering our disabled citizens yet when push comes to shove the same society and individuals are not willing to back up their words with actions
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