If you have anxiety type disabilities like GAD, OCD, panic disorder, aspbergers, social anxiety...
You may have let your boss know...and you worked from home for years...but tough luck...
You have to come in the office cause WF DOESN'T CARE...
So much for being for diversity and disabilities...
Those people that educated their bosses should have automatically been given waivers...
But nope...WF doesn't care...
If you don't live with social anxiety issues..you won't care and will say suck it up...way to go.....caring company baloney..
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One now former employee is a quadriplegic who wfh because lobby and bathroom doors do not open automatically. When employee requested to be 100% remote it was denied. How do you collaborate when you cannot enter your floor?
I'm sure there's more details I'm unaware of, but I vouch for the unwillingness of Wells to accommodate the buildings and branches to ADA standards.
One former employee is a quadriplegic that wfh because lobby and bathroom doors do not open automatically. When employee request to be 100% remote it was denied. How do you collaborate when you cannot enter your floor?
I'm sure there's more details I'm unaware of, but I vouch for the unwillingness of Wells to accommodate the buildings and branches to ADA standards.
If you need assistance filling out the form for medical accommodation, HR will help you. Suggestion, meet with your Dr and get your needs documented on letterhead to submit with your medical accommodation request form. They will assign someone in HR to your case and it may take a few weeks. They will check with the doctors office to ensure and double check it came from them and then they'll discuss with senior LOB leadership before making a decision. LOB has final say, not HR. My request was approved but it was HEAVILY documented with physical limitations sit/stand, push/pull, walk x amount of time, needs help doing xyz, fall risk, must be close to bathroom, frequent breaks, etc. So if anyone needs medical accommodation, be ready with that level of documentation between your doctor. I made a special appointment with mine to get it handled. I've seen posts about folks with cancer and other immunocompromised issues, perhaps take this approach in addition to the immune system to help get you approved. Hope this helps anyone who needs it!!! Hang in there!!!
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If the building was built before the ADA law was passed, they don’t even have to do that. Most of the bathrooms in Charlotte are not ADA complaint for that reason.
Who here works at Amy Company?
and a medical accomodations could be one of many things, not just work from home. WF and Amy company will abide by the law. if you are a protected class they will at least do the bare minimum in most cases, and while you may not like the accommodation they come up with, you have to go through the process. hr isn't going to share anything with anyone that doesn't have a right to know
OP doesn't say if the submitted a medical accommodation request or not - if so, and it was denied then you could have a case, for unemployment if nothing else. Just a thought.
Stop feeling persecuted...management here hates everybody.
@1tyj, possibly you should act on this in a way that would help you. Socializing this information on this website won't get you anywhere. You need to go to the media; you need to hire an attorney; you need to do something to expose WF for what it is - if this is all true.
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Me too. I am pretty good at masking and mimicking, but it shows sometimes and I worry when it does. I'm not good at eye contact, I'm not good at deep conversations with people I am not close with. I often say the wrong thing, or jump around a conversation verbally. Sometimes I mimic too much and begin to emote the same way as others do. If it's a negative environment, I find I become more negative. I have a lot of interests outside of work that are niche things, and I can't talk about it with any coworkers. I am not interested in sporting events or public concerts or large crowds, so I avoid work gatherings and can't discuss "the big game" because I don't watch it. Office clothes make me itchy. I would rather be in shorts and a t-shirt but my boss won't allow it. But I am good at my job. I am a quick thinker, able to see multiple solutions at one time and I am very accurate in predicting which one is the best solution to apply. I am friendly. I do my best to smile or pretend to laugh when others do, even though I am not sure why I am laughing 100% of the time. When I am working from home I am able to give my pure self and do my job in an environment that is conducive to my mental style. When I am in the office I am constantly distracted and overloaded and then worn out when I go home.
I won't tell anyone at work about my condition. I won't classify it as an illness, because it is not. I like who I am. I like what my brain can do. But I know I would be judged for the way I am, and I don't want that to limit my success or career.
