Getting disability because its too hot for you to work because your pregnant, really?

[Jackie888]

Ok so I have a sister-in-law that is 22-years-old and has started working at a Amazon warehouse. This is like her 8th or 9th job so far. She hates to have to work and is, well I will say it, very lazy. She has worked there about two weeks so far and has now found out that she if pregnant. She went today to get signed up for her Medicaid and Wic. The nurse told her that the doctor might be able to take her out work and put on disability because it would be to hot for her to work there. Do what?

We live in the state of Georgia. And the only thing I can think of is that the nurse was probably thinking she had been working there for a good while and has Short Term Disability through her employer, which she does not have, since only being working there two weeks. She is very excited at the thoughts of getting a check for the next year and not even have to get out of bed. Georgia does not have a disability program for the pregnant do they?

 

[ceecee]

Maybe so...my mom has a renter that is on disability because she is nervous around people! She goes to a dance club every weekend that is packed! Who knows? It seems people are getting all kinds of govt $, the heat is a good one. It's 95 today too hot to work!!!

 

[pixiewings71]

Well, if she's working in an actual warehouse it will get very hot. I work in a warehouse with no office space (I'm the customer service rep but sit at my desk in the warehouse) and it easily gets to be over 100 degrees in here on hot days. We have no a/c because we are in the warehouse....If this wasn't temporary I'd be talking to my dr because extreme heat bothers me too. Now, that doesn't mean I think she should get disability because she's only had this job for 2 weeks, that just means that a warehouse can get very hot, even if it isn't super hot outside.....

 

[doris1976]

I agree with your original assessment.....she is lazy. Everybody wants a free government check because.....everyone else is doing it. What a bunch of bs.

 

[Nature Mom]

I live in GA and was on complete, hospitalized bed-rest when I was pregnant with my DD12 from 9 weeks until she delivered at 33 weeks. I could not get disability and I had worked full-time for quite a while. My job (a law-firm) didn't even have to guarantee me a place of employment once I was able to work again, but that was due more to size of the firm. Larger companies like Amazon may allow for short-term disability, but I doubt that your SIL could get it with that little amount of time. Especially if she was pregnant before she was hired...many companies have a required amount of time for just these type of scenarios.

 

[AntePrincess]

Wow. She may be irresponsible from your description, but there's no way I think a 22yo pregnant woman should be doing heavy lifting in a hot warehouse. What do you propose be done? One way or the other, if she keeps the pregnancy it would appear she'll have to leave the job, so is the problem the possibility she might receive disability?

 

[nobellybutton]

Maybe so...my mom has a renter that is on disability because she is nervous around people! She goes to a dance club every weekend that is packed! Who knows? It seems people are getting all kinds of govt $, the heat is a good one. It's 95 today too hot to work!!!

Omg...this sounds like people @ my job I work for big corporate communication company...and we have people @ work for over a year, that can't do a customer service job on the phone because of depression, anxiety, etc. but continue to earn the same pay as everyone but only make copies or filing, it's disgusting and it's becoming an epidemic, people should be investigated as well as the doctors! I was born with a birth defect where my in thermal organs are in disarray but I've never thought to "milk" condition in order to get a free ride, well not free because I've work since I was 15, so I have 20yrs paying into my social security. It disgusts me...
And original poster I have a sister in law who went out on "unemployment" instead of disability so that the govmt could pay her 2yrs...and now pregnant again, and she has the audacity to complain about it.....they why have another child?l

 

[Disneychix]

Clearly she didn't disclose to the Dr that she's only worked at Amazon for a couple weeks. Even if Dr does issue that she goes out on disability it doesn't mean she'll get any money-did anyone let her know that? Dr can take her out of work but it doesn't mean she's earned any short-term disability money. Don't benefits like that take some time to accumulate anyway? She would've had to work at least 90 days or something like that?
I would imagine if this is the mentality she's had before she was pregnant that probably she'll just stop working anyway and 'live' off the gov't.

 

[Jackie888]

Well I will say this. First of all I had a very normal, healthy pregnancy. But I too worked in a mill for 8 months beside a 1500 degree oven and worked my butt off in the massive heat. It can be done. And I was 32 when I did it, not 22!! I am positive that the nurse she was talking to at the health department assumed she had been there a little while and not two weeks, and had disability insurance, but she does'nt. She has yet to even work a whole 40hrs in either weeks. But I will say she did'nt know she was preggos when she got hired.

Either way within one month she will have quit, fired or gotten them to somehow take her out of work be she is preggos. Shes not gonna work period.

 

[clintswifeymomof4]

It was HER decision to get pregnant and HER decision to take a job working in a hot warehouse... it should not now become MY problem to support her through government assistance. She won't get anything from the government... if this was the case, everyone would take undesirable jobs and then drop their panties in order to sit on their butts for 10 months. Bologna!

 

[happily single]

I'm pretty sure she wouldn't qualify for any type of disability check. Here in RI we have a system called TDI (Temporary Disability Insurance). A small amount is taken out of your pay every week and if the dr states you cannot work (for whatever reason) you can collect. BUT you need to have paid in enough money in order to collect.

I'm not sure, but I beleive for welfare you need to have a child, so she probably wouldn't qualify for that.

And unemployment? Doesn't sound like she qualifies for that either.

But, remember, she is 22 and knows it all

 

[Jackie888]

No, shes not going to be able to get any type of disability, but believe me, after this child is born, it will be her ticket to not have to work for the rest of her life pretty much. (Unless she were to find a job that is not outside of her comfort zone.) One of her very first jobs she had she actually did keep for a little over a year. Then she moved onto another job and jot laid off from that and sucked down as much UE insurance benefit as she could get. She drawed an umemployment check for at least a year. The she got hired and fired at Walmart. Another round of UE insurance for her. That in itself spoiled her to not working and still getting a check.

