A couple of months ago, someone in my company decided to get a Weight Watchers group together: “If we can sign up 20 people at $156 each, we can start meeting every Thursday at 1:00.” We eventually got 20 people—and so far, less than half of us have coughed up the cash. The Weight Watchers people are not going to show up out of the goodness of their hearts, so those of us who have paid have to sit on our fat asses waiting for those other fat asses to come through with the money they promised.
I suggest public humiliation (which is so much a part of Weight Watchers, anyway). Wait till these people are in a meeting, walk in and loudly say, “Oh—you’re still a huge lard-ass! I figured since you refuse to pay up, you’d lost all that weight!” Or, “Ah, I see why you can’t get to that $156—your pockets are too tightly compressed against your massive thighs!”
Just out of curiosity, what part of Weight Watchers do you consider public humiliation?
I work for WW, and it’s pretty much my prime directive to keep anything embarrassing (like your actual weight or the fact that you might have gained this week) confidential between me and the person I’m weighing.
Well, since they are weekly group meetings (or were to be), I assume it’ll be pretty obvious who’s losing weight and who’s not. I am, by the way, fully in favor of public humiliation as an incentive tool.
Well, I weigh 120 kgs., and my company doesn’t have a WW program, $156 or not.
How much do you weigh, Eve?
And are you somehow hidden from the view of others if you don’t belong to a WW program? And so nobody could tell whether you had lost or gained during the past week if you hadn’t shelled out the cash?
Can’t you lose weight on your own without having a group of people hand over $3,120 to WW?
I have no idea what your point is. But my point is: “Don’t agree to pay $156 and then screw over your coworkers by cheaping out on us, so those of us who have paid get cheated out of the Weight Watchers program we wanted to join, you cheap, lying bastards!”
Do you even happen to be aware of just how many chocolate-covered donuts $156 will buy, you selfish supposedly unhappy-about-being-overweight person, you?
If I weren’t well-raised and a lady, I would ask you what the fuck kind of “totally missing the point of the OP” stick is up your asshole, you brain-dead little piss-ant.
But, fortunately, I am too well-bred to ask such questions.
See, gm, a group of people agreed to pay a certain amount of money. In exchange for this, they would all benefit from a program brought to their workplace.
Let’s try a different example. Say you and 19 co-workers decided to form a coffee-drinkers club at your office. Each month, you’d pay $156. In exchange, you’d have a coffee service come in and provide you with the best coffee money can buy – as much as you want, every day of the month.
You all agreed to this. You all committed to this. You wrote a check. A couple of your friends wrote a check. Nobody else has written a check.
Now, you’re out $156. You still have no coffee. Yes, you’ll get your money back, if nobody else pays up. You’ll also lose all that time you spent organizing the coffee-drinkers club. You’ll also be forced to think, every day, about the wonderful coffee you could be drinking, instead of the swill that serves as coffee in the breakroom. You’ll also be forced to realize that your co-workers can’t be trusted any further than you could sling a pregnant piano.
So, in that light, this rant isn’t about losing weight. It’s about people giving their word and a financial commitment, and then failing to keep either.
Geez, talk about an appropriate name, gluteus maximus: you’re really being an ass.
You obviously have some issues with Weight Watchers. Why you chose to take them out on Eve (who is hands down one of the most well-respected and classiest posters on this board) is beyond me.
I have a feeling this thread will turn out badly for you. You may wanna lay low for a while (read The Onion archives or Fark or something).
Is this a picture of you? Do you need to lose much weight?
I’d say hit the gym four days a week fairly hard, and drink only water. That is a good way to trim up to a pound a week if you do it right.
How aggressive was this person that organised the group? Having been subjected to some obnoxious Weight Watchers types at work who wouldn’t take “NO!” for an answer, I can see how they might have said they’d join just to get someone off their back, when really they had no interest or intention to do it. Why not just start the group with the people who have paid?
Or, if you need 20 people for Weight Watchers to come, why not just start your own weight loss support group with the 10 people who apparently want such a thing, and save yourselves the money? Why pay Weight Watchers all that money for information you can get for free?
Kinda a naive thing to think 20 people will do something like that. Hell, churches can’t get people to live up to pledge cards. People say ok to get you to quit asking them to join. Shoulda figured on a significant percentage of no-shows and recruited many more people. Get disappointed a lot?
