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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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She was probably a scientologist, too.
Some people will believe anything.
"Oh dear, my wrist hurts"
"It must be carping tunnel syndrome"
"Oh dear, you're right. I'm disabled"
This is going to leave lots of money for research into my malady - carpal penis syndrome.
owned by big business and greed. I'd type more but now my head AND my wrists are starting to ache.
I am a very sick little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I can't. She is crying. Don't cry, Mommy! Mommy is always sad, but she says it's not my fault. I asked her if it was God's fault, but she didn't answer, and only started crying harder, so I don't ask her that anymore. The reason she is so sad is that I'm so sick. I was born without a body. It doesn't hurt, except when I go to sleep.
The doctors gave me an artificial body. My body is a burlap bag filled with leaves. The doctors said that was the best they could do on account of us havin' no money or insurance. I would like to have a body transplant, but we need more money. Mommy doesn't work because she said employers don't hire crying people. I said, "Don't cry, Mommy," and she hugged my burlap body. Mommy always gives me hugs, even though she's allergic to burlap, and it chafes her real bad.
I hope you will help me. You can help me if you forward this e-mail. Dr. Johansen said if you foward this e-mail then Bill Gates will team up with AOL and do a survey with NASA. Then the astronauts will collect prayers from school children all over America and take them up to space so that the angels can hear them better. Then they will go to the Pope, and he will take up a collection in church and send the money to the doctors. The doctors could help me better then.
Maybe one day I will be able to play baseball. Or maybe just use my lungs and heart, when the doctors make them. The doctors said that every time you foward this letter, the astronauts can take another prayer to the angels. Please help me. Mommy is so sad, and I want a body. I don't want my leaves to rot before I turn 10.
If you don't foward this e-mail, that's OK. Mommy says you're a mean heartless person who doesn't care about a poor little boy with only a head. She says that she hopes that you stew in the raw pit of your own guilt-ridden stomach. What kind of wretched person are you that you can't take five lousy minutes to forward this to all your friends so that they can feel guilt and shame for the rest of their day, and then maybe help a poor, bodiless nine-year-old boy?
Please help me. This really sucks. I try to be happy but it's hard. I wish
I had a puppy. I wish I could hold a puppy.
Thank You.
Billy 'Smiles' Evans,
The boy with just a head.
And a burlap sack for a body.
Yeah! CTS has severly impared my major life activity of having a tug! I'm gonna sue.
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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
"Congratulations, Boots. Your robot has become self-aware. You're a daddy now." -- Dr. Rho Bowman
*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?
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that was his point, faggot
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK