NatalyaD
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NatalyaD's Bio
I am a deaf and disabled cis bi woman living in the UK. I am interested in disability rights practice and law, assistive technology, cats (always cats) and I am fuelled by lots of tea.
My profile picture is a red lizard for no reason other than I like it.
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 Isn't this just likely to push house prices EVEN higher as well as cause scary debt issues...
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I think so...
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 the hard way, I lost my job but did make them pay...
And the next two I was more prepared for the nasty games... So I ran my claims like a metronome, ignoring the bullshit and making them belatedly cough up... Doesn't help the career tho when university disability depts blatantly discriminate against disabled applicants and can't get the very basics right... Esp one offered a job in part for "legal knowledge"...
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Yes, 'nasty games' is a good term for it; I've seen it from afar & been involved a couple of times, once with a toxic HoD who's 2 years doing the bidding of the top management, resulted in a wrecked Dept., a number of formal complaints (which didn't go well) & an exodus of staff... thankfully, I'm now out of all that
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 The description of HR vibes. Maliciously incompetent was how I described them.
Lets the managers pretend they are the good guys and HR is "just following the rules".
Amazing how much maliciousness, spite, incompetence and outright lies are "following the rules".
I got told off by a lawyer for calling it all out. No regrets tho. Even though HR weaponised white lady tears "you're bullying our staff"... We didn't have the word/acronym DARVO then, cos if we had, I'd have sent it!
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 I have also pointed at a lot of the #MeToo stuff for NDAs when challenging them saying this applies very similarly and that it isn't me being "legally unreasonable" (lawyers rarely grok it) but knowing I won't keep to it, so shouldn't sign up to it.
Universities were cited as specifically nasty litigants in a review of disability discrimination cases in about 2007 before DRC became the useless EHRC.
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yes, its the disconnect between their claim to be enlightened workplaces & their actual actions that always annoyed me - university HR departments are frequently a nest of vipers doing top managers' dirty work for them
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 I'd ban them for discrimination too, cos universities widely use it to shut people down and the power imbalance stinks.
I have 1 NDA I've not 100% kept cos it was really breaking my sanity and I'm past caring.
I have since refused 2 NDAs in discrim cases against 2 other universities. NDA is a hard no for me, it's too psychologically damaging and yes I did hurl citations at the relevant entities. They did not like it, but I got some degree of compromise both times.
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Glad to hear you got some satisfaction.... I know too many people who were put through the ringer, though
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@ChrisMayLA6 I have also pointed at a lot of the #MeToo stuff for NDAs when challenging them saying this applies very similarly and that it isn't me being "legally unreasonable" (lawyers rarely grok it) but knowing I won't keep to it, so shouldn't sign up to it.
Universities were cited as specifically nasty litigants in a review of disability discrimination cases in about 2007 before DRC became the useless EHRC.
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I work with disabled university students in England, UK.
One thing UK disability advisers do is write a disability adjustments/support plan document.
One of my PhD students added to the "official plan" and developed their own format plan with their PhD supervision team about their access needs, barriers, supportive actions and solutions.
Student told me "I need both: Your plan holds staff formally accountable to the university. Our plan holds the PhD team accountable to one another."
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