Name: Disabled employee work dramas! With WheelsNoHeels [CC]
Uploaded: 2020-04-06T07:57:05.000Z
Duration: 12 min 46 s
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J: Hello, lovely people! And welcome to Gem's house!

To-infinitive

J: This is the first in--we're doing a little collab, so they're all going to be about work and disability.

J: This is going to be a kind of spilling the tea/gossiping about -

(it's not actually something I say, but I saw it on the internet)

- gossiping all about the bad working situations we've found ourselves in before.

J: And then part two will be on Gem's channel,

J: So, let's begin with a little explanation -

a tiny explanation; a brief explanation -

G: OK, mine, I can really wrap up in a little nutshell. J: Ooo, go.

J: Always impressed when people can do that.

G: So, when I was nine, I had major heart surgery that went just a little bit wrong.

and as a result of the internal bleeding and lack of oxygen,

I suffered a T10 incomplete spinal cord injury.

J: I have a genetic--I have two genetic disabilities, one which affects my nerves

G: OK, so, my first ever job: I have actually worked from the age of sixteen

G: Yeah, it was really tiny and pokey, but I just about managed,

G: I only did four hours there, so I was like...

G: [Mimics straining to control bladder] J: Holding it in!

G: I also had a job on a check-out. J: Mmhm.

J: How dare they make you work on a Saturday?

G: But, on the Tuesday it was Student Night,

(J: Oh, no!) G: so every Wednesday I had to work, so I was hung-over.

and then I'd have to go to work on the Saturday, hung-over.

J: So you always went to work hung-over? G: Yep!

G: And then every Saturday was another Rock Night at another club,

so I wold have to go to my other job hung-over.

J: I feel like any working problems you had in that moment is nothing to do with disability;

G: Then I got more of an office role. J: Mmhm.

G: I found the hours got too much at one point. J: Mmhm.

G: They changed the hours, as well, so that they were more manageable,

so I didn't have to be in at like 07:30 in the morning.

G: Guys from the loading bay would come and help me in and out of the building

There wasn't a proper lift; it was a goods lift.

J: My sixth form had a - I was in a wheelchair at the time

for about a year, I think - and they had a lift

but they didn't legally have to turn the lift on.

J: And it was an energy drain, so they never turned it on.

So they just had to get the strongest people from my class to lift my wheelchair up the stairs, with me in it.

G: So they were really, really good in some senses of the word.

J: Now, now get to the bad stuff. Come on.

G: Let's get to the c--I'm sorry. J: It's all we're here for.

G: One day--I had the most amazing manager.

And he was obviously head-hunted and had to go off.

G: We were all having water at our desks;

and then a thing came in where it all had to be labelled with your name and it had to be labelled "water,"

G: in case anybody drank something and it was... J: Vodka?

J: Who was keeping like a bottle of straight vodka at their desk? Like..

G: That was that, and then, all of a sudden, there was this big sort of rule that came in

that, unless you had a note from your doctor, saying that you needed water...

J: What? Oh, my God, Clara's dying! G: Clara's freaking out!

J: Clara's dying in the corner. G: Do you know what, darling?

G: Because they said, "Oh, you can go and get a drink of water...

but you'd have to go and get it, drink it in the canteen, and then come back to your desk."

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