Only 15% of hiring managers would consider hiring an overweight woman

Moneyish ^ | Dec. 9, 2017 | Reed Alexander

[sparklite2]

Obeserious!

[JimRed]

5’11”, 525? In a day care? Suppose she fell on one of the kids? And could she move fast enough to protect a little one from some imminent anger?

[beergarden]

Right after college, I worked for a logistics company near the airport part time. MOST the girls were either hot and or below 25. Mostly blonds. Every day the other companies employees beside us were always asking me if there were openings. There were only 2 other not hot women but they kept to themselves.

[ichabod1]

They use a five hundred and twenty five pound woman as an example of weight discrimination in employment? Gimme a break.

[ichabod1]

What if you’re a 525 lb woman and you wannabe a Navy Seal?

[ichabod1]

But’choo can’t not hire a woman!

[Ingtar]

All they have to do is cut down.

I am the oddball exception who gains weight on severe diets. Doctors are still trying to figure me out.

[grey_whiskers]

Has she considered sumo wrestling, since we are told by the usual suspects that women can do everything a man can do?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Nothing is the article about costs related to hiring morbidly obese people. Insurance costs, days missed, new chairs....

[real saxophonist]

Wow. I’m 5’11” and 180. I couldn’t imagine weighing 525.

[Seruzawa]

I know people who have weight problems who do not overeat and who exercise like fiends. Calling them nasty names is just cruel.

[doorgunner69]

[Two Kids' Dad]

Her BMI is/was 73.2. Obese starts at 30.

[gdani]

525 lbs is far more than just “overweight”. If employers were not hiring merely overweight people almost nobody would have a job in this country.

[EagleUSA]

“...Owens, who was 525 pounds at 5’11” at the time of her interview....”

Well, they do have to fit through the front door....

[Redcitizen]

That guy in the middle looks like Jeb Bush.

[I Drive Too Fast]

Might be too big for a seal. Do they have a Navy Walrus program?

[Mears]

I have always been skinny,and HAD children——would I be a good manager?

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[technically right]

At five and a quarter I’ll bet she would have trouble just getting through the doorways.

[bagster]

I’d be afraid she’d eat the kids.