Karen Boss Forbids Employee's Use Of Hearing Aids, Employee Can't Hear Anything, Obviously

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    Font - Posted by u/xKatastrophex 2 days ago 24 Hearing aids # Earbuds oc M This happened a few years ago, around the time I was 17. I had just started working at a small-ish cafe run by a well known family in our area. I knew some people who had worked there before and they told me for the most part the owners were great, very chill and laid back when it was slow and normally weren't bad about breathing down the employees' necks. Their oldest daughter who also helped run everything was the one w
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    Font - I am officially diagnosed with a hearing deficiency: Not enough to be considered deaf, but more than hard-of- hearing, so I wear hearing aids. My first day before we opened my coworkers asked me if they could do anything else to help me out, and we eventually started talking about the hearing aids in general. While talking about everything I mentioned they had Bluetooth capabilities so I could play music through them. Not that I WOULD, but I COULD.
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    Font - Karen had been in the room at the time, and said "You can't wear those, no earbud policy." and tapped on the policies paper on the wall. I protested, explaining they're hearing aids and not earbuds, and that I wouldn't be using them to listen to any music while I was working. Her reasoning was I didn't “NEED" them because I wasn't considered fully deaf, and I was doing this to get around the no earbud policy, directly quoting when I said they could play music. I can't wear them? Okay, let
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    Font - I couldn't understand my trainer, couldn't hear the customers, couldn't hear when orders were called to be sent out. Things were going extremely slow, a couple of warmed pastries burnt since I wasn't able to hear the timers. Simple sentences had to be repeated multiple times with people basically yelling at me just for me to be able to piece a few words together. I guess the cherry on top was me "ignoring" one of the owners when she tried speaking to me. Karen came up to me and tried addr
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    Human body - - EIBodster · 2 days ago Disability discrimination. Not sure where in the world you are, but in many places this would very much be against the law.
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    Font - Sc00padifuego - 2 days ago This makes me deliciously happy, even if I'm sorry you had to deal with that woman. Being unable to hear complaints after being told you don't need to be able to hear is just such an... obvious blunder by Karen here, and you got to rub it in their face without even having to try Imao.
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    Font - mizinamo - 2 days ago Should have told customers, "I'm sorry, I can't hear you because my trainer has forbidden me from wearing my hearing aids at work." Let the customers complain to the manager!
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    Human body - Hiragirin - 2 days ago That's why I never tell anyone I work with that my hearing aids have Bluetooth. Only my husband and parents know. It's like a fun secret only we know.
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    Font - BuffHagrid - 2 days ago Literally the same exact thing happened to me. I worked for a summer camp that didn't allow counselors to hang onto their phones during the week. My hearing aids connected to my phone so I can adjust the different settings and crap, so I got permission from the camp Director to keep my phone during the week. The counselor lead however went on a power trip and told me that I had to turn my phone in. I cited the ADA codes but he wouldn't budge. I turned in my phone f

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