everyone that goes through voc rehab ends up a janitor here

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I just found out that everyone that goes through voc rehab ends up in a job as a janitor. The company that does the placements has a contract with the federal government to do janitorial work and so every single person gets shoe horned into that regardless of education or experience. I have two college degrees, have helped manage a company, and am thinking of going back to school to be a nurse. Regardless the only call I've received is do I have any interest in interviewing for this janitorial position they have. Words can't describe how angry I am.

Welcome to the wonderful world of disability rehab.

They're not trying to help people get over a difficulty.

They're trying to exploit people who are already so broken that they'll be grateful for the crumbs off the table.

You could tell me who hooked you up with the janitor job. I'm one of those people who are broken enough to be grateful for the crumbs.

My experience was even worse. The company with the contract is set up to employ very mentally ret*d individuals, people who will never live on their own, with very low IQs, etc. They evaluated me and said I was too high functioning to be hired by them, then they pushed me out the door with a login for a job board. I would have been happy to work as a janitor, or even one of the very low skill jobs they were offering, but no, I wasn't dumb enough.

It's not so much someone is 'dumb' enough, it has a lot to do with if they can take the grinding 'sameness' day after day after day after week after week after month after month after year after year. . .

I've gone through Voc Rehab twice. Both times they "outsourced" me to career agencies where I had my own personal job coach person-a-ma-jig. The first time the young lady got me a Web Design job with a small company that her friend/boyfriend worked at. I was there for the 3 months they require to close the case and then let go because I didn't have the knowledge of the job that they required and they didn't have the time to train me like they said they would. After that the lady pretty much told me I was SOL. Oh well, they ended up buying me a $600 laptop and $600+ Adobe bundle.

The second time was this past year where after about five months or so I finally let the guy talk me in to applying for FedEx Express (air cargo). I got hired on right before the Christmas rush and it was obscenely awful. I was put into Input which is most likely the physically demanding job there. I absolutely hated it for a good month or two, but eventually got used to it and still work there. Once I jot the job however, the job coach pretty much ghosted me. It was insane how much pushing and time it took him to just get my work boot reimbursement from voc rehab. He didn't even have the decency to give me a proper farewell.

Sadly we're all just $$$ to them in one way or another so the quicker they can turn us over the sooner they can move on to another person to "flip".

Let me put a different angle on that.

I worked as a case manager for people on welfare. Our "success" was measured in outcomes (completion of any job skill training and confirmed employment during the first 3-month and third 3-month period after completing skill training). It mattered not if they had continuous employment. Just "graduate" and have confirmed proof of at least two days of work in the appropriate periods that we must report on.

No matter who wanted into the program, one of our top concerns was that we could count on the graduates to get us our "three points" in the end.

If we had jobs we could funnel people into that would make us look good, we would have had every reason to use it.

If your "job" doesn't result in the desired results the creators of the program envisioned, it gets cancelled...no matter how much "good" you're actually doing.

I had no clue that vocational rehabilitation was this bad. Sorry that anyone has to experience this. My eyes have been opened. It makes me realize that one is on their own.

I was actually referred to voc rehab by a learning disability org as a place to get dx'd for ASDs and for training. Needless to say, I'm just going to retrain on my own for something that uses my strengths and allows me to work at home, possibly contract for a company.

Not really voc rehab but I work for a company that is for people with disabilities and we are all janitors. But the only thing about that is a joke is they make it so hard when you apply there because they ask for references and they need to document your disability and the problem is, if you don't have any from the recent years, you're screwed. Same as if you don't have your medical records or your IEP records because your parents were stupid to not keep them. I had to go to my doctor to have them print off a paper about me with my list of current conditions and Asperger's was on there and they also had on infantile autism which made no sense. So once I handed them the paper, bam I was all of a sudden set to go to class for the job. My latest medical records were from 6th grade and it was too old for them so I had to go to my doctor to print of the paper about me with my current conditions I have because it was recent. This was back in 2009 after I was waiting for three months for them to approve me because they were waiting to get information from Social Security and they were taking too darn long to send them some records about me that documented my disability. This company also offers housing to them and they also offer job coaches.

But I like my job. Everyone at work seems normal but there is this one man at work and you can tell he has a disability because he has cerebral palsy. He is non verbal so he writes to communicate and points to things.

My experience with voc rehab is not such a disaster. the first time I used them I got a job almost immediatly at kelly services shagging cars for auto warehousing company AWC for short. it was a minimum wage job and it was about 35 mile drive one way. This job was practically a breeze you drove new cars and pulled the wrapgaurd (AKA plastic protector crap) off them. I usually was the one to pop the 2gallons per a car of gas that they got while in line getting the stuff like mat's and paperwork stuff like that. it all was easy until winter where the river they pulled the cars off the ships was right there so I was cutting glass cold out there. I stayed there for 2 years then I moved on to a shorter cheaper drive away and got payed more working at a bucket plant that was in my home town that I had applyed for and kept applying for and got it finally.

now I am back at voc rehab and there are practically no jobs but my worker is looking for everything and anything that I could do and I feel that they will find somthing that is the right fit before I run out of my 401k funds I pulled out after the unemployment ran out.