Color Blindness it's a dissability and it has lost me a jobs or two.

[Slash Joel]

Color Blind is the common name but the real name is color deficient and it is a disability. I am in the very few percent of the population that is completely color blind as I only see in black and white and have never seen color before in my life. For me this means that I have set outfits and will only wear a shirt with the pants that is a part of the outfit. Clothes are not my thing even more so now I live on my own. I have gone to a wedding in a horrible outfit that caused half my family to hate me. I shop for clothes rarely because it is a very unpleasant experience with having to rely heavily on employees who are not trained to deal with me and what I need them to do. My normal outfit is jeans with a white or black shirt.
Any way the most recent job that this has lost me was during the interview process for a position at a Best Buy. The problem was the clothes I was wearing and the manager who interviewed me wasted no time insulting how horrible I looked and that she couldn?t believe I would come to interview dressed like. I explained to her that I was color blind but she could care less saying ?That it is not her fault that I was up to dressing myself?. She then proceeded to ask me a few questions and insulted me again on my clothes and told me not to contact them that they would contact me.
Yes, this was a world class ***** I was dealing with but to deny someone a job, which I desperately needed at the time, because of a disability now that is just evil, right? I want your opinion on this, please.
But first my response to anyone who starts asking me to the stupid questions ?what?s this color?? or ?Can you see this color??
?You are asking a disabled person to do something that is impossible for him. Just like asking a crippled to walk or asking someone with a speech impediment to order Chinese food."

Edit: The clothes where set out before hand the outfit was just mixed up. I thought it looked nice. Also remember that I am very unconfident when it comes to clothes.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

It's discrimination for sure. You can't help the fact that you can't see in color. But surely you have some friends, no? If you need someone's help in designating outfits, then do so. Tag the clothes that go with what pants or what pants go with what shirts. There are ways around it, and sadly, that is part of having your disability. It really sucks that this has to happen to people, and I do wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.

Edit: Okay. Not discrimination. DERP.

 

[DKen2021]

You could've had like a friend to help you with your clothes. Not her fault. She wouldn't have known you had a disability from first impressions.

 

[Viral_Lola]

I had a classmate that had color blindness. Super nice guy. I don?t remember the extent of it but I did know it made things harder for him. I remember being his lab partner and we had to use food coloring for a project. I remember putting each color in a test tube and saying, ?Which one stands out the best?? There were times he would ask if two things were different colored or not.

I remember he labeled a lot of things. It was time consuming but it made life easier for him. As for his clothes, I remember he always wore black or khaki pants because he said it made life easier.

He did, however; was able to join the military because of his ability to see through camouflage. It was uncanny.

As for black and white color blindness, that?s really rare and it is a disability. I?m sorry you had to deal with an uncaring person. Could you possibly call them back and explain the situation?

 

[Mad World]

She should have been more understanding. Also, Best Buy employees wear uniforms, anyway.

She sounds like the typical manager (or head manager; usually they do interviews, I think); give them a bit of power and they abuse it. It's absolutely pathetic.

 

[Cavan]

I suggest you go to a clothing store and buy suits in sets, you should be going to interviews in a suit and you only need 1 or 2 suits to be able to do that. That is how I do it, and if I can't then I will ask for help either from a friend or from the person in the store because it is their job to help sell you clothes.

I am severely red green colourblind and so I do not have the same level of problems, do understand the compulsion to just be done with the things which you find unfathomable but it's not that difficult to just have a plain black suit with a fairly plain white shirt with maybe black stripes or some very basic sewn pattern and then almost any tie will go with that. I own three suits and maybe 10-15 shirt and corresponding tie sets which I had to get for school, most of them I tell apart by the pattern but some of them are too similar even for that and have specific marks on them.

If you are going to a job interview in the mismatched things you'd normally wear then that isn't a colour thing, that's laziness and almost any job interviewer would mentally judge you for not putting the effort in to your appearance. True that most of them wouldn't even mention it to you, they'd just cross you off their list instead.

 

[spartan231490]

Color Blind is the common name but the real name is color deficient and it is a disability. I am in the very few percent of the population that is completely color blind as I only see in black and white and have never seen color before in my life. For me this means that I have set outfits and will only wear a shirt with the pants that is a part of the outfit. Clothes are not my thing even more so now I live on my own. I have gone to a wedding in a horrible outfit that caused half my family to hate me. I shop for clothes rarely because it is a very unpleasant experience with having to rely heavily on employees who are not trained to deal with me and what I need them to do. My normal outfit is jeans with a white or black shirt.
Any way the most recent job that this has lost me was during the interview process for a position at a Best Buy. The problem was the clothes I was wearing and the manager who interviewed me wasted no time insulting how horrible I looked and that she couldn?t believe I would come to interview dressed like. I explained to her that I was color blind but she could care less saying ?That it is not her fault that I was up to dressing myself?. She then proceeded to ask me a few questions and insulted me again on my clothes and told me not to contact them that they would contact me.
Yes, this was a world class ***** I was dealing with but to deny someone a job, which I desperately needed at the time, because of a disability now that is just evil, right? I want your opinion on this, please.
But first my response to anyone who starts asking me to the stupid questions ?what?s this color?? or ?Can you see this color??
?You are asking a disabled person to do something that is impossible for him. Just like asking a crippled to walk or asking someone with a speech impediment to order Chinese food.

