Fat and Employment

A couple of recent surveys have found that fat people will be overlooked for a position rather than a thin person with the same qualifications. Overweight people have had anecdotal evidence of this for years. This article looks at the social attitudes behind this phenomenon, another article reports that Wal- mart is "not going to employ fat people". If you look more closely at the information that it is actually reporting, what they are really getting at is making their floor staff do more physical work so they are not sedentary. While they are trying to cover their butts by creating a fitter work force, I don't believe that they are trying to "weed out the fat as the article would have us believe.