Want To Employ Me [question mark] (a poem about employment)

(WORDS for the poem) • • Want to employ me? / Let’s explore how we accommodate / because there is a diversity of problems faced, / Disrespectful, / too noisy, / Inequality is commonplace. / So you want to employ me? / Let’s explore how we accommodate. / • Feelings as if councils dodge costs, / fobbed off to a hodgepodge of jobs; the prize? / Surely the objective should be to holistically optimise / Limiting opportunities / with mandates of formal introductions / alter the landscape with reasonable adjustments. / Sensory factors can be painful, / Some dislike being still at fancy tables or on chairs / How economic accumulation compares / is not indicative of whether they belong there. / The vulnerable are rampant, panicked / due to bands for flats, / support already scant and lax, / these sanction brackets are handicaps / We mean business, with devotion from its sectors / and no, we do not mean tokenistic gestures / Haphazardly spoken instructions despite asking for written, / Communicate with clarity, let us impart on decisions. / Redefine the standards of a neurotypically targeted system. / • Want to employ me? / Let’s explore how we accommodate / because there is a diversity of problems faced, / Disrespectful, / too noisy, / Inequality is commonplace. / So you want to employ me? / Let’s explore how we accommodate. • • [Editor: sincere apologies for all the clunky line endings expressed as / Hope to rectify soon with the next round of development - when funding materialises!]

Keywords: employment, BBC, autism, ADHD, Jobs, poetry, Employ Me, attitude