I think an Emotional Support Clown would do TBP some good. I think Admin should find a troupe of them for the sad monkeys here.
This article is a few months old, but I’m sure you have noticed the increased presence of Therapy and Support animals in public places as well as specialized conveyances for those who are differently “abled.” I was researching the American with Disabilities Act (1990) that qualified 400% of the population to apply for disability pensions. I’m not headed down that particular rabbit hole, but thought this story was at least worth a cameo appearance.
Besides, Suzanne appears to be a “real” freelance writer as well as a real evil HR lady. I hope that is Human Resources and not the other HR, because I am not over that clown yet.
https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/man-brings-emotional-support-clown-to-termination-meeting.html
I’m on record as saying when an employee asks for something look for a way to say yes. If you come to me and say you want to bring an emotional support clown to a meeting–any meeting–I will look for a way to say no.
But Human Resources people in New Zealand are nicer than I am. Or perhaps, they were blindsided and were so freaked out they didn’t know how to respond. I don’t know.
Joshua Jack, a New Zealand ad man, received a notification to attend a meeting and said he could bring along an emotional support person. So he did — a clown.
The New Zealand Herald reports:
The Herald understands that the clown blew up balloons and folded them into a series of animals throughout the meeting.
It’s further understood that the clown mimed crying when the redundancy paperwork was handed over to the staffer.
No. No. And also, no. And I’m sure that the person who wrote the invitation assumed this emotional support person would be a spouse or a friend, not Pennywise.
Do you have to allow an emotional support clown (or animal)?The company invited Jack to bring an emotional support person, and this is New Zealand, where employment laws are different. But, in the US, would the law force you to accept an emotional support clown?
The short answer is no. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires you to make reasonable accommodations for someone with a disability, but it does not define emotional support animals (or clowns). Service animals perform a specific function, but emotional support animals do not.
Workplaces aren’t required to accept service animals if it wouldn’t be reasonable or another solution exists. But, it’s often the best reasonable solution to allow an employee their service animal.
But another human? You don’t (generally) even have the right to bring in your attorney for a workplace meeting. (This can vary based on state law and union contracts, but as a general rule, you can’t force your attorney into a meeting). I’m going to extrapolate from that information that, in the United States, you don’t have to let someone bring a clown into a disciplinary meeting.
A deaf employee may be entitled to a sign language translator, but otherwise, the requirements for additional humans are minimal.
And please don’t let this be a trend. Please no.
Published on: Sep 14, 2019
The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are their own, not those of Inc.com.
https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/7-myths-about-the-americans-with-disabilities-act.html
These Emotional Support Clowns are my heroes. They should work in teams. They are our warriors, our last plausible hope to spare our Western countries. Where two or three are clowning around the enemies of darkness have no power. These are Clown Warriors! If you’re jealous or feeling antagonistic, rest assured that it takes one to know one. They could steal your herd cred. Stop these clowns from winning!
Good thing I have M G here or I wouldn’t be able to cope. When you going to email me, girl?
I’ve tried. Check your trash or spam folder. Yo found his so he can also provide the pathway to my Hillbilly WiFi inbox!
Warning about the version below…
Don’t look at it without a nurse present.
I’m not going to look at it at all, I don’t like Enrique. Also, I have nothing in my spammy folder.
I will try again. Dam
I tried again.
OK, if you got the email from admin, then you got my email address but you aren’t getting through, sorry, Barbie.
Okay, this email thing is driving me cuckooforcocoapuffs! First I THOUGHT I email someone who replied that indeed I had and then that someone said they never got an email from me and I figured I was being Mandella Effected off the blogosphere (Help Me! I’m Melting!) like that looney tune I follow off and on (Allan Weisbecker) is trying to “document.”
I am on the other computer. I lost my laptop to some malicious bugs in the HR battle of 2019. I’m keeping it because it did an interesting thing. Because I purchased it while in Maryland and set it up at my friend’s home, which has secure access to stuff, therefore special settings. Her husband set it up and gave me the passcode thingie which I still have. If you have never had a US Government passcode thingie they look like thumb drive except there is a little window that generates a code when you put it into a USB slot. You type in the code, the government hub you are getting onto asks the computer to verify that passcode thingie is there and it lets you in. Of course, now everyone here knows I have a passcode thingie and I suppose I’ll have to burn that too.
So, I flew home with my new laptop and never signed it up here. I’ve been hopping onto HER machine via some really crazy paths for three years. My husband was watching my laptop do the handshake thing one day and asked me why I didn’t just put it on our network. I said because I liked the idea of being lost in time, space and location when I logged in through her system.
You know why, don’t you? Because it was WAY COOL and the kinds of people she interacts with are WAY COOL. From a damn distance. I really needed to meet someone like her in 1984. Perhaps she needed to meet me too.
*I would suggest we have both effects and affects ongoing here.
BAD Form AOC!
That is NOT an appropriate Therapy Clown Image!
Bad Clown!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
That is an evil scary clown and I want his image banned from my mind.
Pennywise is a lover, not a fighter.
I think Vote Harder needs support clown…..Pogo aka John Wayne Gacey!
What was the thing with the turtles all the way down thing?
Have you ever gone to a Social Security Office? There aren’t very many old people. It’s mostly young people and niggers – all trying to get SS Disability.
Blind man drives!
I had to go for the first time since the 60’s when I got my card. I handed the woman my BC from Texas and then she asked me if I’m a US citizen. I said, you have my certified birth certificate there. They could save time by combining the DMV and the Social Security office so we could get bad service in one convenient location.
Exactly, Dutch! The ADA “entitled” a shitload of people to the public’s largess.