 

[AntePrincess]

Well I will say this. First of all I had a very normal, healthy pregnancy. But I too worked in a mill for 8 months beside a 1500 degree oven and worked my butt off in the massive heat. It can be done. And I was 32 when I did it, not 22!! I am positive that the nurse she was talking to at the health department assumed she had been there a little while and not two weeks, and had disability insurance, but she does'nt. She has yet to even work a whole 40hrs in either weeks. But I will say she did'nt know she was preggos when she got hired.

Either way within one month she will have quit, fired or gotten them to somehow take her out of work be she is preggos. Shes not gonna work period.

Sorry, I just noticed your post count, are you a regular gone anonymous?

 

[Jackie888]

Sorry, I just noticed your post count, are you a regular gone anonymous?

Yes, I am ashamed of some of my family.

 

[Nature Mom]

Yes, I am ashamed of some of my family.

Aren't we all?!

 

[luvmy3]

Jeff Bezos has pledged to spend $52 million this year retrofitting Amazon's warehouses with AC. I guess its a good thing she started before they got to hers so she can go out in disability

10 Things Amazon won't tell you
http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/tec...90486/?link=SM_hp_middle_optStory#articleTabs

7. "We're slow to improve our working conditions."
Amazon has come a long way since founder and CEO Jeff Bezos set up the company in his garage and packed boxes himself. Now the company has corporate offices, customer service centers, warehouses in 18 states, and 69 "fulfillment centers" globally. But not all of them are exactly state of the art. Last summer, some Amazon workers in a warehouse in Allentown, Penn. fainted due to temperatures in the building that soared above 95 degrees. Some workers were taken to the hospital, prompting complaints to federal authorities. After a local newspaper, The Morning Call, wrote about the incident last September, Amazon did not dispute the report and set aside $2.4 million to install industrial air conditioning units in four of its distribution centers.

At the time, the retailer said in a statement that it had shortened shifts, increased breaks, issued "constant reminders and help about rehydration," and added extra ice machines. The controversy didn't end there, however: more than 100 protesters staged a rally outside the company's annual shareholders meeting at the Seattle Art Museum last May. At that meeting, Bezos pledged to spend $52 million this year retrofitting its warehouses with air conditioning. The local paper that broke the story has since reported a "dramatic change" at the warehouse.

 

[BubMunkeyBles]

Jeff Bezos has pledged to spend $52 million this year retrofitting Amazon's warehouses with AC. I guess its a good thing she started before they got to hers so she can go out in disability

10 Things Amazon won't tell you
http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/tec...90486/?link=SM_hp_middle_optStory#articleTabs

Well if healthy people are fainting from the heat in the warehouses I guess I could see the issue working there while pregnant.

I'm extremely heat sensitive since doing chemo three years ago. But I also wouldn't take a job that would require me to be in it. But I'm also lucky that my husband has a job that supports all of us and I don't need to work.

 

[eliza61]

don't you have to be on the job for a certain amount of time before you're eligible for disability? I would think with only 2 weeks on the job she wouldn't qualify for any thing?

 

[pixiewings71]

No, shes not going to be able to get any type of disability, but believe me, after this child is born, it will be her ticket to not have to work for the rest of her life pretty much. (Unless she were to find a job that is not outside of her comfort zone.) One of her very first jobs she had she actually did keep for a little over a year. Then she moved onto another job and jot laid off from that and sucked down as much UE insurance benefit as she could get. She drawed an umemployment check for at least a year. The she got hired and fired at Walmart. Another round of UE insurance for her. That in itself spoiled her to not working and still getting a check.

I drew UE for 10 months...that doesn't equal lazy, now from your description of her it does sound like laziness but just because one is on UE for an extended amount of time doesn't mean one is lazy.

Jeff Bezos has pledged to spend $52 million this year retrofitting Amazon's warehouses with AC. I guess its a good thing she started before they got to hers so she can go out in disability

10 Things Amazon won't tell you
http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/tec...90486/?link=SM_hp_middle_optStory#articleTabs

Ummmmm, it's regularly well over 100 in our warehouses, it's at least 10-20 degrees hotter in here then it is outside, so if it's 95 outside its at least 105 in here, with no air circulation (we do have fans but then our allergies flare insanely due to the flying dust) it sure feels hotter than that! lol Again, as someone who is sensitive to heat it can be harmful......just sayin'.

don't you have to be on the job for a certain amount of time before you're eligible for disability? I would think with only 2 weeks on the job she wouldn't qualify for any thing?

This is what we are thinking, that because she's only worked 2 weeks she isn't eligible. Might be a short wake up call for her.......

 

[eliza61]

No, shes not going to be able to get any type of disability, but believe me, after this child is born, it will be her ticket to not have to work for the rest of her life pretty much. (Unless she were to find a job that is not outside of her comfort zone.) One of her very first jobs she had she actually did keep for a little over a year. Then she moved onto another job and jot laid off from that and sucked down as much UE insurance benefit as she could get. She drawed an umemployment check for at least a year. The she got hired and fired at Walmart. Another round of UE insurance for her. That in itself spoiled her to not working and still getting a check.

I'm not understanding how she's getting unemployment? Unemployment usually has yearly minimum requirements. I worked for walmart (whichis why I boycott it) and generally they keep most employees under those yearly minimums so they Don't have to pay out unemployment bennies (it's been almost 20 years so don't take my word as gospel but I thought that's how it work) and if you get fired you generally don't collect either.