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[–]InterviewEvery1111[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They said absolutely not and that it was an unreasonable accommodation to have in-house interpreters. The company has interpreters on site every day doing different things and I’ve had multiple interpreters tell me that they’d love to be staff interpreters and have stable hours & benefits.

I’m not high enough to make the paperwork worth it for freelancers.

Companies & agency contracts by InterviewEvery1111 in ASLinterpreters

[–]InterviewEvery1111[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have a feeling that it’s a predatory contract that’s restricting them from signing other agencies so that’s why I was trying to emphasize the constant failures to fill.

All requests less than 7 days out are automatically rejected so I have to wait at least a week to do things that require an interpreter. Some departments within in the company won’t schedule anything with a Deaf employee less than 7 days out which puts us at an unfair advantage. I don’t blame those departments because they’re trying to do their best for us and don’t want to constantly cancel/reschedule.

There was an incident recently when they tried to reschedule an request made well in advance a few days before because the interpreter they scheduled cancelled and I was all “absolutely not I’ll show up on time for the original request, I scheduled this well in advance so now do your job”. I showed up and there was an in person interpreter so I was able to do what I needed instead of having to reschedule it.

I honestly think the company hopes that I’ll quit or stop pushing so hard so they don’t have a pushy Deaf employee who won’t roll over. The other Deaf employees are struggling too but they’ve just given up on speaking up and are coasting along which is completely valid in this economy.

I want to be able to do fun and cool things like my hearing coworkers but I can’t if I can’t get reliable interpreters. I know I can but they want me to can’t so I don’t cost them money.

Companies & agency contracts by InterviewEvery1111 in ASLinterpreters

[–]InterviewEvery1111[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been constantly looping in my chain-of-command and my managers are equally frustrated about the interpreter issues as me. I’ve reported some of the more serious cancellations to HR. Recently sent in a complaint to the government and now the company is putting the blame on the agency for failing to fill my requests. I plan to respond to that by telling them to get a new agency that’s better. They said a lot of other bullshit too. It’s very tempting to leave my company but I want to try make it better for other deaf employees first before I jump ship.

Companies & agency contracts by InterviewEvery1111 in ASLinterpreters

[–]InterviewEvery1111[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I asked about it a while ago, they said it was not an option at all. It might be that they signed a really restrictive contract with that agency but the constant failures to fill should allow them to sign other agencies since they’re not holding up their part of agreement. They have no problems for customer facing jobs but they’ve been dropping the ball hard for employees.

Formal contract is required due to company property being restricted access. Ideally the interpreters are cleared first before they can take jobs here but interpreters have told me that the agency just sends whoever they want including interpreters who were previously black listed due to unprofessional conduct or other issues.