Playing the 'diabetes card'?

[Northerner]

Carlisle man sacked for mimicking Scottish accent, tribunal told

A betting shop boss from Carlisle was sacked after an angry Scottish customer accused him of being racist by mimicking his accent, a tribunal heard. Matthew Langley, 28, who lost his job as manager of the Southwaite M6 services branch of Ladbrokes following the incident in September last year, told a tribunal that he may have unintentionally imitated the man’s accent.

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/c...cent-tribunal-told-1.853619?referrerPath=home

It does sound like a stressful situation and my reading of the evidence as presented here would seem to suggest that the only thing he did wrong was the imitation of the accent. I can certainly imagine my blood sugar being affected, a shame it doesn't say whether Type 1 or Type 2 and I wonder if he took a BG reading? I wonder if we'll ever know the outcome?

Are there any situations where you have used your diabetes to try and get you out of a situation?

 

[AJLang]

I don't believe in using diabetes at work unless it is for very genuine reasons eg needing a chance to check BGs or dealing with a hypo. Sometimes it is necessary, particularly once you get complications, to consider the effects of the diabetes at work, BUT it should only be mentioned when there are genuine problems that you can't resolve yourself eg when I had just diabetes I didn't have a problem with travelling abroad for work but now with my complications and additional very regular medications I would find it impossible.

 

[Abi]

Agree with the above sentiment but it sounds as if the man involved was not in a position ( too intimidated or embarassed) to treat his hypo and the behavious of the customer was abysmal to say the least- I am surprised that he wa s not given a warning and banned fom the premises- what's wrong with our society?

 

[margie]

Only on a long haul flight - where the man sitting next to me was trying to give me food and didn't want to take no for an answer. In the end I just said I had to be careful what I was eating because of my diabetes - truish. I don't want to accept food from people I don't know - and a long haul flight is not the place to cause an atmosphere - which could have been created otherwise.

 

[gail2]

only once lost my house keys got in touch with coucil got told there would be a 3 hour wait as i was 1 hour from taking insulin i was concerned and told her so she said i will put you top of list he was there 20 mins later

 

[hyper-Suze]

I tend to kick up a fuss in pubs and clubs if they give me full sugar coke after asking for diet but there is a truth behind it, it would cause me problems but I always feel guilty and as if I am using the big D as an excuse!!!

 

[Northerner]

I think everyone's reasons are perfectly valid ones 🙂

 

[tracey w]

Never in a work situation and would hate to have to. I believe i should not be treated any differently from those without diabetes so it would be wrong to get special treatment unnecessarily.

But, ........... im afraid to say i did use it recently in a social situation. I was hypo though. Been cleaning the house upstairs, bit over zelous and went hypo so drank my lucozade and lay on bed. Told OH who was downstairs and that i was lying down but ok...........Then the parents in law came round to visit unanounced and could not be bothered with it.

They kept shouting upstairs for me to come and see them 😡😡 i was in no mood and shouted down leave me alone i dont feel well 😱 think they got the message and left.

 

[Northerner]

...They kept shouting upstairs for me to come and see them 😡 i was in no mood and shouted down leave me alone i dont feel well 😱 think they got the message and left.

I hate unannounced visits! I've used it (legitimately, I feel) in a social situation when I was supposed to be going out for a meal but had had a series of bad hypos and felt rough as a box of frogs so bowed out.

 

[tracey w]

I hate unannounced visits! I've used it (legitimately, I feel) in a social situation when I was supposed to be going out for a meal but had had a series of bad hypos and felt rough as a box of frogs so bowed out.

Thing is you do genuinely feel rough at times and i like to be by myself at times like this, i dont like people fussing around me.

 

[Northerner]

Thing is you do genuinely feel rough at times and i like to be by myself at times like this, i dont like people fussing around me.

I'm exactly the same. I'm very self-sufficient and hate being fussed over, (unless it's Ms. Bush of course! 😉)