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Greetings everyone and we at the Sterling Creations business desk are pleased to share our president’s latest editorial with you.
Donna J. Jodhan highlights circumstances where some high profile agencies for the blind and vision impaired are deliberately choosing to pay with gift cards instead of monetary compensation.
Tell us what you think.
Send us your feedback to info@sterlingcreations.ca.
I’m Christian Robicheau wishing you a great weekend.

The Compensation Crunch
by Donna J. Jodhan

For lack of a better title I am going to take a few minutes to paint this picture.
This is a picture that has existed for as long as I can remember and I truly believe that the only way to change it is to speak up, speak out, and identify.

It is my humble opinion that too many universities in Canada along with some high profile agencies in the US continue to believe that when it comes to compensation for work carried out especially so by persons with disabilities,
It is appropriate for them to offer compensation in the form of such things as coupons and gift cards to coffee outlets and to Amazon.

What’s wrong with this picture? What if we were to say that in return for their work, universities and agencies should offer their employees coupons and gift cards in return?
I can bet you anything that there would be a huge uproar from employees!
And maybe some law suits along the way!
Frankly and respectfully so, I find this to be extremely disappointing, disrespectful, and rather condescending.

I would really love to know the reason for this type of strategy. Who does this really benefit?
Who ever came up with this very disrespectful game plan?
Certainly not those who do not frequent coffee outlets let alone shop regularly on Amazon.

I recently had a high profile agency in the US offer me Amazon gift cards in return for my developing and presenting a 2 model course on advocacy.
Needless to say I turned this down.
I could not believe that this particular agency would do this!
Alas! Disrespectful, condescending, and downright rude!

Some time ago I had a researcher from the University of Toronto who had the nerve to offer me a handful of coupons in return for doing a 2 hours consulting project with her.
When I refused she boldly told me that I would be getting my name out there!
I could only shake my head!

Just my two cents for today!

To learn more about me as an award winning sight loss coach and advocate visit www.donnajodhan.com

Greetings everyone and we at the Sterling Creations desk are pleased to present you with our president’s weekly editorial.
And today, Donna J. Jodhan has yet another investigative piece to share with you.
Tell us what you think.
Write to us at info@sterlingcreations.ca
I’m Scott Savoy on behalf of the team wishin you a great weekend.

The Inexcusable Excuse

In my humble opinion, there excuses and then there are excuses.
Some of them can be classified as legitimate but for the most part too many of them are simply inexcusable.

This is how I feel when I was told that a Canadian budget airline put forth the excuse that they are unable to provide accessibility services to passengers requiring assistance.
This is not just disappointing! It is downright disrespectful and most of all it is nothing more than a cop out.

And who is the offender this time? None other than Flair Airlines, based in Edmonton, Alberta. I respectfully submit that if this airline wants to be known as a national airline and one that wishes to adhere to the rules and regulations of the Canadian Airline Industry, then it needs to come up with a much better excuse than this very flimsy one.

In short, what I am hearing here is that because you cannot afford to provide services to Canadians with disabilities because of being a budget airline, you are simply going to crunch the rights of Canadians with disabilities!

Flair! You simply cannot have it both ways! If you wish to gain respect as a national airline and to be part of the Canadian airline industry, then you need to adhere to rules and regulations of said industry. You are supposed to be a federally regulated airline so please familiarize yourself with what this means!

If you feel that due to being a budget airline you simply cannot afford to provide services to traveling Canadians with disabilities then please exit the proverbial kitchen and re-focus yourself as something else.

I will state here that this excuse is no better than the one that several companies continue to proffer; this being that due to cost cutting they are being forced to curtail services to persons with disabilities.

Just my two cents for today.

To learn more about me as an award winning sight loss coach and advocate visit www.donnajodhan.com

Greetings everyone and we at the sterling Creations desk welcome you to the month of April.
Just another investigative piece by our president Donna J. Jodhan and for this week she tells you about a specific supermarket in her neck of the woods that is selling expired products.
Let us know what you think.
Write to us at info@sterlingcreations.ca
I’m Christian Robicheau wishing you a terrific weekend.

The Expiry Date Syndrome
by Donna J. Jodhan

There used to be a time when many of us did not think it necessary to pay attention to expiry dates labels on our packages. However this has been changing quite noticeably over the past few years and the following is a recent experience that I encountered at a Chinese supermarket on the top floor of the Bridlewood Mall.

What stands out here to me is very interesting and here goes.
I bought 2 packages of mango pudding from this supermarket and my friend carefully checked the expiry date on both packages. The dates indicated August 2024 as the expiry date so I took them home and placed them in my fridge.

Later on that day I opened one of these mango puddings and lo and behold! It was no good. It tasted awful, the contents were watery, and it smelled. Horrible. I proceeded to check every mango pudding in both packages. There were 12 in total to check and guess what? They were all no good.

I had to throw them out but what is this telling me? How many other instances are out there of supermarkets selling goods with expiry dates that do not reflect an accurate expiry date? What is even more troubling in this case is that the date said August 2024 and lo and behold! The product was already spoiled?

Could it be that the expiry date was incorrectly stamped on the packages? Or that Heaven help us! This supermarket was deliberately selling old stuff with very old products? Or what could it be?

Since then, I have taken the time to ask others for their feedback and I have discovered that this seems to be a growing problem among several supermarkets. I can only urge others to pay closer attention when they go grocery shopping and to speak up if they run into similar problems.

Just my two cents for today.

To learn more about me as an award winning sight loss coach and advocate visit www.donnajodhan.com