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Are some too fussy and too picky?
It's just a minority, but some physically disabled are being 'unrealistic' about job options: Bizlink
By Shree Ann Mathavan
August 10, 2010
Too hard and too stressful. These are common reasons they give when they turn down jobs.
Month after month, about 30 per cent of the physically disabled turn down job offers at Bizlink Centre, a charity which helps disabled people find employment.
This picky minority with unrealistic expectations remain on the waiting list of about 180 disabled folk – sometimes for years, said the charity's chief executive.
Bizlink Centre in Chai Chee has placed an annual average of 250 people with disabilities – both physical and mental – in open employment positions in the last 10 years.
There are those who make unreasonable demands.
Mr Lim said: "Some of them say that since we can't get them a job yet, why don't we hand out money to help them start their own business?
"These are some of the unrealistic expectations and attitudes that we deal with."
But Mr Lim stressed: "These are the minority. Besides, such attitudes are not just among the disabled group."
Are some too fussy and too picky?
It's just a minority, but some physically disabled are being 'unrealistic' about job options: Bizlink
By Shree Ann Mathavan
August 10, 2010
Too hard and too stressful. These are common reasons they give when they turn down jobs.
Month after month, about 30 per cent of the physically disabled turn down job offers at Bizlink Centre, a charity which helps disabled people find employment.
This picky minority with unrealistic expectations remain on the waiting list of about 180 disabled folk – sometimes for years, said the charity's chief executive.
Bizlink Centre in Chai Chee has placed an annual average of 250 people with disabilities – both physical and mental – in open employment positions in the last 10 years.
There are those who make unreasonable demands.
Mr Lim said: "Some of them say that since we can't get them a job yet, why don't we hand out money to help them start their own business?
"These are some of the unrealistic expectations and attitudes that we deal with."
But Mr Lim stressed: "These are the minority. Besides, such attitudes are not just among the disabled group."
