According to you, helping somebody is a waste of time? Suppose there is a
poor man who has a very good ability of doing business. To start with, he
needs only RS 100 which he doesn't have. Now as far as you or people like
you, will not concede him that amount because your logic is, why should you
waste your hard-earned money on him.
This gentleman from Pune, only needs somebody to guide him to move around.In
the conference he can exhibit his technical expertise thereby making the
name of his company.
But he can not do this, as long as there are people like his boss and
people like you, who think that if he is not independent in moving about,
his being a expert technician is useless. Mahesh is only blind but, suppose,
there is some scientist of a very high stature, but he has lost his both
legs. As per your view, he must never be allowed to attend any seminars or
conferences because he would need somebody to push his wheelchair around.
Why should you waste your precious time for him? --- Original Message -----
From: "Srinivasu Chakravarthula" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Geetha Shamanna"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] behaviour of my superior
Why is not a problem, if someone do not have mobility skills? Yes,
saying is easy that someone can holh his hand, why should someone has
to invest time to hold him all the time? While we talk about equal
opportunities, when there is possibility, why not we should have
skills of independence?
On 9/26/10, namdeo2000 <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't understand what you are talking. If he is not good at his
mobility
so what? Only because somebody will have to hold his hand and guide him,
he
should be deprived of this opportunity? Being not able to move about
independently and to be an expert technocrat have no connection
whatsoever.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geetha Shamanna" gee...@millernorbert.
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] behaviour of my superior
Hi Mahesh,
Please do not get me wrong for asking you these questions, but how
independent are you? Do you travel to work and move around within the
office
on your own? Do you use a white cane? Do you travel independently
outside
Pune on your own, be it for official or private purposes?
The impression colleagues at work have of us blind people is to a large
extent dependent on the way we conduct ourselves. If a blind person
requires
assistance to move around within the office or to commute to work,
colleagues will always assume that blind people are dependent. It is not
their fault entirely; that blind person in their office might be the
only
blind person they have come across in their whole existence.
Instead of going to the press and publicising this issue, what is
probably
required here is for you to have a long and candid talk with your
superior
and try and convince him that you are capable of looking after yourself
during the US trip, and that you will not be excessively dependent on
the
colleagues traveling with you. You can also ask him to specifically list
out
his reservations; you can then address them individually. If you have
traveled alone previously, tell him how you did so and how independently
you
dealt with the situation. It won't be easy, but each of us will have to
fight this battle on our own.
Finally, if he is not sufficiently convinced and does not agree to send
you
to the conference, do not give up. Whenever opportunities to travel to
local
conferences or other events within Pune or other parts of India arise,
be
the first one to apply. He may not be averse to sending you to local
events;
so make full use of it and try to be as independent as possible during
these
events. You will then notice how your superior's impression of you
changes.
Geetha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mahesh Shah" <[email protected]>
To: "accessindia" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 5:45 AM
Subject: [AI] behaviour of my superior
Dear Friends--
I am writing to this list after a long time. I wish to tell you an
incident happened in my office , which shocked me.
Every year, a delegation goes from my office, C-DAC, to participate in
SuperComputing conference in USA. This year I put my self-nomination
for this. I am the most qualified and most senior person for the job.
But my boss called me for a one-to-one discussion and informed me that
it will be 'embarrasing' to send a person (VI) like me in . the
delegation. Because I will require someone's support and will hold
someone's hand. Also if some accident happens to me because of my
disability, he and office will be hold responsible for why they sent
such a person.
I was really shocked and upset with the behaviour. Then I withdrew my
nomination for participation in the conference.
Friends, I want to show you that how these learned so-called superiors
fail to understand the VI peoples aspirations and behave in such a
nonsense way.
Thanks for sharing my concerns.
Mahesh Shah
Pune
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