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anonymous

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Someone told me that the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation does not hire people with CF? I think this is horrible. If this is true could someone please tell me why?
 

Siobhan1985

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Hiya

I can't answer your question exactly as I don't know aboout the CF Foundation. I know over here it would be difficult to have lots of CF
ers working together due to cross infection - it would be no good for anyone as we'd all be getting ill! But we do have patient advocates that work for the CF Trust here and they all have CF but work from home and communicate via email, post, etc. They're not trying to be horrible it's just to stop cross infection!!!

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anonymous

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I have never heard of that, I applied for a job with them once...I did not even get a call. Any yes I was qualified for the job. Of course, I usually never tell my employer I have CF. If they find out fine, but I am not going to be the one telling them! On that job I did thinking it would help, I should have known better.
 

shamrock

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I think it would be difficult with cross infection but Im not sure whether they can have set rules "no cf-ers" as that would be obvious discrimination. Why don't you post an faq?
 

Emily65Roses

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Not true. A CF friend of the family named Paul was the CT chapter's executive director up until recently, when he resigned of his own account, because he needed to go elsewhere and make more money (he got married somewhat recently, I imagine that's part of why he needs more money).
 
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