Posted on 12/11/2017 11:29:36 AM PST by sparklite2
Radio personality Shavonne Patrice Owens, 37, says she experienced weight discrimination firsthand when she applied for a daycare job in Huntsville, Alabama, two years ago. Despite having all the qualifications for the job, Owens says her friend — a former employee of the daycare center in question (whose employment later terminated) — told her the reason she was ultimately passed over for the job was because of her weight.
Owens, who was 525 pounds at 5’11” at the time of her interview with the daycare center, said that this incident “hurt for a second, just for a second… but I know who I am and because of my weight, it has restricted me from a lot of things.” Looking back, she said she’s lost out on other career opportunities (such as jobs in retail that would have required prolonged periods of standing), and she suspects her size was working against her.
What’s more,“the standards for physical appearance are stricter for women than men. Women are more likely to be evaluated on their physical appearance,” says Dr. Kelly Brownell, the dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. This, he explains, makes it even harder for overweight or obese women to contend with recruiters’ prejudicial biases against them.
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I’d have no issues with someone relatively lighter, as long as they can get around as the job requires. I am assuming the 500+ means she can’t move enough.
That was so uncalled for...but thanks for the laugh!
Friends of ours who owned a company purchased a really costly program on hiring practices. There were three types of people/profiles to never hire. One type was an obese person under fifty who did not have a medical condition causing the obesity. The reason was, most had emotional issues contributing to the weight, were found to be antisocial and generally were untruthful as well as lazy, were late or absent from work at a much higher percentage than other employees.
LOL
Honestly I would expect this blimpo to be offered a chance to train for one of the “new & diverse” American military’s spec-ops groups...
That’s sort of a myth, that margarine contains things similar to plastic. But you could make plastic out of the vegetable oil that margarine contains. It would just be a different process.
Sorry, not buying it. Matter just can’t magically appear from nothing. If someone is gaining weight it can only happen if they are putting more calories into their body than they are burning off through physical activity.
“Well, she could be an astronaut...”
You are what you eat?
I’ll say one thing for it; it’s pushing 100 comments in record time for a non-disaster thread.
I think it spirals out of control for many, even if they had some level of discipline. It causes people to become depressed and many turn to food, exacerbating the problem. Once you’re big your body demands food, you probably have a larger stomach too - so just “cutting down” is hard than some realize.
I’ve been quite overweight, technically I still am but I’m down to a healthy level and able to be quite active. It was very hard, it took years and I wasn’t anywhere near where some people are. There’s still a lot of bad advice out there (low fat, high carb diets). Once you’re large, exercise is exponentially more difficult to do and is easily given up upon. I learned to eat a low carb, highly nutrient based & protein diet, only eating until I wasn’t hungry - never eat till full. Anything “golden brown” is pretty much a “no”. Along with walking a couple of miles a day.
In this country we “build outward”, requiring a vehicle for many. It is not a walking culture as are many European or Asian countries. This really doesn’t help. The other temptation are “buffets”, they’re the worst possible type of restaurant. The proportion of overweight people that eat at these places is very high, they’re almost a public health concern.
...just sayin’ - I tend to feel sorry for many because it didn’t happen overnight, none of them want-to-be, and what is needed to undo it can be a tough road.
When she sits around the house, SHE SITS AROUND THE HOUSE.
And margarine isn’t really yellow. When it first came out, the dairy industry wouldn’t let the whitish color of margarine be changed to look like butter so yellowing was stirred into it by the cook at home.
That’s funny because it’s the opposite where I work.
All of us are regular size, we have one employee that is very obese and one who is super skinny. Our super skinny gal loves walking through the lunch room making comments about everyone’s lunch. She also loves standing in line when we have catered luncheons and loves to announce to everyone how bad everything is and how wonderful she is for skipping it. I wish I had a dime for every eye roll I see when she does this.
No one cares to hear her unsolicited comments. No one can stand to be anywhere near her. She thinks it’s everyone else’s fault that she sits alone at lunch. It’s really quite a shame actually. If everyone would just mind their own business, they’d get along (I think).
She wouldn’t be a caretaker so much as a babysitter. She’d sit around and look at your baby.
I have never met a morbidly obese person who did not have psychological and/or abuse issues that contributed - so who would want such a person in a daycare setting?!
Dear customer, please watch out for cow pies.
That is close enough for me to have avoided margarine unless I’m eating dinner someplace else and there was no butter available...
I suppose I’m just lucky because I don’t have to try very hard. High metabolism or something. But I have very overweight people in my extended family, whom I don’t see often, and I’ve noticed they can eat a horse in one meal. Another person I know had something done to reduce the size of her stomach, and she started losing weight not much later. More discipline could have also done it, I suppose. But I used to be a smoker and I know now that “just quitting” is not as easily said as done.
She has ‘big bones.’
;p
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