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That's cool. When I'm an employer I'll avoid hiring Christians because they're hypocritical and self-righteous POS' who don't embody what they claim to believe.

People keep talking about how being obese doesn't portray an ideal health care worker. I get it. Fat people usually aren't healthy. However, this hospital is about job PERFORMANCE.

R.A.T.T. has a great point. Unless a hospital really is in the business of hoping people get sick because they profit then they should be educating and enabling people to not have to come back. When you go to a hospital and there are obese workers outside smoking cigarettes it just sends a ridiculous message. IYAM

Where did I say anyone doing the hiring doesn't know what they're doing? I only said I don't really understand how a doctor can look at someone who is obese, applying for a job that has no physical labor required, and say they shouldn't be hired because they can't perform the task.

Like I said in an earlier post. I know of several hospitals that have shitcanned people for smoking. It's becoming more and more common.

I have the same question as why would a physically unhealthy person be hired at a health clinic.

Save it for another thread, friend.

I laugh because all of you want to ban fatties like they tried to rid Germany of Jews.

Who's next, drinkers and pot smokers? They will have terrible liver problems and lung disease. Then blondes because they are more likely to get melanoma. Breast augmentation is unhealthy, ban it. Burgers and fries-gone. Pizza, down the road.

You stupid Nazi a-holes think that once the people who don't fit your idea of normal are gone they won't turn on you for something like the fact that your grandparents had cancer or that you have a physical deformity.

I'll bet half the people hating in this thread would fail a physical fitness test.

Well I smoke, drink and like pot.

I'm just not in the healthcare business. I design WWTP's, sewer systems and pump stations. I personally don't care if this hospital hires fatties or not. I'm just saying that I can see why possibly a hiring manager would want to go in another direction for a healthcare institution.

Also really comparing not hiring a fat person at a hospital to genocide of a race/religion is a big jump. Give me a fvcking break.

No, I just think people should be healthy if they are going to work in a health clinic.

I was in the hospital for two weeks last year and the best three nurses I had were all obese. They were smarter and much more care oriented than the other "prettier" nurses. Not saying that it was because they were fat I'm just saying if the hospital I was in had this policy my care would have suffered.

I'd rather have the hospital start a mandatory exercise program flexible enough for the entire staff. That and serving healthy cafeteria food helps. Most hospitals serve the same crap everyone else does unless you request diet or diabetic meals.

I am a (very soon to be)doctor of obesity, not a medical doctor. I work in community health promotion, primarily in schools. On my staff are 8 nurses; all are obese, 3 of them being morbidly so(50+ BMI). I did not hire them, with all the work they do regarding obesity/exercise/nutrition, it certainly would have been a factor had I been the one hiring them. I would not so openly refuse to hire people on the basis of weight status, but in my work environment I feel strongly that it should be a factor. As a private organization that can choose to hire or not hire whomever they want. I am not saying I agree, but I do like the sentiment that people are beginning to take it seriously.