Carpal Tunnel Syndrome not a Disability

An Anonymous Coward writes: "It turns out that the Supreme Court of the United States doesn't think Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a real disability. See here for details." Read the summary or the whole opinion. In a nutshell: just because a woman was sufficiently disabled that she couldn't perform her job due to carpal-tunnel, doesn't mean she was sufficiently disabled to be considered disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Everyone who has that nagging pain in your wrists should probably read this decision.

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This woman in the article -- NOT OT!!

[Xanlexian]

If memory serves me correctly, this is the woman that "can not perform her job properly" anymore. She got CT from masturbating, she is a phone sex operator. She made news here in the Atlanta area a few months back.

Now, I'm only assuming this is the same woman, since what was mentioned here in the Atlanta area said that she was going to take this thing all the way to the Supreme Court and sue under the ADA.

The system is flawed because nitwits like this keep abusing the system.

On a different note, I'm very double-jointed -- many years back, I tried to join the Army. I aced the ASVAB, but failed the physical due to "extreme double-jointedness". The army doctor/nurse/whatever-he-was gave me papers to get a handicap tag for my car... Never used it. I can walk just fine... It's shit like this that pisses me off.

--Xan

You know, its amazing how many people

[Richthofen80]

*want* to be disabled. People fighting for jobs that they can't do, and they want a company to make the job somehow 'doable' for them.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and other repetitive strain injuries suck. But Toyota and other companies need certain tasks to be performed... tasks too expensive to automate robotically or otherwise. And its just plain smart business sense to hire and retain people who can do jobs, as opposed to people who can't. Actually, Toyota moved the woman involved in this case to an easier, less straining job. But eventually, all tasks become repetitive...

If a pilot of a jetliner for a major airline goes blind, are we outraged if he is fired or forced into retirement? Or are special neural implants required for this man's disability, much like in Star Trek? Listen, its too bad people get disabled... but that's all it is, *too bad*. It doesn't become a companies responsibility to tend to this person's every need. All a job is, is a contract to give one person money in exchange for services.

Otherwise, Wouldn't Schitzophrenia or Turrets Syndrome be a disability? Would you want a schitzophrenic or a Turrets person doing sales for your company?

Re:What a joke.

[duffbeer703]

that was his point, faggot