How cold-hearted can THEY be??????

[Guest guest]

I don't know how ANYONE could POSSIBLY be this IGNORANT AND COLD-

HEARTED!! I was called into the HR office today (at Target, where I

am a cashier), to talk to my supervisor's boss and the head of HR.

I can understand wanting to make sure that I truly have a disability

and am not just trying to be a freeloader, but this is ABSOLUTELY

POSITIVELY RIDICULOUS!!!!! They are contacting the HR headquarters

to see if letting me sit on a friggin stool while I cashier is a

reasonable accommadation and whether or not the fact that I claim

that I have to sit on the stool in order to cashier is a violation

of my " core roles " . I have a doctor's note saying that I have to

sit on the stool, if I am going to work! For crying out loud! I

even have a doctor's note saying that I have to wear a wrist brace

on each wrist!! They told me that depending on what HR headquarters

says, I may not be allowed to continue using the stool!! Can they

do that? I thought " reasonable accommadation " meant that the

individual needed to have a disability, the accommadation was

necessary for the individual to do the job, and that the

accommadation does not cause " undue hardship " for the business. How

can letting me sit on a stool that they already have for this

purpose (that they had before I ever started working there... it was

just collecting dust in the storage room...), cause " undue

hardship " ? Am I misunderstanding these terms? I just don't

understand. I mean I have better than expected credit card

applications and better than expected cash register speed scores.

What did I do to deserve THIS? If they say that I can't use the

stool anymore, then is there anything I can do? If they don't let

me use that stool, then I won't be able to cashier anymore!! I

absolutely CANNOT stand and lift and do all that cr*p for 4-9 hours

a day! And if they take away the stool, can they say that I'm not

allowed to wear the wrist braces? And/or, can they make me go back

to working 38.5-40 hours a week? Right now, per my doctor, I'm

working 20-30 hours a week. Can they really do THIS? Is this

LEGAL? I guess they didn't really mean it in orientation, when they

said that they want to have DIVERSITY in their team members at EVERY

store. They ACTUALLY defined diversity to include people of

different age groups, gender, religious affiliation, sexual

orientation, race, disability status, etc. They ACTUALLY SAID

DISABILITY STATUS!!! I came so close to crying! And they did it

halfway through my shift. I just can't believe that they would

actually do this!!! Has anyone ever been through this? Does anyone

or has anyone worked at Target (I think someone said that they had

worked at Target...)? CAN THEY SERIOUSLY DO THIS????? AND IF THEY

DO, DO I HAVE ANY RECOURSE?????

Hugs

PS: My kingdom for a week without drama!!