Public service is an interesting place to work.
Once wen to job interview where the chairman of job panel (there are always three people interviewing hopefuls) told me they had already decided to whom they would give the job and were only conducting interviews because they had to… But that they would keep my name incase something else came up down the track. Did I complain? Of course not. The quickest way to destroy a career was to make an official complaint.
In 33 years, I worked with three handicapped people. Two were paraplegic and one was profoundly deaf. A lovely young woman in her early twenties. Our manager was very smug because she was given a special set up so she could use the phone.
I learnt some very basic signing. ( I did know the alphabet, but am far too slow) Fortunately, she read lips very well)
I’d like to think that things are far better today because of the IT revolution, but somehow I doubt it. A change technology doesn’t mean any innate changes in human beings.