Reply To: When employers won’t, or can’t help

[Patte Rosebank]

Oh, @Evelyn, I’m so sorry.

I know how frustrating it is when you have to educate employers, and doctors, and family members, and so many of them just don’t want to know.  You can’t argue with a closed mind.  And it appears your former employer had a VERY closed mind.

By refusing to bend its rigid policies, even after seeing they didn’t work for you, and being told what would work for you, that company hurt you…but it hurt itself even more.

You “only” lost a job (and there’s no “only” about that).

But that company lost what would have been a very good employee, and it lost potential customers (because you’ll never give it any business, or recommend it to anyone),  and now it has to recruit and train another employee (a very expensive process, so you’d think it would have tried to make the most of that investment in you).

Is there another company in that line of work, near you?  You might also want to talk to your local employment centre, and the local agency that helps people with disabilities.  They can give you encouragement and advice.

They might even have some incentive programs for employers who hire people with disabilities.  ADHD is a learning disability, so you may qualify.  At the very least, they can help you to explain to a potential employer that the only difference between you and any other employee is that you learn differently.

You can do it!

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