Being overweight can hurt your career along with your health

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Amazing...its almost as if we don't live in a magical gumdrop land where everything is fair and all people are rational. This is news to me...but hopefully some pixie dust will fix this problem right up!

But will the pixie dust help me with my diet?

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: Citrix
funny, we just had a employee meeting this morning announcing the new VP of HR for my company, and guess what he is pretty overweight.

Well, obviously there are exceptions to every rule.

 

[Stunt]

I think they are jumping the gun here; this may not be a discrimination issue.
Many people have made these correlations in the past and I don't think the studies go deep enough. It's dead easy to look at a person and say "they are fatter than normal and make less" but so many other things come into the equation.

For example tall people make more but is that discrimination against short people or are taller people more confident and dominating for positions of leadership. Similarly overweight people could be self-conscious with a low self esteem and limit their abilities to manage or lead people. Being overweight could also be an indication of lack of control, poor organization and lack of motivation; all personality related not appearance.

Then there's the chicken and egg argument...what if lower income people eat worse food (ie. more trips to cheap fast food joints); maybe it's the person's income determining their appearance and not their appearance determining their income.

Personally i don't think discrimination is going on here.

 

[Termagant]

Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper
Tall people do better in life, too.

I've never understood the relationship between height and productive ability, at least for white collar jobs, but perhaps I've missed something.

In those few seconds that a shorter person has to ask a taller colleague to reach something from the top shelf, the taller competitor is making an extra sale.