# Can my employer hire anybody other than cackling hens with HUGE ASSES? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-my-employer-hire-anybody-other-than-cackling-hens-with-huge-asses/235301 "2004-03-19T22:34:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-my-employer-hire-anybody-other-than-cackling-hens-with-huge-asses/235301/101 "2004-03-29T05:47:48Z")
> [@MaddyStrut](#): > > I did find the OP to be written in a rather, well, inflammatory manner. > > However, I must agree that I am sick and tired of hearing 15 minutes of discussion about eating a damn cookie. At my office, it doesn’t matter if the cookie eater is fat, thin, or average. If there’s a tray of cookies in the office, it’s mandatory to have 15 minutes of rationalization or self-flaggellation before eating the freaking cookie. > > It’s just a cookie! Eat it or don’t eat it. I couldn’t care less. Just don’t talk about it for 15 minutes like you’re rationalizing sleeping with your best friend’s spouse or stealing the petty cash! > > Usually, the cookie conversations annoy me. However, when I’m feeling more empathetic, I think how sad that the simple act of eating a cookie is so tied up with feelings of guilt, shame, and who knows what else that all this discussion is neccessary. > > And (as I said earlier) at least in my office, the skinny people do it too. Now THIS is an intelligent, non-hateful, non-blaming fat people for everything, way of putting the OP’s gripe. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-my-employer-hire-anybody-other-than-cackling-hens-with-huge-asses/235301/102 "2004-03-29T14:47:15Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > This thread is dumb. > > The OP is dumb. Well, the thread did start out poorly, but it has exceeded all expectations and has actually become interesting. Anyway, there are several posters who have made arguments about how they truly have NO time to squeeze in exercise. They have busy lives, and just can’t do it. Individual circumstances vary of course, but people in countries other than the U.S. also have very busy lives … but they stay – on average – much more trim than Americans. Why is that? It’s food for thought, mobsters! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-my-employer-hire-anybody-other-than-cackling-hens-with-huge-asses/235301/103 "2004-03-29T15:09:14Z")
Am I the only one who, on reading the thread title, thought it would make a fine _Far Side_ cartoon caption? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-my-employer-hire-anybody-other-than-cackling-hens-with-huge-asses/235301/104 "2004-03-29T15:09:39Z")
> [@zahara2](#): > > Just a quick thought…try walking up the stairs to your office if its a high rise. if its 24 floors just try walking up the first 6 and take the elevator. after a couple of weeks increase by a floor. i’m amazed at people who take the elevator to the second floor. just an idea. Perhaps your high rise is different, but in my office building you can’t take the stairs; they can be used only for evacuating in an emergency. It’s a good idea if you can take the stairs but many buildings won’t allow you to. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-my-employer-hire-anybody-other-than-cackling-hens-with-huge-asses/235301/105 "2004-03-29T15:27:35Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Anyway, there are several posters who have made arguments about how they truly have NO time to **squeeze in** exercise. (bolding added) Hah, another subtle anti-obesity slur. Shoulda said “no time to fit in exercise”. Um, better make it “no time for exercise”. The argument is basically still a crock, though. And I know as well as anybody. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-my-employer-hire-anybody-other-than-cackling-hens-with-huge-asses/235301.md?page=5)