DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 12, 2016
-- Deaf Uber Oops
A deaf Uber driver piked up a hearing passenger
in Dallas, Texas. The passenger placed his bags
in the car trunk. After getting off at the
destination, the deaf Uber driver quickly drove
off, just as when the hearing passenger was
going to the trunk to pick up his bags.
There was no way for the hearing passenger
to quickly page the deaf driver. It took
three days for the hearing passenger to get
his bags back! Whose fault is it? Uber's
fault because of the company policy that
lost stuff in the cars are not their
responsibility! Anyway Uber was able to
track down the deaf driver to return
the baggage and the hearing passenger's
ride fee was totally refunded. A
picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/uber-and-deaf-oops/
-- Amazon captions all, refuses speech-to-text
Many people hate Amazon because it is too big.
Yet, Twitch.tv, which is part of Amazon,
said it will caption all of its streams,
not using speech-to-text but using professional
captioners. And Twitch said it will allow
other broadcasters to use twitch's captions.
One less no-captioning lawsuit for us to
worry about!
-- Sign Language classes "for life"
Sign language students attending classes
"for life"? Well, in Shiga, Japan,
police officer started attending
classes in 2001. Fifteen years later
in 2016, these same police officers
are still attending classes! Do
compare this with many American police
officers attending classes for a short
time, hoping they will remember signs
when they arrest a deaf person 15
years later!
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- deaf real state agents, network
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
09/11/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