Oh goody, an expert. Feel free to enlighten the rest of the class on how the most effective treatment is to avoid the source of your fears.
letting your boss know and having an informal agreement means nothing. unless you have a formal agreement documented with hr there isn't much that can be done. also, as we know the company can always do away with many of these agreements as they did with prior wfh agreements. that being said, there is still an accomodations process that one can go through with WFH being an option, but they may decide other options are more suitable. it will be up to hr to decide based on what you and your doctor tell them. your manager will have no say in the matter but don't complain and say wfb isn't supportive of people with disabilities when you haven't even gone through the steps available to you. if you need accomodations you have to ask for them especially those that aren't required by various ADA laws such as wheelchair ramps and counter heights.
Wells is a good company but management has too much input on decisions. I just got sick and no one on my team will talk to me because of poor leadership. The manager encourages bad behavior. Let's just wait thus will cause another lawsuit.
OP- go public. Blast their A$$ on social media/media and see what happens. At minimum, someone is going to call you.
Oh, but they do care! They showed us by putting a little box on Team Works telling us "mental health matters." F that and and them, they clearly don't put their money where the mouth is and deserve to rot.
Ok, but of you are LGBTQHIF, man, woman, it, mouse, lamp, whatever, that doesn't mean you can't RTO and must WFH. If you think your mental state requires a remote exception, formally request it like everyone else.
Look a person that is anti LGBTQ...
are you saying i am not a woman ??
If a person tells me their pronouns...that is what they are...if a person says they have a disability...they do...it is anti diversity to not accept their statement....
But just because you are in a wheelchair, doesn't mean you can't RTO. How is anyone supposed to know that your disability prevents you from RTO? Oh yeah, you submit a formal request and provide the necessary documentation. You can't take people's word for it especially when it isn't obvious to a third party.
@1ugc+1fLG6e71 - You seem to know very little about mental illness.
But just because you are in a wheelchair, doesn't mean you can't RTO. How is anyone supposed to know that your disability prevents you from RTO? Oh yeah, you submit a formal request and provide the necessary documentation. You can't take people's word for it especially when it isn't obvious to a third party.
It's actually a valid point...
You don't require people with a wheelchair to prove they need a ramp...
You provide the ramp because it is what's right...
By not supporting disabled people Wells Fargo is actively being non ADA compliant...
Yeah, because avoiding the source of your anxiety always leads to good results and is what every psychologist would recommend. RTO is complete nonsense and no one should have to do it, but the idea that the best way to address social anxiety is to lock yourself in a house and never ever see other human beings in person is highly suspect, at best. You don't help people by sheltering them. That's destructive long term and not empathetic in any way.
The change stress that people with neuro divergent disabilities must be having right now must be through the roof...
From 2 years of Covid to losing your assigned seat to bulk seating and mandatory RTO..I never thought about it before..but ..yes I agree...these people must be having serious health issues right now due to how RTO was implemented..
Look Charlie does follow this website...
The person that has a work from home contract that wasn't dismissed..
But disabilities...nah...they should suck it up...oh..but make sure to use proper pronouns also just in case...
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Ha...you want an exception without requesting an exception. Good God you people are amazing
We have our first loser..
Another zero empathy for disabled people...
Good job...
Ha...you want an exception without requesting an exception. Good God you people are amazing
Submit a request and make them shoot it down. Then do the bare minimum and if they sue you hire yourself a good lawyer and sue the sh-t out of them. Trust me, they will settle for a pretty penny. Their reputation is already in the toilet. They can’t afford any more hits in the press.
I disclosed I am Aspergers with OCD years ago...
Worked from home years...
They are making me come back in office...
I am still having a hard enough time with COVID and now they want me in the office...even though I worked from home successfully for years...
My social anxiety is through the roof and WF doesn't care...
I know 2 others like me and we are all looking for jobs elsewhere cause WF hates people with disabilities...
They parrot the words but don't back it up..
I’ve got autism but I haven’t said a word to anyone at work about it.
Too afraid of losing my job.
Why should someone have to submit a waiver with a disclosed disability???
No...HR and management should have done their homework and automatically provided waivers ...
I agree WF is not disability friendly...
I have a friend that is aspergers and has been losing sleep over this because of the past 2 years has been difficult for them...
I agree WF is not being disability friendly
Did you submit an accommodation request and get denied?
I was thinking about this topic today actually. Not only are they expecting you back, but now it's unassigned, but yet still a wall of grey cubes too. It must be especially tough for anyone with mental health or neuro-divergent conditions.