The Blue Board

It's a loaded question. Obesity does affect your job performance. Maybe not for a surgeon, specifically while they are in surgery, but if affects many other aspects. I work with a team of nurses who quit(or were asked to quit) working in the hospital because physically they could not keep up; their weight absolutely affected their job performance. There are numerous studies out there about how weight status affects productivity, amount of days missed for illness, etc. I have no problem with a PRIVATE organization making this type of stipulation on who they will hire.

After 7 pages I've decided you could substitute negro for fatty and "know their place" for lose weight and you have a great case for the fact that people never change, just their biases.

Lol at how much liberty people have taken in this thread trying to extrapolate it out to other issues.

I am not obese but I am over weight. I had started P-90X like 6 times and get to like what I am seeing in the mirror then stop because I am satisfied then BOOM. I am fat again. It is totally 100% on me and I should know better. Now that I am 41 I have started P-90 again and will stick with it this time. I have to. Getting old sucks if you are over weight and I am tired of it. even when I was in great shape, US Army out if HS, the BMI said I was over weight because I am 5'6" and weight 200lbs but I could run 2 miles in less than 13 minutes and do over 50 push ups and sit ups in less than 2 minutes. Oh, the good old days. Ok. I will step down from the soap box now. Happy Easter everyone.

Somebody needs to take a stand against fat people. Hope others follow suit.

I wonder if other than very physically fit and toned, this hospital also has a certain breast size in women that it prefers?

Very large breasts are a hindrance to everyone but men and can really cause back issues and a drain on hospitals and insurance companies for these slothful women who simply refuse, out of ignorance and willful disregard for their health, to have breast reduction surgery.

Just for the women, mind you, I could see this particular hospital having a policy in place for women that they must be able to have a dime bounce at least once upon hitting their belly when dropped no more than 2 feet onto their belly, perhaps breasts no larger than a large C cup, and fairly wide hips.

Narrow hips can lead to an easily cracked pelvis bone when they are running around the hospital and stuff and knocking into door frames, etc...

I don't have an issue with what any private company wishes to do. But, they definitely should consider not hiring women with D cup breasts or larger becaus of the enormous costs to insurance companies for horrible back issues and because large breasts could prevent them from doing their job in an efficient manner.

Women with large breasts are often tired and weak and hurting. Well, this hospital certainly would not want that either. Perhaps they could simply put a question in the applications for jobs forms about breast size and a disclaimer that if you wear D sized cupped bras or larger, you know, apply elsewhere. Either that or force them to have a very routine and inexpensive breast reduction surgery that they could even insure themselves and help out the prospect employee witht he costs.

What they are shooting for is a uniform and efficient working staff who all resemble each other physically and do not deviate from what they consider to be the proper ideal for other humans.

Just a troll. No need to even attempt to argue or reason. Hopefully on of the mods see this and give that person a warning or something.

Oh really, a simple breast reduction surgery is out of line and outrageous to require of a prospective employee? I don't want very large breasted women working for me because they can't lift things, for one. They are also very often in immense pain and this leads to abuse of pain medication that develops quite frequently into serious addiction, etc...

Then, guess what? Guess who has to pay the insurance bills to get them off of pills and give them treatment, etc...? I do. Or, I just have to fire them and start all over and that costs a lot of money and investment also.

They are, overall, a drain on a company. Some tests need to be done to test their efficiency level in the same manner that tests have been done on fatties to determine if they are valid human beings who can be associated with other more normal human beings in a work environment.

I would bet good money that the very large brested women would be more of a hindrance than the fatties, financially. So, why not simply require them to have a reduction surgery in the same manner that fatties are told not to eat but a certain amount of food or they will be homeless and without a job.

Not much difference.

You would make a great politician. A natural filibuster-er.

I mean, you aren't even making good connections. You can change the fact you are overweight without any medical procedures(It may be difficult) and you cannot change the fact that you are unhappy with your looks without medical procedure. I am not gonna judge someones looks(beauty scale wise unless they are a woman and I want to date them).

So you are of the opinion that forcing someone to "naturally" modify their body is okay and acceptable. As long as you feel and have determined it's for their own medical good and have studies to back you up, you can legally make them suffer the consequences or get their minds right and do what you demand of them.

And that, somehow, is just totally not even related in any way to doing the same thing to other types of people and perhaps making them have minor surgery to achieve the same goal?

That's an odd rationalization.

As I say, studies need to be done on all types of situations people find themselves in so that we can determine if they meet standards of being pretty much flawless and extremely productive relative to your very hardest and dedicated worker.

This club-footed guy I used to work with could not walk as fast as other employees of the company but, he was a decent worker just the same. He was not poor and could have had his condition somewhat corrected if he had just come off a little bit of cash but, he didn't. If he had been threatened with losing his job because of it, I bet he would have.