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David Chan <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:01:14 -0800
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good for you...

--David

At 01:04 PM 10/29/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>I read the comment a few messages ago about the state or services or
>whatever the heck they changed their name to now, buying adaptive things
>for people, well, I will never ask them to help me again or buy me
>anything again not because of the comment in the other message but simply
>because our services thing around here seems to have a quota system, by
>that I mean, when my brother and a bunch of us that know each other and
>some obviously we didnt until there, but anyhow a: they are suckups to the
>nfb which i see nothing wrong with the nfb or acb, however it was obvious
>in everything they did, said, taught..etc, that wasn't really a big deal
>to me though, but kind of bothered me a little.
>anyway i to put a long story short, I was unfairly let go as were some
>others if we didnt exactly agree 100% it seemed like, or for example, in
>my case, I had been sick off and on battling with advanc4ed acit reflux,
>so some days i just couldnt make it to their supposedly independent
>training, but sometimes if i needed to go home a little early they would
>let others, but not me.  Anyway the days I was sick, the head jerk of the
>place, or assistant, kept calling  every 2 minutes to see if i was really
>sick, then he has the nerve to tell me that he didnt think i was sick and
>to come in, well i didn't because i won't go into all the details but i
>was at the toilet sick to put it nicely.  anyway the next time, and this
>is what finally did it, i had a decission either run back to the
>apartments and grab something i forgot, or make it to the bus without my
>stuff(some bs writing assignment or something), i chose to make the bus,
>well i got the boot for that on the coldest day of the year, had to wait
>for a bus for about 2 hours, i got back to the apartments and some other
>student was there with something about like mine, they let him stay
>home..can we say favorites or what!
>anyway my brother was more of a hellraiser than i was and he got to stay
>too, not to mention in the shop where they say it builds confidence, i
>think that is a lie in itself but, i was working on measurment stuff and
>was going to make a cd case, well dickhead that the assistant head and
>shop guy was, hands me some plastic to figure out how it will go in my new
>case.  It wasn't even the ones for a frickin' cd case, it was my friend's
>tape ones she was going to make, can we say set a person up for screwing
>up too?anyway I tried back in college to get windoweyes cuz thats what i
>like and have always used, well the guy asked me what windoweyes was..and
>"I think you will have to use jaws because thats all they have", no, its
>because what all those morons know at that stupid place in lincoln
>nebraska called hell, i mean "the center", heck people had diabetic
>problems, they gave them almost the royal treatment..but i'lkl get down
>off my soapbox now but thats why i will never ever have anything to do
>with them again

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