Is this fair?

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I work at a fast food resturant. I've worked there for a few months now. And I understand how to do pretty much everything. Nobody there knows I have AS. That's not what this is really about. I have Epilepsy though, and whenever I get overheated, I will have a seizure. Because of this, I asked not to be put at the fry station or the grill.

Last work day, my manager, although knowing I can't work there, put me at fries. I begged her not to put me there, and she put me there anyway. She said I would only be there for a little while. I did what she told me and worked on fries. For about 20 minutes. And if I would step away to cool off, she would yell at me, even thought I wasn't supposed to be at fries anyway. But I worked at fries for a little longer until I couldn't take it any longer and I begged her to move me. She made me stock things. (I'm not complaining. You don't get hot in a basement.) Then all of a sudden, she wanted to make me do this and that sweep, mop. After I had already done it 20 minutes earlier. She was watching me mop, and she yelled at me for the way I was mopping the floor. Ok. I'll Learn. But she was giving me the crud jobs all of a sudden.

I think she is mad at me because I am unable to work fries even though it is becuase of a medical condition, not because I don't want to. Even today, she was gave me crap jobs. I didn't complain, but she just hasn't acted the same since I told her I won't work fries anymore. And sent me home after I had only been at work for an hour and a half.
She used to be really nice, and I liked her a lot.

I really need to have a job so I can get school credit, but I am tired of this. I don't know if I should look for a new job or not...what do you think?

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This IS typical! Not FAIR, but TYPICAL! I don't know WHY she had you STAY at the fry station. MOST have a NASTY beeper and EVEN MCDONALD'S will have it beep CONTINUOSLY with NO sense of urgency. SURELY, you could step away for a few minutes with NO problem on THEIR side.

When you failed to do that, she gave you other jobs she felt you could handle. Maybe they were understaffed, and/or she had a BAD day. Try to talk to her about it(like she doesn't know), and consider other options.

sometimes managers want to find out what you will and will not do. somtimes they want to push you until you quit on your own. You will know if you start getting less and less hours or not on the schedule, at all.

Merle

That does sound unfair. Is there a doctor's note you can bring in? I'm sure lot of people come up with excuses to avoid certain tasks at work so they make up conditions they have so only a doctor's note would be proof yours is for real and you aren't making up an excuse.

I agree. Get a doctor's note. They should not discriminate against your disability and they are.

Meh. They still had a responsibility not to serve the stuff at temperatures that would scald you if an employee got clumsy and accidentally spilled it on you. That was a lawsuit just waiting to happen anyway; we're just lucky it didn't get spilled on a kid or something. If there's anything you learn when you study industrial design, it's that you have to put safety margins into everything, and that eventually, everything that can go wrong will go wrong--so you have to plan for it. You design assembly lines with the expectation that somebody will eventually get their shirt caught in a conveyor, even though any reasonable person wouldn't wear a shirt loose enough to be caught; it's just negligent not to design coffee machines (or mandate their settings) with the expectation that somebody will eventually have it spilled on them.

I agree. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and you're doing the boss a favor to insist on safety. There's just no business sense in having somebody work the fryer with the full knowledge that they have epilepsy and might end up dropping a pan of fries in and splashing themselves. You may have to accept some less desirable jobs in exchange for not having to work the fryer (which is, I take it, very undesirable too)...