Help with Daughter's Boss My nearly 18 yr old daughter is ADHD and while she is on medication it isn't a total solution, but our health plan doesn't cover therapy and we frankly can't afford it. However, she graduated HS early and got a job at a local independant diner style eatery (think Mel's from Alice). She has been working there since March and has only asked for time off twice, one night in May for Prom, and a week in June to participate in her HS graduation ceremony and to go to the beach (this was her grad present from her aunt). She has worked any time other than this, including when her boss has texted her at 5AM asking her to show up at 8. When she was hired she disclosed her condition because nothing there is written down, no employee rules, no opening list, no closing list ... nothing. He kinda makes things up as he goes ... so, she ended up making her own lists to help her when she had to do things on her own. It also took her a bit longer to learn all the different keys on the register, but she had also never run one before. Schedules are rather haphazard at this business, the boss makes them on Sunday evening after close and the employees have to go by or call each Monday to find out when they work each week. He has never said anything negative to my daughter about her work habits until yesterday when she called in for her schedule and he told her that the note she left on Saturday letting him know she can't work this coming Saturday (I saw the note it said "M...., I'm sorry, I'm not available to work on 7/31. Thanks. T...." ) was rude, and that her some of her fellow employees are complaining that it takes her longer to close when she is by herself on the floor because she has to check off everything on her list. Her boss said that because of these two issues he didn't put her on the schedule for this week and she needs to take this time and re examine her work ethic. She asked him if he had any customer complaints about her and he said no, all the customers complimented her and seemed to like her. He said it was just other employees said she is slow in closing. She reminded him that because of her ADHD she might be a little slower because she goes by the list and makes sure everything is checked off and double checks everything. His response to her was that he doesn't understand this ADHD stuff because they didn't have when he was growing up people just learned to get over it and deal so maybe she does too. (I'd promised her I would not say anything and just listen to the conversation ... but can we guess I was seeing red at this point?)

Can anyone give us any advice on this matter? Either information I can pull and give her boss on dealing with ADHD employees or something she can do to perhaps keep her job? She is paying her own way through college and here in NC jobs for teens are difficult to come by.

Thanks

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