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All semantic BS. I would bet that the supervisor was not calling her fat or trying to insult the OP. My strong guess is that it was much more about health - physical and mental. Situations are different so we can't say if it was apprpriate or not but it was likely not coming from a bad place.
And regardless if the OP was hurt by it, which I feel bad about, it is still likely that the supervisor's intentions were good. I am not taking sides against the OP, just stating what is reasonbley true.
I think it depends on the relationship with the employee, but it does border on inappropriate. However, if anyone thinks for a second that their employer isn't gauging the health of their employees and making decisions based on that, they're fooling themselves.
Welcome to employer-sponsored healthcare, folks! If you're an elevated risk to their health plan, you better believe you're on their radar.
Yes sir! The biggest deterrent to going to the doctor is what people put into their mouth. Heart disease is still number one.
OP, are you in your 50's? This is when I have seen co-workers falling off due to bad health habits. 3 in the last 3 years
Weight has lots of things to do with the job performance. If you are overweight, you will walk slower, and your job will be done slower. I'm talking from my own experience from working with a couple of office co-workers. We do office work, but we have duties to do labor work also such as dividing and delivering supplies to the units (in a care centre). And on our job, we need to walk around a lot to see and talk to the residents. Everybody in every department, from management to lower levels, has to do some physical work. If somebody makes excuses about his/her health issues (mental or physical) and just wants to sit at the desk everyday, and wants not to do heavy work, others may not speak it out loud (because they can't), but they give that person a look, or think in their head that that person is a lazy butt.
I hate working with somebody who talks too much and bribes the management and makes excuses that she has physical or mental health issues and cannot do heavy work and expects everybody to take her slacks. Imagine if you have to work with somebody like that, you will have to take lots of work/weight from her/him. You will be stressed and burnt out sooner or later. If the company has a few like that, eventually, the company will have dozens of such. That is crazy.
To exercise more, walk around a lot at least, eat healthy food, not fat or fast food, don't eat so much, and have self-discipline can help you a lot to have good health and not to be so overweight.
Working 6 days/week for a long time would affect most people in a negative way. I would guess that the supervisor was trying to help by suggesting weight loss programs so I would try not to be upset or embarrassed.
We all need to take care of ourselves physically and mentally as best we can.
post 48 condones the behavior of a supervisor commenting on the body of an employee.
That's a poster's "guess" as to what the supervisor said. The OP says he never commented on her weight directly.
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