I think she was correct. I'm sorry to say it, but you said yourself that there are ways around that particular downfall of your disability. I mean hell, if you have normal outfits pre-put together so you know that they match and look ok, then you should have done the same in spades for the clothing you wore to an interview. You didn't because you couldn't be bothered to. I mean, you only need one set of clothes for interviews, two at absolute most if you want a spare just in case. Call a friend or a family member to double check that it looks ok. For that matter, you should have done the same thing during the wedding incident.

I'm truly sorry that you have a disability, but there are ways around it, and with something as important as a job interview, you should have gone through the effort.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

It's discrimination for sure.

It's not discrimination. If he can't dress appropriately for the job its a problem. He also demonstrated complete lack of initiative. If I can't spell, I have someone read over my resume before I send it in. He could similarily have made a proactive effort on his part. I've had a number of legally blind friends over the years, they knew the colour of everything they wore and what went with what. If they can do it, so could the OP.

Okay.

Anyways, that is why I suggested to the OP what I did.

 

[fulano]

My take: put that asshole chick on blast. Make a youtube video where you plainly state what store you requested the job at and the name of the interviewer and how she treated you b/c of your disability.

You'd be amazed how it may at least get her a scolding.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Best Buy discriminated against you. Sue them. It's bullshit that the person interviewing you would be so unprofessional and downright discriminatory. When I worked at Best Buy my co-workers and higher-ups were just negligent but to be insulted like that is terribly low. I'm sorry you've had to endure such bullcrap.

 

[Chemical Alia]

If you know that dressing a certain way is an important part of the interview, and know that you can't see color, why wouldn't you take the extra steps necessary to make sure your outfit matched? If the job is important to you, you will have to take extra initiative, even if it doesn't seem fair.

 

[Slash Joel]

You could've had like a friend to help you with your clothes. Not her fault. She wouldn't have known you had a disability from first impressions.

I did explain it to her.

 

[Slash Joel]

Poor college student though.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Color Blind is the common name but the real name is color deficient and it is a disability. I am in the very few percent of the population that is completely color blind as I only see in black and white and have never seen color before in my life. For me this means that I have set outfits and will only wear a shirt with the pants that is a part of the outfit. Clothes are not my thing even more so now I live on my own. I have gone to a wedding in a horrible outfit that caused half my family to hate me. .

Damn, man... I don't have any real problems, more that I'm just shambolically disorganised, and my family and friends will just make sure I'm bloody well ready and look at least reasonable in advance. I essentially get 'you're gonna have a shave and sort your hair out then you're gonna wear THIS and shut the hell up'. They must know, if they let you show up not looking how THEY wanted, it's not your fault, and they need to let it go. I'm sorry you're getting crap for something that could have been avoided with a little basic help.

As for Best Buy, sure, you could have done some things to make your outfit more suitable, but she did not have the right to give you that kind of shit, in a professional position. She can explain what she didn't find appropriate, but she came across as plain abusive, and I think you got lucky not having to work for her.

Also , quick question, don't Best buy supply the damned uniform anyway? blue n khaki wasn't going to change to lime green and purple just because you'd touched them, I'm guessing?

To me, once you'd got the gear from them, there'd be no problem picking that stuff out each morning, and she was just being an ass.

A little Best Buy annoying just to make you feel better


I'd like to think I don't judge people on how they dress, then I think of wiggas and chavs, and my first thought is 'if you don't want to be treated like a mentally subnormal minor criminal, don't dress like one. If I didn't want kids to be scared of me, I'd throw out my clown suit.'

 

[LobsterFeng]

Does your area have like a job rehab for disabilities or something like that? Because you sound perfectly eligible for that.

 

[Bob_Dobb]

So? I got dysgraphia and I didn't get hired at the pub because I couldn't write orders, It's not discrimination. If you are unable to do something, you are unfit to be employed there so look for other jobs. I went to McDonalds because the orders are put through computers. You need to tough up and if you write on your CV like you do on your forum title, you shouldn't be hired where basic grammar is a necessity.

 

[rednose1]

While she was being a "world class *****" about the clothes issue, I don't think it was discrimination. I feel for ya man, being judged on your clothing suchs, and should've been a non issue after you explained it. As for the outfit thing, I would think you could use different shaped tags to anontate which outfits go together with someone's help. Of course, you've had your whole life to come up with something, whereas I haven't so sure you have a system already that works.