http://socyberty.com/work/if-you%e2%80%99re-white-and-female-being-overweight-can-be-really-hazardous-to-your-paycheck/ Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:39:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://socyberty.com/work/if-you%e2%80%99re-white-and-female-being-overweight-can-be-really-hazardous-to-your-paycheck/comment-page-1/#comment-238635 htdjpf Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:05:49 +0000 http://socyberty.com/work/if-you%e2%80%99re-white-and-female-being-overweight-can-be-really-hazardous-to-your-paycheck/#comment-238635 Don't agree with the statement in article that: "the problem here is that your employer is prejudiced, not that there is anything wrong with you." That isn't true. If you are morbidly obese, YOU do have a problem. Your employer is likely already making all sorts of special "accommodations" for you size. The same way they make accommodations for those that are very tall or very small, so it costs them more to keep you as an employee. To make up for that "COST" or "LOSS", you get paid little less than "Bob" who doesn't require the $500 specially reinforced chair, or whatever. There are very few over -weight or obese people that really can’t help it. There are medical conditions that “cause” weight problems and medical conditions that are the result of being over-weight/obese. Now before You start flaming me as a “hater”. I don’t like BMI as they use it. The data for the “tables” for the statistics were taken from a bad sample, (Post WW II Europe, in late 1940’s to early 1960’s. Depression era, WW II, and 1950’s US.). Problem was with that those populations for most part were one step away from starving, so go figure on height/weight ratio. I’m 6’2”. According to BMI charts I should be 168 lbs. If I was that, which I have been in high school, I would be “skin and bones, but at 227lbs I’m according to the BMI charts “obese”. But I only have 12% body fat by other test s. Nuff said. Don’t agree with the statement in article that: “the problem here is that your employer is prejudiced, not that there is anything wrong with you.” That isn’t true. If you are morbidly obese, YOU do have a problem. Your employer is likely already making all sorts of special “accommodations” for you size. The same way they make accommodations for those that are very tall or very small, so it costs them more to keep you as an employee. To make up for that “COST” or “LOSS”, you get paid little less than “Bob” who doesn’t require the $500 specially reinforced chair, or whatever. There are very few over -weight or obese people that really can’t help it. There are medical conditions that “cause” weight problems and medical conditions that are the result of being over-weight/obese. Now before You start flaming me as a “hater”. I don’t like BMI as they use it. The data for the “tables” for the statistics were taken from a bad sample, (Post WW II Europe, in late 1940’s to early 1960’s. Depression era, WW II, and 1950’s US.). Problem was with that those populations for most part were one step away from starving, so go figure on height/weight ratio. I’m 6’2”. According to BMI charts I should be 168 lbs. If I was that, which I have been in high school, I would be “skin and bones, but at 227lbs I’m according to the BMI charts “obese”. But I only have 12% body fat by other test s. Nuff said.

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