DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, December 5, 2014
-- Deaf Oops
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency, in Kyotanabe-shi,
a Japanese city, wanted to test its emergency alerting
system with its deaf residents (emails and faxes). The
message "alerted" these people of an emergency crisis.
Yes, deaf people were scared, but when they looked out
the windows, nothing was happening. The agency admitted
they forgot to put on top of the message - "this is a test."
Making it worse was the 2-hour delay in sending this
"this is a test" corrected message!
-- Matt Hamill's retirement and unretirement
Why did Matt Hamill, the deaf fighter, retire and then a year
later, come back? He said friends, coaches and his daughter
would not leave him alone, begging him to come back again.
And when he came back, he could not avoid pain and injury
during practice and training sessions. He also said these
pains were caused by 28 years of continuous competion
(youth wrestling, high school wrestling, college wrestling
and then professional fighting). He did not do well in his
last match against an out of shape fighter.
-- a deaf boss in a job he loves
John Merks, who is deaf, is the head chocolatier with
the Mildura Chocolate Company in Mildura, a city in
Australia. Why does he love this job despite hard
work, long hours and struggling with production
problems (machines do break down, etc) and dealing
with problem employees? He said:
I just love chocolate
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