Reply to: Tubbyism in the Workplace

[datestamp]

Well, being fat never stopped the Teletubbies from getting picked for their tv role.

But it is stopping Gordon Brown from being PM. If Gordon could lose 100 percent of his body weight, I'm sure we'd all be a lot happier.

[Board Game Geek]

I think you will find most businesses of today employ people on individual merit.

If the IPD are intent on employing people due to girth size, then it's them that have a problem and need to be educated. To55ers.

I've never met anyone in HR that added "value" to the business. In fact, all they seem to do is cause discord and strife. Ironic really !

HR are a convenient barrier for gutless and incompetent managers to hide behind, so they don't have to face the troops head on.

[stackpole]

Send all fat people back where they came from!

[mcquiggd]

Send all fat people back where they came from!

[OwlHoot]

Personal experience shows I am not as healthy now as I was.

However I also know I am far more likely to get the gig now because of flawed perceptions favouring the new slimmed down me.

Snag is if you slim drastically over a certain age your skin sags and wrinkles, and you start looking as old as Methusaleh. Take Nigel Lawson for example, a former tory chancellor - After he suddenly went on a diet a few years ago and lost two or three stone he looked like a bassett hound!

[bfg]

Isn't that "living in denial"?

Never had a day off sick in the preceding 10 years+.
Off sick the 3rd time in those 3 years today.

Personal experience shows I am not as healthy now as I was.

However I also know I am far more likely to get the gig now because of flawed perceptions favouring the new slimmed down me.

[Mordac]

Well, it happens but it's bollocks that you are 'more healthy' if you're 'less fat'.

Isn't that "living in denial"?

[bfg]

Maybe I'm still fat??

Well, it happens but it's bollocks that you are 'more healthy' if you're 'less fat'.

I lost 4 stone 3 years back (and kept it off) because I know it happens and the market was getting very tight.

Never had a day off sick in the preceding 10 years+.
Off sick the 3rd time in those 3 years today.

Still having trouble in interviews though, can't think why:

[Joe Black]

I don't see this as an issue. My experience in the public sector has shown that there are more than enough opportunities for gravity challenged individuals.

[Lucifer Box]

weight is a "small aspect" which some employers take into account.

A "large aspect", surely?

Lucifer in "fond of a pie himself" mode.

[Rebecca Loos]

I like the patronising line "Ms Dempsey added that a "clearer definition of obesity" was needed to help businesses understand how it "truly affects" workplace performance.
"

I think Mr Dempsey will find that businesses understand exactly how it affects workplace performance and that's why they've had to take action in some circumstances.

Rebecca "you can't be a fat DBA and be expected to slim down databases" Loos

[BobTheCrate]

The magazine survey of 2,000 personnel officers

No need to go any further ... there's the problem straight away.

What about a big porker of a salesman stuck in his BMW all day eating Burger King from the services?

But if he makes just one sale a day or week - that is an infinitely more valuable contribution to the business than any personnel officer could even dream of making.

[WageSlave]

What about a big porker of a salesman stuck in his BMW all day eating Burger King from the services?

Keeps me in business.

[The Lone Gunman]

What about a big porker of a salesman stuck in his BMW all day eating Burger King from the services? Would you put him and his sweaty pits in front of a prospect happily?

If he closes the deal day in day out then yes.
I would employ Mr Creosote if he made the grade.
Its all about competative advantage.

[ratewhore]

What about a big porker of a salesman stuck in his BMW all day eating Burger King from the services? Would you put him and his sweaty pits in front of a prospect happily?