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Good suggestion!

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This is an entry level wage at best, and you want someone with connections & experience & availability & fairly senior things. How is this justified in the award?

It’s not my kind of role but due to ILC funding at the NFP I work for I’m broadly paying attention to the job market for relevant jobs.

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It’s an entry level wage at best, and they want someone with connections & experience & availability and basically fairly senior things. I wonder how they justify that with the award.

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Especially given the recent admittance in the media regarding employment discrimination for people with a disability, the legal industry needs to be all over this shit.

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Oh wow that’s a really poor salary compared to other government comms jobs.

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Co occurring conditions are hell with ME.

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In this case mostly I beleive the DPOs would have had days of planning their media campaigns before they released them, but maybe 😂

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You make me an influencer! I pretty much only get shares when you share me 😂 but mostly I mean this on places like Instagram, the pretty graphics brigade land 😂😂 my job is making me hate graphics even more than I already did

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So yesterday I wrote an email to mark butler and posted it online.

Today the DPOs are speaking up. Im an influencer, I tell you, an influencer!

(Oh fuck, I am not 😂 no one sees my posts because I despise “social first content” and put links to my blog in most posts, and I always will.)

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Today has been frustrating and ridiculous so I’m eating cheese and watching ghosts. I’m tired of being a second class citizen due to disability.

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*you

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I’ll vote for your as skeeter for us all.

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I’m becoming jealous of other houses showers 😂 they can fit accessibility stuff in them & there’s just none that suit mine that I’m comfortable using. I don’t super need it but it would be good on bad days.

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I got the most ridiculous text message before. It’s not mine to share publicly but I’m stewing. Humanity is fucked.

16 hours ago 2 0 1 0

It’s definitely an assumption I’m making but I feel fairly confident in it, because no one really includes disability as a variable in research or marketing, even when it’s disability related. Saw an awful research post yesterday demanding disabled people be verbal for the research

16 hours ago 3 1 1 0

It’s not my best but it’s what I had in me. They claim the budget isn’t set, so tell them what you want to see.

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Like all media…

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It’s not my best but it’s what I had in me. They claim the budget isn’t set, so tell them what you want to see.

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Nah you’re all right. Your situation isn’t but I reckon you’re all right

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All I do is work and be horizontal in the dark to recover from it. It’s boring but keeps me stable so far.

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It’s the unrelenting that gets to me.

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Well my eye is twitching, my arms are weak, my head and neck hurt… but I made it through the work part of Monday.

I just wish I ever had capacity for myself, that it didn’t all go on keeping a roof over my head.

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