you shouldn’t be eating the food in the kitchen. thats like licking your fingers. gross. being diabetic shouldn’t matter no matter the job unless its driving a truck. the owners didn.t look beyond the fact she said i am a diabetic.
Heck, I’m T2 - and I’ll eat all the durneded chocolate in the world, when and if I want to! Hire me! Ain’t no difference that I’m diabetic! Bring it!
What a crock of …
Right here on TU, we have a pastry chef - That is a Type 1 Diabetic. Diabetes should not keep you from doing any job you please. Not hiring someone due to diabetes is pure discrimination.
sorry to keep going round on this. you’re right that it’s the chef’s kitchen and they should be able to choose their personnel to run it BUT a person can’t get a job solely because they are a diabetic/have a family history of cancer/is an eskimo that is discriminatory and I would imagine is actionable legally (again not a lawyer)
The diabetic pastry chef one, is a member here at TU. She is one of the people I look up to 
I have to ask, is this the show that has, (im really not sure the most politically correct term) little people owning/running this shop? If I am thinking of the right thing and they did discriminate against this potential employee for a disability, isn’t that a little ironic?
I am not trying to be mean or hit a sensitive issue.
You’d be covered by ADA assuming there are 15 or more employees. I haven’t seen the movie.
If only that was today. The hired would be able to be sued. Lol. It’s to bad it has to be that way. But good for your daughter.!!!
Well tell her I apreciate her for having an interveiw at a chocolate shop!!!
you can’t be serious and say a diabetic doesn’t “get” chocolate or food…
I’m diabetic and it will be a cold day in double hockey sticks before i don’t know what good chocolate or desserts are.
Honestly being diabetic should be more reason to be involved with food. I worked in a Mexican restaurant and though i may not have ate the deep fried chimichangas as much as the other waiters, i knew well enough based on costumer input and having tried it before that it was worth suggesting. I knew well enough to not include it in my daily eating, but that doesn’t mean if i didn’t want it i couldn’t have it (really i’m thinking about the delicious mango cheesecake… sliver didn’t kill me).
SO NO you should never ban anybody from a job just because your diabetic, i know there is some special circumstances but i don’t think that includes making chocolates.
try denying robyn chocolate she might just have to kill you… seroiusly
Yes! Listen to Domo…Chocolate is pure heaven to my taste buds. Just plain old Hershey’s kisses or a bar.Yummy , I will inject with pleasure to have my heaven. When I am cured, I will bathe in it. 
Here is a link to the EEOC website specifically on applying equal employment opportunities to persons w/ diabetes. I got a little concerned when I read the 2009 position paper by the Amer Diabetes Assoc…stating that employers could question your fitness and have you medically examined…I guess this is only true if they have offered you the job and then have some reason to believe that you cannot do the job…meaning they find out you have diabetes after offering you the job. In any case, they have to prove you are a risk to yourself or others and hyperglycemia cannot be used as a reason.
isn’t it crazy that we have to defend chocolate, be it from making it to eating it!? lol
I’m not a baby. I don’t think you would apreciate not getting hired becz of an ilness. I don’t even want to call it an illness bcz. It’s not like were like on bed rest or not able to move
anyways… if it was a job like working in a Peanut butter factory making the penut butter. I can see where there would be a problem
don’t let having diabetes effect you or hol you back from doing things
Oh sorry I forgot to add that if you were working in a penut factory making the peanut butter. But you were allergic to peanuts. Lol. Sorry…
Oh sorry I forgot to add that if you were working in a penut factory making the peanut butter. But you were allergic to peanuts. Lol. Sorry…
As of Jan. '09, diabetics are covered under the American with Disabilities Act, Amendment 2008 Act. This means that federal law now backs us up. Go for it!
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adaaa_notice.cfm
Too true! Well somebody had to pave the road.