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I work in a government agency in human resources. We have like 15 other deaf people out of 8,000 in this building so there is a full time staff interpreter. If she's not available then we'll get a contract interpreter for our meetings or whatever. There's only 2 deaf (including me) in my division but we don't work in the same branch so I don't get to interact with her that much. My co-workers are really nice, they know to tap on my shoulder if they need my attention or to speak slowly. I can lip read well and speak well too in one on one situations but in a group environment, forget it, I need an interpreter. I have a TTY and VP at my work but I never use my TTY lol. I work a lot with customers like managers, employees, and prospective applicants so there's alot of communication - usually done through IM or e-mail. If I need to make an offer to someone, I'll use my VP and I haven't come up with any issues. The only problem that I have is sometimes there's a last minute meeting called and there is no interpreter available so I end up stuck in a meeting not knowing what's going on. Sometimes I'll ask the person next to me to write notes for me.
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