Heavy machinery, strict health and safety requirements, fast working pace, needing to keep up and coordinate as a team. Some common sense has to prevail.
Quote:
Myotonic dystrophy is a form of muscular dystrophy which affects [muscles](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/muscles) and organs in the body, causing progressive muscle degeneration with weakness and shrinkage of muscle tissue.
Difficult-Break-8282 on
how the hell did he manage to do a 9 month internship as a binman? who the hell told him at the end of it to apply for a job and gave him the expectation that he would be a shoo in ?
like what the fuck is this useless article ?
Edayumz on
People with disabilities are exploited by being given false hope of long-term employment. The employers get free labour and the opportunity to virtue signal about inclusiveness without having to pay a penny. It’s a massive grift.
evolveandprosper on
Muscular Dystrophy is a progressive, muscle-wasting disease. His already limited ability can only diminish over time. Refuse disposal work is physically demanding. There is NO WAY he would ever qualify for full-time employment in such a role. The job also involves being in the vicinity of heavy machinery. A person with ADHD is not well-suited to such an environment. A person with both Muscular Dystrophy AND ADHD is wholly unsuited. The “working for free” is disingenuous – he would have been “working” under supervision on simple, light duties NOT doing the full range of tasks.
His mother s quoted as saying “***While Bryan can do it***, we want him to do it, because ***there might be a time where his myotonic dystrophy will pop up and stop him*****.**”. Even she recognises his limitations. However, her use of “might” is disingenuous – there **WILL** be such a time.
seeitshaveitsorted on
There’s got to be some middle ground?
Pay him cash in hand or something, bro 😂
He’s showing such positive motivation.
LyingFacts on
Is there not maybe a concern he may get attached to the bit that lifts the bins, perhaps?
Belle_TainSummer on
Well, duh. Why pay him when he’s already doing the work, but for nothing.
That is just bad economics.
(joking, but also kinda acknowledging the dark truth underlying the joke too)
Reverend_Vader on
I know a headteacher with a son with disabilities that was trying to get him on the bins, he went to the interview with his gran to be told they couldn’t let him work there (learning DB)
I also know the manager of the bins in my town so…..
I had to explain to her that the speed these guys go, in and out of the roadway at speed for 5hrs every day is not a job that would have had her son coming home safely everyday
On top of that it also means one of the crew always has to have one eye on the worker
People see binning as just wheeling their bin outside of their garden when it reality, it’s being tuned in 100% to everything going on around you
Otherwise you have a bin in the head that flys off the lift, some cunt driving down the pavement at you as they can’t wait
It is a very easy job to get seriously hurt at if your disability (physical or mental) slows you down
My manager mate gets about 10 requests a year for disabled people to work on the bins, to him that’s just losing 1.5 staff members if he agrees
When I worked for the council we had lots of disabled people working on the street cleaning services
You always spent more time keeping your eye on them than doing work, which back then was fine as you did about 3hrs worth of work a day, now there is nobody left to do the work, nevermind supervising someone
There is no such thing as free
wjw75 on
The unpaid “internship” was no doubt the result of his sharp-elbowed mother petitioning the council on his behalf, and she’s been indulged by some well-meaning council staff with a make-a-wish style experience to make the guy happy.
Now that it’s over, and the council obviously aren’t willing to take on that additional level of supervision and risk full-time, the mother’s obviously now gone to the press with her story.
Lifeintheguo on
Disabled person actually wants to work, can’t get a job. Meanwhile numerous faking and scrounging benefits.
Inside_Union_6594 on
Obviously stories like this have absolutely no connection to the weekly ‘benefits bill for disabled balloons’ headline
Flat_Revolution5130 on
This is becoming to common. They are free labor. Then when it comes to paying them, they just chuck them out.
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Heavy machinery, strict health and safety requirements, fast working pace, needing to keep up and coordinate as a team. Some common sense has to prevail.
Quote:
Myotonic dystrophy is a form of muscular dystrophy which affects [muscles](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/muscles) and organs in the body, causing progressive muscle degeneration with weakness and shrinkage of muscle tissue.
how the hell did he manage to do a 9 month internship as a binman? who the hell told him at the end of it to apply for a job and gave him the expectation that he would be a shoo in ?
like what the fuck is this useless article ?
People with disabilities are exploited by being given false hope of long-term employment. The employers get free labour and the opportunity to virtue signal about inclusiveness without having to pay a penny. It’s a massive grift.
Muscular Dystrophy is a progressive, muscle-wasting disease. His already limited ability can only diminish over time. Refuse disposal work is physically demanding. There is NO WAY he would ever qualify for full-time employment in such a role. The job also involves being in the vicinity of heavy machinery. A person with ADHD is not well-suited to such an environment. A person with both Muscular Dystrophy AND ADHD is wholly unsuited. The “working for free” is disingenuous – he would have been “working” under supervision on simple, light duties NOT doing the full range of tasks.
His mother s quoted as saying “***While Bryan can do it***, we want him to do it, because ***there might be a time where his myotonic dystrophy will pop up and stop him*****.**”. Even she recognises his limitations. However, her use of “might” is disingenuous – there **WILL** be such a time.
There’s got to be some middle ground?
Pay him cash in hand or something, bro 😂
He’s showing such positive motivation.
Is there not maybe a concern he may get attached to the bit that lifts the bins, perhaps?
Well, duh. Why pay him when he’s already doing the work, but for nothing.
That is just bad economics.
(joking, but also kinda acknowledging the dark truth underlying the joke too)
I know a headteacher with a son with disabilities that was trying to get him on the bins, he went to the interview with his gran to be told they couldn’t let him work there (learning DB)
I also know the manager of the bins in my town so…..
I had to explain to her that the speed these guys go, in and out of the roadway at speed for 5hrs every day is not a job that would have had her son coming home safely everyday
On top of that it also means one of the crew always has to have one eye on the worker
People see binning as just wheeling their bin outside of their garden when it reality, it’s being tuned in 100% to everything going on around you
Otherwise you have a bin in the head that flys off the lift, some cunt driving down the pavement at you as they can’t wait
It is a very easy job to get seriously hurt at if your disability (physical or mental) slows you down
My manager mate gets about 10 requests a year for disabled people to work on the bins, to him that’s just losing 1.5 staff members if he agrees
When I worked for the council we had lots of disabled people working on the street cleaning services
You always spent more time keeping your eye on them than doing work, which back then was fine as you did about 3hrs worth of work a day, now there is nobody left to do the work, nevermind supervising someone
There is no such thing as free
The unpaid “internship” was no doubt the result of his sharp-elbowed mother petitioning the council on his behalf, and she’s been indulged by some well-meaning council staff with a make-a-wish style experience to make the guy happy.
Now that it’s over, and the council obviously aren’t willing to take on that additional level of supervision and risk full-time, the mother’s obviously now gone to the press with her story.
Disabled person actually wants to work, can’t get a job. Meanwhile numerous faking and scrounging benefits.
Obviously stories like this have absolutely no connection to the weekly ‘benefits bill for disabled balloons’ headline
This is becoming to common. They are free labor. Then when it comes to paying them, they just chuck them out.