Archived Water

[Flow Warrior]

If you need to be hydrated for medical reasons, you need to produce the documentation beforehand, not create a 'gotcha!' moment when someone questions you.

needing water isn't a gotcha. Being denied it when you need it is. Documentation simply backs you up.

 

[BeelzeBecky]

We're all allowed water in sealed containers (bottles, sports bottles, lidded cups) but some people cheat and keep coffee or even a can of Monster. They're gonna blow it for the rest of us.

 

[SrTLall]

needing water isn't a gotcha. Being denied it when you need it is. Documentation simply backs you up.

Wrong. If you need water for medical reasons, you provide documentation beforehand. You don't produce documentation after someone tells you can't have water, and then go complain to law enforcement that someone told you that you can't have water, even though you have a medical issue that you haven't disclosed to management. That is what you said, as ridiculous as it sounds.

 

[Tessa120]

Wrong. If you need water for medical reasons, you provide documentation beforehand. You don't produce documentation after someone tells you can't have water, and then go complain to law enforcement that someone told you that you can't have water, even though you have a medical issue that you haven't disclosed to management. That is what you said, as ridiculous as it sounds.

The ADA requires reasonable accommodations. However the onus is on the individual to identify themselves as disabled and explain the reasonable accommodations they will need prior to such accommodations being implemented. In other words, you're right, the medically needy person needs to bring a doctor's note in prior to bringing the water bottle in.