Job with phone work requirement

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Would you apply for a job that mention phone use? Such as answer multi-phone line? I have been told I can ask employers to give that work to someone else, but how flexible are employers willing to accommodate that for you by assigning someone else to do phone work? Remember the deaf woman hired to work for the White House as a receptionist? It is quiet odd since an interpreter was needed for this and two salaries.

I skip jobs that mentions heavy phone work. Not because I don't want to. I just think it would be a waste of my time to apply for a job that clearly state it is heavy phone use. I mean, I could apply but I would not want to waste my time or the interviewer's time if I couldn't do phone work.

Am I missing out if I skip those jobs? I'd like to hear your opinion.
 
Anyone been through this? I was reading the ADA somewhere and if it's not an essential part of your job, for example, say other people can answer it, then they cannot decline offering you the job because of that one job and the main job is filing. Is discussion not appropriate for this forum?
 
Anyone been through this? I was reading the ADA somewhere and if it's not an essential part of your job, for example, say other people can answer it, then they cannot decline offering you the job because of that one job and the main job is filing. Is discussion not appropriate for this forum?
Of course it's appropriate discussion, but I don't know how we can really help. How much can you hear on a phone?. I can't use a phone , and it would probably be unfair of me to try for a job that I really couldn't do.

If it's just filing, go apply and find out if the would rearrange job duties so you didn't have to answer phones
 
I apply for jobs that need phone use, and show up with my earing aids. For some reason I never have enough job experience....:dunno2:
 
That's interesting. I have applied for cleaning jobs as one example and not seem to get hired because I have no experience. How does one get to work housekeeping if you have no experience but you know you can learn their way of cleaning? Even when you confidently say so, they just look at you funny. I mean, why does every job such as dishwasher need experience? Seriously?

I mean to ask about the phone because I was told by someone to apply even if phone work is required because maybe they will like me. I am skeptical that liking you is really going to qualify you lol. I just imagine getting rejected over something I know is required and they cannot accommodate. I mean, I guess you could apply and just see if you get lucky somehow, but it just seems like something I don't want to go through.

I applied for a job that phone was did not seem an essential part of the job. The interviewer of course was not expecting a deaf person, but he was immediately interested in adaptive phones. I don't use amplifiers and said that for a phone like relay, the other person will have to call a phone for me to get the captions. I didn't get hired as they seemed to want someone to handle the phone.
 
"You need a job to get experience.....but you need experience to get a job"

Have heard the above for years and it's so true that it drives me nuts.
Right now I'm basically a "Newbie" again...(for several reasons).
 
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