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Last week, I attended a presentation by << >>, Founder and Managing Director of a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) company called << >> in Bangalore, India, where more than 90 percent of the staff are differently enabled.
Some highlights of her presentation:
- About the hearing-impaired members of her staff; there is no external disturbance to them, since they don't hear - they work with full focus / concentration; their world is completely silent.
- About the vision-impaired staff members, they possess very high memory.
- Some of the staff cannot walk - they work from wheel-chairs (meaning that the wheel chair is their office sitting chair). Because of difficult physical mobility, they stay at their workspots for long time intervals.
- The office, on the overall, is silent, since most of the members communicate in "sign-language". Because of the hearing impaired persons there, the non-hearing impaired also have learnt to communicate with the same sign-language.
- Some of these differently-enabled staff members are post-graduates.
- With these differently enabled staff members, she is able to achieve high deliverable quality.
- This company has combined "business with philanthropy".
Especially in a country with no such a high social security, this is remarkable.
One of the audience mentioned that "each of us is differently enabled"; just that some are more differently enabled than others. Do you agree?
Do you have such companies in your country? Do differently enabled people lead a reasonably good life in your country?
[edit]Link removed to avoid spam reports - OriginalGriff[/edit]
modified 24-Nov-14 10:26am.
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I'm sorry but the explanations she gave about the employees give me the creeps.
there is no external disturbance to them, since they don't hear - they work with full focus / concentration;
About the vision-impaired staff members, they possess very high memory
Because of difficult physical mobility, they stay at their workspots for long time intervals
The office, on the overall, is silent,
They all make me think to exploitment rather than valorization. He cannot move so he stays longer at the desk sounds like [please don't take any words of the following seriously] "niggers are naturally inclined to hard work and obedience".
It gives me the creeps 
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I take it this is supposed to be some sort of joke. Though for the life of me I cannot see what's funny about disabilities.
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I dunno. I am differently enabled (as are most of the people I used to work with). I have The Knack[^]
I'm retired from the place but I still have it.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Well, in Germany there is a rate(5%) each company should achieve with "different enabled" people to give them a chance to work.
Sadly, the fines for ignoring the rate do cost less than employing some one.(most times)
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I just threw up a little in the back of my throat. Low tolerance for such PC crap. 
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I was attempting to give a detailed response as someone with hearing difficulties.
But PIEBALDConsulant gave the best response.
what utter PC codswallop! I would rather be employed on the skills I have than be a special project for the company.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Wow Kudo's to for raising their morale by calling them 'differently enabled' I expect that makes them feel so much better about their disabilities. It's like they are Mutants with super-powers.
Tell me did she mention anything about the 'normally enabled' staff purposely blinding or maiming themselves in order to make themselves differently enabled? To me that could be the only downside to this approach
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I applaud this.
(I do not know why some people are saying it's too PC. What exactly is the axe you're grinding?)
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effayqueue wrote: I do not know why some people are saying it's too PC.
Read what this person was saying about her employees, drawing attention to their disabilities. Could not be more patronising if she tried.
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Avijnata wrote: more than 90 percent of the staff are differently enabled
What? They can master magnetism, heal amazingly quickly, things like that?
Reading that, what keeps screaming out at me is, paying lower than market rate to people who you deem will be just grateful for a job. I don't read that as philanthropy. To me, that smacks of rampant exploitation.
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There was this company called ReHab in the Washington, DC area in the 1970s. They made a habit of hiring quite a few physically disabled persons. The company used to contract for the Federal government.
Someone said that the founder was disabled in a car accident and that gave him the impetus to start a company that actively solicited disabled persons for employment.
Nothing wrong with that. It is not PC (politically correct)crap. It is not exploiting the disabled. It is a way of recognizing that they also have the right to be productive employees.
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Avijnata wrote: Do you have such companies in your country?
Oh, boy, do we.
Avijnata wrote: This company has combined "business with philanthropy".
Yeah, we got a lot of those. It is called "marketing". A business is not a philantropical institution. Its purpose is profit.
Avijnata wrote: About the vision-impaired staff members, they possess very high memory.
That's some generalization there.
I'm technically considered a "disabled" person. That is NOT the same as differently abled - the latter is a perversion of the political correct idiots that think that it sounds negative to call someone "disabled". People that use terms like "differently abled" have a pshylogical disability, a perverted need for positivism.
We, in the real world, name sh*t as it is. We learn to discriminate between warm and cold so we can survive fires and winters. Don't talk about "different temperatured seasons" or you'll get a long-sleeve sweater. One with very long sleeves.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Like you Eddy, I would be technically classified as disabled. Wishy washy language like this just annoys the crap out of me - when I was younger, I had a brief moment of madness where I considered looking to the army to be sponsored through university and into Sandhurst. I flunked the physical purely because of my disability - and they didn't sugar coat it as me being "differently abled". As far as they were concerned, I would not even be worthy of being called up in times of National Service.
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I've just done my pisspot renewal online. Now well done gov.uk for getting this process online, as I have to provide so much information my fingers would have fallen off writing it all. Actually for a renewal I think I provided less data then I would to sign up for the average web site!
Now, I just need to get some pirdy snaps and post this stuff off to Liverpool. I hope nothing gets nicked. 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I just need to get some pirdy snaps
Remember: your passport photo must:
0) Not contain a smile
1) Bear as little resemblance to you as possible.
2) Make you look like a terrorist or paedophile, preferably both at the same time.
3) Not look like you spent 4 hours in the airport bar before take off (this is to comply with (1) above).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh Passport, I had no idea what you what you were talking about.
On the plus side, I heard that processing is much quicker now after the fiasco earlier this year.
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You have to excuse Nagy: he's foreign... 
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Sadly too true. Singaporian, Irish, British and Hungarian. Wherever I go I am at least 75% forn!
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And the other 25% Gin?
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That would imply that gin is ubiquitous in its nationality. This brings to mind jynnian tonnix, although the thought of Nagy in a bath with his rubber duck is somewhat disquieting.
... isn't Nagy always MORE than 25% gin?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: the thought of Nagy in a bath with his rubber duck
Mind bleach! I need mind bleach...
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OriginalGriff wrote: 3) Not look like you spent 4 hours in the airport bar before take off (this is to comply with (1) above).
Is the man capable of such short stays?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Depends on whether he is travelling with the ickles or not... 
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