Pointed out the training wasn't ADA compliant at my new job. Got this text the same day (the job listing is still up)

[u/eldritchpussymaggots]

1. This was a cleaning position at a medical building, I'm leaving it intentionally vague as not to doxx myself.

2. I have dyslexia, but my disability would not have interfered with my work, I can read fine, it just takes me a very long time.

3. This was my first day

I asked for a TTS application for the reading portion of the training, which was extremely long and I knew I wasn't going to finish it in the allotted time. They said that wasn't built into their system so they couldn't do anything. ← That's not ADA compliant. I asked if I could add an OCR + TTS browser extension, they said it was fine.

About 40 minutes after I clock out, they texted me I was fired because they're apparently reducing headcount.. by firing one person... and leaving their "urgently hiring" Indeed listing up. Right.

Edit:

I'm not confident in my ability to sue because I don't have my accommodation request in writing. This was a verbal exchange, I was more so asking where the TTS option was because most job training has it somewhere.

When I was told they did not have TTS, I mentioned that's not ADA compliant. I then asked for either more time, a loaner computer (something I was already going to be getting after training), or permission to add a 3rd party OCR & TTS program.

They said that the third option was fine, so I did it, and listened to the training via third party app for the rest of the shift. I thought nothing of it. Lo and behold I was fired extremely coincidentally afterwards.

Edit 2:

This post is getting too many notifications of people saying the same things repeatedly so I've muted it 😭 If you're a legal professional of some sort and you have specific resources or concerns please message me or I probably won't see it.

[u/Early-Light-864]

How sure are you that it was non-compliant?

People are wrong more than they're right on these things

[u/MaximumSeats → u/Early-Light-864]

As someone who handles these, yeah people are completely delusional sometimes. But then again so are employers.

I give it 50/50 chance OP is actually portraying the situation honestly, or any of this is even real.

[u/eldritchpussymaggots → u/[deleted]]

Being disabled is a nuisance?

[u/snarky_answer → u/eldritchpussymaggots]

Sometimes yes. My coworker has a pretty bad hearing problem. He doesn't wear hearing aids and asks everyone to repeat things constantly. He is an annoying nuisance with his disability and i frequently just ignore him asking "what?" and go about my day. Best part is that i wear my hearing aids so he has no recourse against me being a prick and ignoring him.

[u/spyVSspy420-69 → u/eldritchpussymaggots]

I’ll be honest, just scrolling your post history makes me think you were being significantly more frustrating for this employer than you’re admitting. And you seem way more high maintenance than you probably realize.

[u/eldritchpussymaggots → u/spyVSspy420-69]

My post history is mostly a bunch of trans shitposts. This is rather telling.

[u/spyVSspy420-69 → u/eldritchpussymaggots]

The pattern is there. You likely won’t ever admit it, but if I had to peg someone as the type who’d complain to their employer about ADA compliance on their first day you’re what I’d imagine.

Clearly your employer saw it as well and decided you weren’t worth the headache and finding a different person, whole hiring process and all, was a better move. That should tell you something about how you come off.

What’s perhaps most mildly infuriating about posts like yours is the complete lack of any willingness to even say “yeah I could have handled it better.” It’s always a “me good, them bad!” narrative which is just exhausting.

[u/eldritchpussymaggots → u/spyVSspy420-69]

The pattern is that I'm mentally disabled, and very visibly queer. You don't seem to understand why anti-discrimination laws exist. When I was at a job where they were chill with both if these things I did my job without issues for years until I moved away. I'm capable of working, improving, taking criticism, whatever. But I do not tolerate being treated like a nuisance because I want the same shit everyone else has easy access to.

[u/TheDeviceHBModified → u/eldritchpussymaggots]

LOL, "very visibly queer". I wish I'd seen even a single person using that phrase where it didn't translate to "insufferably fucking obnoxious".

[u/churnthedumb → u/eldritchpussymaggots]

Why is your sexuality so visible? That’s usually a private thing. Genuinely curious, I haven’t looked at your post history so idk

[u/blue60007 → u/eldritchpussymaggots]

I don't know the full story here, but was the employer aware of your need for an accommodation before halfway through your first day?

It reads to me like they weren't and isn't surprising they can't instantaneously accommodate it. It's not practical for an employer to be prepared for every possible situation, this is why they usually ask this stuff before you join. 

I'm not an employer but do organizing of various events and this is why we always ask about accommodations ahead of time. These are very short term events, if you don't tell us you may be out of luck because certain things make take time to provide, reconfigure, etc. 

[u/eldritchpussymaggots → u/[deleted]]

I have dyslexia. That's an extremely easy disability to accommodate, to the point I've literally never had to ask for an accommodation at work before this. It just sounds like you enjoy verbally berating disabled people because they are not-able (ie disabled) to do something you can.

[u/eldritchpussymaggots → u/[deleted]]

Like being able to read the provided material.

[u/MagnusRusson → u/[deleted]]

Proving yourself to be a nuisance

*asking for a legally required accomodations

[u/Early-Light-864 → u/MagnusRusson]

No. Not asking for accommodations. Hinting that they were going to sue the company for not proactively accommodating a request op had not made.

I would absolutely want them as far away from my company as possible

Op deleted the original. They went in guns blazing on nothing

[u/HappyPhage → u/[deleted]]

I'm truly shocked you could say to someone who just lost their job that they deserved it.

[u/HappyPhage → u/[deleted]]

Because in our world, losing a job can have dire consequences. Losing a job is a traumatic experience. You should feel bad for your lack of consideration. Note that I didn't report your last comment and it got moderated, so I'm not the only one thinking this.

[u/versaceblues → u/Early-Light-864]

Even if it was compliant. OP told their employer they had a disability and was fired immediately after.

Compliance aside, this is pretty clearly retaliation. Especially if the job posting for that role is still up.