Of odds and ends...

[quidditchgrrl]

Two words for Jim Tressel:  Troy Smith.

I love Foxfire/Mozilla and want to have its little BBC news headline babies.

Renee Zellweger - so much with the haaaaate.  Anyone who gets to kiss both Colin Firth and Hugh Grant like that should just be struck dead.

I have barely started my submission for smutty_claus.  It's due on the 25th.  *thud*  Gotta work quick and stop playing on LJ *smacks own hands*

I take umbrage at the notion that a child can be "ruined."  Get your kid some counseling and stop acting as if he's gonna end up on Jerry Springer, or he surely will.

Quizilla will not let me connect so I cannot take the "Gryffindor Hunk of Burning Love" or "To Which Work of Fiction on My Shelf are You Most Similar?" quizzes.  Woe.  :((





First off, I'm all about ADA accomodation.  If it can be done, it ought to be done.

But when do you give up the ghost and quit pretending that someone can do the job they were hired to do?

I have a shelver who has a lot of health problems.  A LOT.  Like serious, uncontrolled epilepsy.  And diabetes.  And arthritis.  And double vision.  And now spells of dizziness and falling.  She was off for a month having her epilepsy meds adjusted.  Then a week for a strain.  Then two weeks with a lung infection.  Now she's having episodes of vertigo and falling.  She's been cleared by her doctor to return to work performing sit down work only for the next month.

Did I mention that she's a shelver?  Not one part of her job can be accomplished while sitting down.  She is not able to use/operate a computer in anything approaching a competent manner.  If she moves too fast, she falls down (which she told me tonight on the phone).  I'm having visions of her falling off a chair and breaking her hip.  >.<

She's been a serious HR problem for almost two years.  What she does is, she cycles through with bad behavior (mainly from not being able to control her seizures and episodes of low blood sugar) until she's disciplined, then she'll straighten up for anywhere from two weeks to two months.  Then she slides back into her old behavior.

In short, I've not had a shelver in her position for the last six months.  She's just a placeholder because she can't perform the functions of her job in any productive way (and it will be literally true when she runs out of vacation time next week).

This is a nightmare, to say the least.  And HR says we have to try to accomodate her and try to train her to check in reserves (which is in no way, shape or form a function of her job).  *headdesk*  It has 'lawsuit' written all over it, because we've accomodated her over and over, if we let her go now, what's to keep her from coming back with all those instances and trying to build a case against us?  *thud**thud**thud*

God Taxpayers, please fund the Far North Library soon. 

Comments

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

There are no desk jobs. I work at a library, and her job is to shelve books. That's it, nothing else. The "desk job" she's been assigned by the library manager is one that I am 90% sure she'll not be able to complete successfully.

The library manager prides herself on having people like this lady on staff. Unfortunately no one else is proud of that when they have to work harder to cover the slack left behind.

And yes, if the manager had to deal with her one-on-one, she'd see that there isn't a chance of this lady ever being able to shelve again (she's using a four-pronged cane to get around, just down from a walker, it is). *sigh* It's so frustrating.

The HR director did say she would talk to our lawyers, so I'll have to be sure she does it.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

That's all you can do. Or somehow get everyone but this lady to call in sick and maybe the manager will see that she doesn't get anything done?

Guh. This is a tough situation. Keep us updated? Besides, didn't her doctor say desk work only? If you can't provide her with that, you're off the hook.