ADA Title 3 and 5 magic words

I’m not sure I understand the whole thread.

The quoted ADA seems t suggest it applies to employees who need “reasonable accommodation”. I can see why it might be reasonable to accommodate a customer - or is the health insurance provider considered part of the workplace if the insurance is a a workplace benefit?

But a stranger phoning out of the blue - how does that even pretend to be someone to which reasonable accommodation is due? By that logic, every place of business would need a sign language person, an amplified phone setup, and rubber bumpers on all sharp corners.

I don’t think sense has anything to do with it. It was a random ranter on the phone.

Thanks, Blake, for finding the blog with the whole rant on it. I was pretty sure that we’d have been cribbed if there had been 5 required words, but you never know. That pretty much put the question to rest.

I get wrong numbers at work all the time, so there’s a possibility that I’d have gotten close to the 5 words by accident, just because I’d be asking questions to try to figure out where I could forward his call. It’s usually either Animal Control or the main PD line that they were trying to get.

Way to take one for the team!! :slight_smile:

Thanks for some diligent and probably unpleasant digging.

Sounds like the same information. I didn’t get a name or anything so can’t be sure.

BUT if you keep a flag with a gold fringe on it in your office then you are under Admiralty Law and the ADA does not apply to you.

That doesn’t even make sense.

That essay makes me think that this person’s disability has something to do with mental illness.

Reasonable Accomodation

Ah, but if you do that, you’re a Fourteenth Amendment Citizen and I am the Living Soil, so I can use a motor vehicle on the roads without a license, because I am not driving, I am traveling, as it is my inalienable right as a Citizen of The Several United States of America, and you cannot stop me, for my signature is not in ALL-CAPS, it is a sigil, and the nature of the sigil is Me, My Godly And Sovereign Self, as per The Constitution of 1789, and I am not the straw-man entity to which you refer, and if I yell over you loudly enough, the bailiffs will not taze me, handcuff me, and drag me out of this fictional courtroom of Commercial Law because I do not understand for I refuse to stand under the contractual tort law… aaaaah flops over, tazed

Anyway, the five magic words are “Are you completely fucking insane?” and then a duck with a cigar in its bill drops down and gives you a hundred dollars.

It’s an Australian blog. Maybe ADA there refers to the Australian Dingo Act.

And the five magic words are “The dingo ate your baby”!

I prefer “What is your major malfunction?”

Aussies are tough enough it’s more like “Your baby ate my dingo!”

The link we were given by Blake was at a .au URL, but this .com URL works also. The guy who writes that blog appears to be in Florida.

Are you in Florida? It seems likely to me that you got a call from Andrew Levitin.

Which, if you think about it, is equivalent in meaning to the crackpot’s preferred response.

That explains everything. Florida is the new California when it comes to whackos and nutcases.

“Two great tastes that taste great together…”

Pretty impressive. In just 20 hours we went from “I’m an anonymous guy working at an anonymous location for an anonymous company who got an perplexing & poorly understood call from an anonymous guy” to “This is him & where he lives and what he’s ranting on about.”

Bravo Sir

You’re not the boss of me!

Damn! That’s six words. Now I need to self-deport. Oh well, it was a good run…

Does “hocus-pocus” and “abra-cadabra” count as one word or two?