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Re: Can Your Weight Keep You From Getting a Job?

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  1. [email hidden] (Violet Green) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Can Your Weight Keep You From Getting a Job?

    Well, let's face it, if you're interviewing people for a position, and
    a 450lb elephant walks in the door, smelling of faeces, you're not
    going to be all that enthusiastic about working with them. You want to
    be working with motivated, hard-working people, not lazy people with
    no self-respect.


  2. Quoted message said:

    [email hidden] (Violet Green) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Can Your Weight Keep You From Getting a Job?

    I work in a deli department in a grocery store. Several years ago, a
    very overweight guy in the customer service department wanted to be in
    the deli. He signed up several times when we had openings.

    To be honest, none of us wanted him in the department. He was a really
    nice guy and a hard worker. But our walkways are small. When we pass
    each other, we have to turn sideways and sometimes suck it in. It
    would be really hard to have somebody who is over 300lbs easily.

    They finally accepted him and scheduled him in the deli. He finished
    teh first shift complaining about his back hurting, and made it
    through only 2 hours of the second shift, before being transferred
    back to customer service. It was just too hard for him in his physical
    condition.

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  3. The Voice of Reason said:

    [email hidden] (Violet Green) wrote in message


    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Can Your Weight Keep You From Getting a Job?

    Well, let's face it, if you're interviewing people for a position,


    and

    Quoted message said:

    a 450lb elephant walks in the door, smelling of faeces,

    Yeah lets face it, 450lbs for an elephant? That's an awfully skinny
    elephant. Also what is this "smelling of faeces" stuff? Do you mean
    faces? Or do you just mean [censored]? In which case that's usually a
    European thing.

    Ragnar

  4. In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    [email hidden] (Violet Green) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Can Your Weight Keep You From Getting a Job?

    I work in a deli department in a grocery store. Several years ago, a
    very overweight guy in the customer service department wanted to be in
    the deli. He signed up several times when we had openings.

    To be honest, none of us wanted him in the department. He was a really
    nice guy and a hard worker. But our walkways are small. When we pass
    each other, we have to turn sideways and sometimes suck it in. It
    would be really hard to have somebody who is over 300lbs easily.

    They finally accepted him and scheduled him in the deli. He finished
    teh first shift complaining about his back hurting, and made it
    through only 2 hours of the second shift, before being transferred
    back to customer service. It was just too hard for him in his physical
    condition.

    No, it wasn't! It MUST have been YOUR bigotryyyyyy!

    You big, bad, nasty, high-weight-propotionate
    Opressorrrrr!

    That guy was Opressed! And abused! Poor him! Poor
    him!

    Don't you feel so guilty? (You are mean, nasty, bad
    person if you don't.)

    My gawd! Next, you will be suggesting that some job
    description listing of, "Must be able to lift 10kgs (22
    lbs)" might just mean it! Oooooh, the nasty
    discimination!!!!!

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  5. On 23 Mar 2005 06:46:07 -0800, "Ragnar" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:


    Yeah lets face it, 450lbs for an elephant? That's an awfully skinny
    elephant. Also what is this "smelling of faeces" stuff? Do you mean
    faces? Or do you just mean [censored]? In which case that's usually a
    European thing.

    I believe the person meant feces ([censored]). I haven't had any coworkers
    like that, but I have had a few customers. I remember one who came in
    every day, broke two of our riding scooters, and he reeked horribly.
    They had to clean the cart after he used it. And one of the courtesy
    clerks saw him once when his shirt didn't cover him all the way. He
    did have dried feces on his back. He was probably over 400lbs, could
    barely walk, and probably cannot bathe himself without help.

    He was finally caught shoplifting and banned from the store.

    --
    Meghan & the Zoo Crew
    Equine and Pet Photography
    http://www.zoocrewphoto.com

  6. "Meghan Noecker" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    On 23 Mar 2005 06:46:07 -0800, "Ragnar" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:


    Yeah lets face it, 450lbs for an elephant? That's an awfully skinny
    elephant. Also what is this "smelling of faeces" stuff? Do you mean
    faces? Or do you just mean [censored]? In which case that's usually a
    European thing.

    I believe the person meant feces ([censored]).


    <snip>
    (Ok, let's see if I can muddy the waters here.. hehe.)
    Actually, I believe he did mean 'faeces'. "ae" is the spelling for Greek,
    but 'Latinized' words, that in the original Greek, were written with the
    Greek diphthong Alpha Iota, which was, (and still is), pronounced as a long
    e sound.
    But.. since people don't come to newsgroups to learn.. this concludes
    today's lesson, boys and girls!
    lucy 🙂

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