A Question For Those Employed: How Hard is Your Job, Really? - Page 2

deafaussie · 03-18-2009, 02:08 PM

Im culturally Deaf since birth and is working for Kaiser Permanente as a Senior Desktop Analyst in Information Technology.

My position requires me to manage at least 300,000 desktops, laptops and biomedical equipments in Active Directory and other tools, managing user accounts, remote access via VPN/SSL, Administers with Blackberry Enterprise servers, data recovery from encrypted hard disk drives and facilitating 'hands up' meeting in weekly basis.

Also, we do UAT on hardware and software that was engineered and/or packaged readying for production use.

Luckily for me, Kaiser Permanente had done their best in accommodating my disability by providing me access to the Internet via PIX firewall, meaning I make 2 to 4 hours of video calls per day to Hands On VRS.

The downside of this job:
1/ Hard to follow what my colleagues had been talking in time of high or critical incidents. They tend to be over active and talks too fast.
2/ Team meetings I use the VRS to sign into a meeting bridge remotely, sometimes they often talk all at once, forgetting all about me and my 'rules' Hence I had to enforce them from time to time.
3/ Nurses, doctors, assistants and office employees at Kaiser Permanente didnt want to believe that I am Deaf and using the VRS. They often tend to work their way past me and move to another colleagues. I find this quite offending but had to deal with it and is nature of my job.

society's_child · 03-23-2009, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Byrdie714

My job is this:

Same here.

Byrdie714 · 03-24-2009, 05:56 PM

All I can say is that I am enjoying my new job. Very hard and demanding, unfortunately it comes with clients that can be "problematic".

Oh well--their problem, not mine.

Perks are great too!

Fumasivil · 03-25-2009, 12:01 PM

It's quite fascinating to see how hard their jobs are. My job is hard enough already being website manager looking after photography and product lines for a retailing company. I manage a team of 4 and they all do their jobs well. It's the other people who work their way past me to discuss their issue with my team and my team redirect them back to me. Which is great, I have to tell them that my disability is not an issue where the problem is concerned as most of it can be done by the computer with relevant skills lol.

I love my job but not my previous job where I was a E-HR computer tester and my boss being Portuguese spoke to me in a such manner that I did not pick up until I received new HA's that I could hear the difference and it was really demeaning so I changed my jobs when she refused to change the way she spoke to me despite my colleagues telling me that she was treating me in a such way. I reported her to my other boss, she was sent to a disability course and was made redundant. My other boss was sad to lose me cos I was an 'asset' to the company....

03-25-2009, 12:01 PM	#34 (permalink)
Fumasivil Language is beautiful Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: London, UK Posts: 56	It's quite fascinating to see how hard their jobs are. My job is hard enough already being website manager looking after photography and product lines for a retailing company. I manage a team of 4 and they all do their jobs well. It's the other people who work their way past me to discuss their issue with my team and my team redirect them back to me. Which is great, I have to tell them that my disability is not an issue where the problem is concerned as most of it can be done by the computer with relevant skills lol. I love my job but not my previous job where I was a E-HR computer tester and my boss being Portuguese spoke to me in a such manner that I did not pick up until I received new HA's that I could hear the difference and it was really demeaning so I changed my jobs when she refused to change the way she spoke to me despite my colleagues telling me that she was treating me in a such way. I reported her to my other boss, she was sent to a disability course and was made redundant. My other boss was sad to lose me cos I was an 'asset' to the company.... __________________ Adobe photoshop is the gateway to paradise Left ear Implanted - Harmony (AB) 21 May 2009 Activated - 18th June 2009 http://www.fumasivil.blogspot.com

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03-18-2009, 02:08 PM	#31 (permalink)
deafaussie Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 256	Im culturally Deaf since birth and is working for Kaiser Permanente as a Senior Desktop Analyst in Information Technology. My position requires me to manage at least 300,000 desktops, laptops and biomedical equipments in Active Directory and other tools, managing user accounts, remote access via VPN/SSL, Administers with Blackberry Enterprise servers, data recovery from encrypted hard disk drives and facilitating 'hands up' meeting in weekly basis. Also, we do UAT on hardware and software that was engineered and/or packaged readying for production use. Luckily for me, Kaiser Permanente had done their best in accommodating my disability by providing me access to the Internet via PIX firewall, meaning I make 2 to 4 hours of video calls per day to Hands On VRS. The downside of this job: 1/ Hard to follow what my colleagues had been talking in time of high or critical incidents. They tend to be over active and talks too fast. 2/ Team meetings I use the VRS to sign into a meeting bridge remotely, sometimes they often talk all at once, forgetting all about me and my 'rules' Hence I had to enforce them from time to time. 3/ Nurses, doctors, assistants and office employees at Kaiser Permanente didnt want to believe that I am Deaf and using the VRS. They often tend to work their way past me and move to another colleagues. I find this quite offending but had to deal with it and is nature of my job.

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03-24-2009, 05:56 PM	#33 (permalink)
Byrdie714 Banned Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 8,946	All I can say is that I am enjoying my new job. Very hard and demanding, unfortunately it comes with clients that can be "problematic". Oh well--their problem, not mine. Perks are great too!