This I know, Because The State tells me so!
My employer, on the other hand, won’t find out unless they try to fire me.
Via SoundPolitics, comes the news that the Washington State Legislature will be holding hearings to see if they can change the definition of “Disability” in regards to hiring and firing laws.
This is what they are thinking of including:
(c) [A disability] is perceived to exist whether or not it exists in fact.
A disability exists whether it is temporary or permanent, common or uncommon, mitigated or unmitigated, or whether or not it limits the ability to work generally or work at a particular job or whether or not it limits any other activity within the scope of this chapter.
I was born a poor black child (thank you Steve Martin).
That is my disability. I was actually born a poor white child, but if I perceive myself as a member of the different race and that it is a disability to me, then it would have to be so in the state’s eyes, and any attempt to fire me could be met with an racial discrimination lawsuit.
But in all seriousness, this could get very out of hand in the wrong hands.
For instance, my I have an in-law who believes that she has Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Every doctor that the state sends her to for her L&I claim states that she has nothing of the sort, but she is still trying to claim L&I money for it. Under this definition, if she believes she has it, she unequivocably does and the state would have to pay her.
That is exactly what I don’t want: More people leeching off my tax money.
Could Bush Derangement Syndrome be considered a disability? Ask a few psychologists, and they might say yes; after all, they were treating people in 2004 for post-election stress trauma or some such. If so, liberals and leftists may finally admit to having it so they can leech disability money off the gvt.
Legalizing goldbricking?
Gawd, I’d better get some goo synthetic lube oil and take it up to my dad’s gravesite and lube his casket trunnions. His spin rate has got to be 30,000 RPM this morning.
As a Navy doctor of the “old School”, he was death on goldbrickers, which were legion in Sick Call aboard ship. Every swabbie tried goldbricking at least once, which made for a large percentage of those in line at Sick Call. He considered it his Navy duty to make sure that the first time they presented themselves falsely for Sick Call was their last.