Have you ever seen a fat fast food worker?

[I'm_Tired]

One of the biggest mystery for me is that fast food chains are catered to mostly fat people yet I have never seen a fat worker.

It’s always the healthy and good looking workers especially the ones serving at the front counter and those that hands meals to cars in drive thru’s. Same in commercials.

Is there a secret rule that allows them
to discriminate fat people by not allowing them to work?

[Faster With Feeling]

Come to Australia plenty of heffers working at McDonald's or Hungry Jacks (Burger King) over here

[s w e k]

Publicado originalmente por Vault Hunter 101:

Drug dealers never take the drugs they sell

"Never get high on your own supply"

[zeke]

Publicado originalmente por Chalupabaras:

For most people, obesity is a choice. Too many people choose what's easy, instead of what's best for them. If more people learned to cook, you'd see a lot less obese people.

Eat responsibly.

And I completely agree with you there, but - again, in case you missed it - the problem is that the metrics we are using to define obesity aren't a reliable set of metrics.

[Yarr]

I used to reduce the amount I eat in order to gain weight. Can someone explain how that would work?

(i'll explain later if noone else does)

[KOJAKK]

Yes. They eat fast food for lunch at the very minimum almost everyday. They’re gonna be out of shape at the least

[RRW359]

I think I have but they probably do screen out them as much as possible for front-facing jobs. Also depending on where you live minimum wage may not be enough for someone to eat fast food all the time, not to mention the fear of the possible medical bills resulting from being overweight. Plus being on your feet all day burns calories.

[S73v3NH4wk1n9]

I can't bring myself to eat food that is freshly prepared by strangers.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Publicado originalmente por Fake:

I can honestly say that I have never seen an overweight employee at In-N-Out. And I go to multiple stores.

Other chains, yes, there are overweight workers.

I was just about to mention the same thing.

But tons of them (heh heh) at McDonalds and pizza places and definitely at Arby's.

[Auckes]

Yes! In my favorite fast food place, there is a fat girl with a cute face, a sexy set of boo bies and a legendary a$$, which i would love to takeaway, instead of the food.

Deliverymen are also fat, most of the times.

I like fat people, even if i am not fat myself!

[RRW359]

Publicado originalmente por Eld3r:

Publicado originalmente por RRW359:

I think I have but they probably do screen out them as much as possible for front-facing jobs. Also depending on where you live minimum wage may not be enough for someone to eat fast food all the time, not to mention the fear of the possible medical bills resulting from being overweight. Plus being on your feet all day burns calories.

you have no real life experience?

sorry for arguing with you in previous threads

had i known you have no experience i would have given you a pass

wow

So knowing that minimum wage varies in the US and not paying much attention to the size if FF workers means I have no life experience? MW us reletively liveable where I live but people often complain that having it higher/lower reduces QoL (I won't go into which I think since you can probably guess whichever side of the wage debate I'm on and wheather you think raising it causes inflation or makes lives better the fact that it varies means that not all are as liveable as others). Also I forgot to mention that getting a drivers license isn't easy if you are an adult and are working 40 hours/week on an unpredictable schedule (something I do have life experience about) and in the US not driving means walking is a lot harder and burns more calories then it normally would (which is why more people have cars).

[zeke]

Publicado originalmente por Eld3r:

Publicado originalmente por zeke:

And I completely agree with you there, but - again, in case you missed it - the problem is that the metrics we are using to define obesity aren't a reliable set of metrics.

wait

are you saying that what most of us know is killing too many people is not statistically accurate?

edit to say i read you previous post and i know that for some bmi does not work

but it is still a decent general model

Except that it really isn't a decent general model. Re-read this passage from The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism:

"However, large-scale studies have shown that increased body mass index (BMI; weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) was not associated with increased mortality. In fact, overweight subjects (BMI, 25–29.9 kg/m2) survive longer than normal-weight subjects, and only persons with severe obesity, defined as BMI of at least 35 kg/m2, are at increased risk of early death."

Does that sound like a 'decent general model' to you?

These are results that have been found in study after study. BMI, as it is currently defined and used, really is borderline junk science. Part of the key here is to understand that BMI was a standard that was created and adopted before there was, by-and-large, any rigorous scientific research into these issues - before scientifically backed methods of assessing a person's health were created. BMI sticks around simply because it has been used for decades, not because BMI provides an accurate methodology for assessing an individual's health or even the health of a group of people.

[zeke]

Publicado originalmente por Eld3r:

all i have to do is look around to realize there is a problem with weight

is that reasonable from your point of view?

I find that perfectly reasonable *[side-note below], and I would point out I previously stated "Without a doubt, obesity is a public health issue".

My point was never that weight is not a health issue nor that it is not an issue of significant concern from a public health standpoint. My point is simply that BMI and any statistics derived from BMI are not reliable data sets.

*As a fun little side note, I've actually seen a researcher who scientifically compared people's personal assessments of a person's health status based upon casual visual observations of a person's weight vs BMI's assessment of health status and the researcher found that the casual observations were a better predictor of negative health outcomes than BMI is (though, I'm not sure that researcher's sample size was large enough in their comparison for statistical significance).

[zeke]

Publicado originalmente por Eld3r:

if you honestly think that weight is not an issue with health, we are done here

Eld3r, I'm sorry but you really need to read a bit more carefully. I'll state, using the exact same words, for a third time here: "Without a doubt, obesity is a public health issue" and for the second time "My point was never that weight is not a health issue"

You seem to have somehow missed those statements.

[temps]

Publicado originalmente por Rumpelcrutchskin:

If you are rich enough to be fat then you don`t need to work in a place like that.

Being fat in the US is actually more common among the poor than among the rich.

The rich are eating kale salads with blueberries and stuff like that at Whole Foods. Healthy food relatively high in nutrients and low in calories. Also relatively expensive in terms of price per calorie.

Stuff like McDonald's is for middle class and poor people.

And when I say "rich" I mean pretty high income, not "rich" like Bill Gates.

[I'm_Tired]

Publicado originalmente por Eld3r:

1/3 of the US population is overweight

of course I have seen overweight people working in fast food and everywhere else

Woops, sorry my bad guys. I totally forgot about that so I guess it all depends where you live.