If you can get a doctor to justify your particular problem as a qualifying disability, you can get on that gravy train too.
It’s all about the paperwork. I know some “legally” blind people who drive. Shouldn’t but they do.
Maggooey, I am legally blind without glasses. I think he was talking about people who can’t see at all.
Is time to pay respects to Munchkin.
In South Memphrica, just beside the SS office is a huge billboard with an attorney offering his services to help you get your SS Disability. You walk out after getting turned down, look up and dial srewthetaxpayers and voila, you got an advocate who can cut through the red tape, for a small fee, of course.
Bwahahabababa
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny as shit. Shit like this is everyone’s fault imo.
some people get themselves qualified for a “support animal” so they can take their pet on the plane without paying animal transport costs.
What about support clowns?
Do they have to sit on your lap or fit under the seat in front of you?
Can you take them on a plane?
Can you take them on a train?
Can you take them with you on a date?
Or when you explain to the boss why you’re late?
When you sail across the sea?
When you go to the DMV?
When you send the child support check to your ex?
When you’re having robot sex?
Please watch this and tell me what you think. It’s all fascinating but I cued it up to a particular section. Watch through the discussion of corn.
Now, if you were a pack of Revisionist Masters of the Universe and you were going to control people by invalidating their thoughts and memories where would you start but with the Holy Word.
When I was a tech editor I worked with programmers at Boeing… we were determining how we could build a “living database” which would know when items or training materials requiring back engineering of technical parts and materiels (e is intended not a misspell). So, in THEORY, and I stress theory, since there is no limitation to speed of data in the quantum realm, you could write an algorithm that could go back and correct the printing of earlier copies. (Because that is what is being claimed… that the actual words are changing.)
What animal is going to lay down with the lamb in Isaiah?
If you said Lion? You are wrong. Wolves,buddy… they’ve figured out how to recode history, if this is so. And if so, it will catapult. I think I finally got an email off to you.
I think it a good idea if everyone have an email contact for a few others. I’m not suggesting you open up to the whole 20,000 or so of us, but perhaps create a gmail account as I’ve done with my seemobootheel punny name and let a few others know. Just. In. Case.
I wandered onto the Mandela affect/effect because the Women’s Writing Man-Hating Romance Writer’s Club seriously plotted some of this feminization of men.
Back to the video… it is worth listening to if not watching.
I’m at the 45 minute point now and it cracked me up. Naughtiness? The KJV now says naughtiness where it once said wickedness. NO KIDDING. Go see.
The support animals clause has become a big problem as poorly trained and vicious ‘service’ dogs are mauling people and pets. There’s not a shits worth of oversight. https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/service-with-a-snarl/Content?oid=2172980
https://wsvn.com/news/local/pit-bull-mix-service-dog-shot-during-apparent-attack-on-owners-boyfriend/#.W2ePLU_v63w.facebook
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-s-ing-all-over-scenes-from-a-world-taken-over-by-fake-service-animals
http://thedogknowledge.com/web/2014/03/service-dog-fraud/
http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/pit-bull-service-dog-attacks-three-people-in-yakima/article_abea956c-f4a6-5d05-bcc1-efb3a8ba0cdc.html
https://cravendesires.blogspot.com/2012/04/vintage-stunt-pit-picks.html
We’re a nation of wussies and pussies. If your emotional problems are that severe you shouldn’t be on a plane for the safety and comfort of both the flight staff and other passengers.
Somehow we flew for 90 some odd years without growling dogs, farting pigs and crapping ducks. Make alternative plans if you must. It’s your problem, not mine.
Another of my pet peeves is handicap parking. 95% of users are frickin land whales who could really use some exercise. In fact their parking should be at the outer edge of the lot for their benefit.
As a society we coddle every freak and confirm the legitimacy of every perversion to the detriment of the handful in society who are still sane.
“Another of my pet peeves is handicap parking.”
I’ve almost never seen a handicapped person using a handicap space. often it’s just an old person who’s bouncing along quite healthy and active.
heh. I’ve seen handicapped plates on f250’s and high-end sports cars.
I think we need to be more inclusive in our view of emotional supports. In my case, my Glock gives me emotional support so I think it should be illegal to prevent me from wearing it anywhere……….. Especially political rallies.
“emotional support” is meant to be a weapon, not to include weapons.
I fully support your right to have your emotional support Glock as long as you support my need for an emotional support lumberjack.
Lumbersexual :
“A male hipster who affects a rugged outdoorsy look, typified by plaid shirts and a full beard”
My emotional support lumberjack will be barrel-chested with powerful arms and nobody better call him a name like hipster, either. And, similar to an emotional support clown, he can make yiu laugh. But, you won’t want to laugh at him. Because he will kick your ass.
That’s why emotional support lumberjacks are preferred by almost all women whose names start with the letter M.
I’m sending emotional support vibes to Stuckenheimer. And, at 530 local/630 DC time, I start playing at the others start praying.
It’s how we roll for this nine.
Day 2.
For Nick in New Jersey and Maureen, who deserve all the comfort and support I can offer.
If the emotional support clown accepts hard punches to the gut, you may be onto something here.
We should be able to carry around something to absorb those, I agree.
i’m late to this thread but here’s a serious article 4 you–
business owners get very scared by these situations b/c if they “discriminate” they can be in a world of hurt–
this is an article by a vet which summarizes a paper written by psychologists about esa’s–
what jumped out at me is that they are legally conceding that they have mental problems if they need an esa–
remember,an atty did not write this but it still might help you–
https://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2019/12/15/emotional-support-animal-certification.aspx