ClassicRockr
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Do you have this or know anyone who does? Ever worked with someone who had it?
My, one and only time, working with someone who had it was very difficult for me.
It was a new Materials Department and I was hired in as the Materials Coordinator. The Director/Supervisor of this new Department was looking for a warehouseman. So, he had given me some applications to review for the position. One of the applications, of which he ended up hiring, spelled the word "Army" wrong, along with a couple of other misspelled words. The word Army was spelled "Amry".
Part of the warehouse person's job was to receive in and put away stock. The person had to count, write down quantities and locations of the product they put away. The packing list and Receiver (that had the quantities and locations on it) would then come to me to put into Inventory in the computer. So I entered into the computer exactly what was written on the Receiver. Well, when an order would come into me, I would go into inventory on the computer and fill the order from the amounts and locations he had put on the Receiver and I had entered into the computer. Unfortunately, he, the warehouseman had put away a number of things into marked locations in the warehouse, but had put had wrote down a different location, and sometimes quantities on the Receiver he had given me.
I knew something was wrong with the guy when I seen the misspelled words on his application, but the Director/Supervisor still hired him. Actually, my wife knew what he had and told me "this person should never be working with numbers". I told the Director/Supervisor what my wife had told me and I darned near got fired. IOW, the Director/Supervisor just didn't want to hear the problem.
The guy REALLY made my job difficult, because of the transposing of numbers (quantities) and letters (locations). After about a year, the man was terminated due to a bad "random" drug test. Apparently, while on vacation in New York, visiting his brother, he done some lines of cocaine the day before returning home and to work. He failed the drug test.
Just where can someone work that has Dyslexia? What kind of life do they live? One thing for sure, unlike other problems, Dyslexia isn't talked about much if any.
My, one and only time, working with someone who had it was very difficult for me.
It was a new Materials Department and I was hired in as the Materials Coordinator. The Director/Supervisor of this new Department was looking for a warehouseman. So, he had given me some applications to review for the position. One of the applications, of which he ended up hiring, spelled the word "Army" wrong, along with a couple of other misspelled words. The word Army was spelled "Amry".
Part of the warehouse person's job was to receive in and put away stock. The person had to count, write down quantities and locations of the product they put away. The packing list and Receiver (that had the quantities and locations on it) would then come to me to put into Inventory in the computer. So I entered into the computer exactly what was written on the Receiver. Well, when an order would come into me, I would go into inventory on the computer and fill the order from the amounts and locations he had put on the Receiver and I had entered into the computer. Unfortunately, he, the warehouseman had put away a number of things into marked locations in the warehouse, but had put had wrote down a different location, and sometimes quantities on the Receiver he had given me.
I knew something was wrong with the guy when I seen the misspelled words on his application, but the Director/Supervisor still hired him. Actually, my wife knew what he had and told me "this person should never be working with numbers". I told the Director/Supervisor what my wife had told me and I darned near got fired. IOW, the Director/Supervisor just didn't want to hear the problem.
The guy REALLY made my job difficult, because of the transposing of numbers (quantities) and letters (locations). After about a year, the man was terminated due to a bad "random" drug test. Apparently, while on vacation in New York, visiting his brother, he done some lines of cocaine the day before returning home and to work. He failed the drug test.
Just where can someone work that has Dyslexia? What kind of life do they live? One thing for sure, unlike other problems, Dyslexia isn't talked about much if any.
