copied from the comment i made here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/wexmonkey/187076.html?thread=671428#t671428):
this guy has the right to work wherever he wants to work...and if he is not being hired because he's overweight then he has every right to get pissed...because he's fat he has no rights to equal opportunity?...someone else posted about this on my friend's page today... []...look at the fat man who wants to work at mcdonald's...hahahahaha!!"...like there's *anyone* who should work at mcdonald's...
Yeah, I don't know. On the one hand, it does sound like they screwed him over by telling him that he was hired and then not letting him come to work. And his weight shouldn't have been an issue; I've seen a lot of obsese people working at fast-food places with no problem. So certainly McD's is at fault. I guess I just question why he's pursuing it two and a half years after the fact--and why he still wants to work there. But hey, I don't know his situation. Maybe for whatever reason he doesn't have any other options. It really is sad (and a bit bizarre).
I think the employer handled it wrong but had a "good" (?) reason:
have you ever seen the small amount of space between the wall and the grill at your standard mcdonalds? You can see it from the counter... Put a 420lb man there and theres not alot of room for alot else...
now....having said that....
The employer was wrong in the way they went about "firing" the guy. They wimped out, probably afraid of a lawsuit I'm assuming...They should have found him something else to do.
Yeah, I'm trying to picture what 420 pounds looks like. I worked w/ some pretty big folks back in my days at BK--but maybe not that big. Probably more on the order of 320. I think someone that big could probably manage. It wouldn't be much fun, but hell--it wouldn't be much fun anyway.
I know someone who is kickin in at 375. its horrible for them. She's having Gastric Bypass surgery next month. I feel bad for that guy at the McDonalds. People have different issues for being overweight, genetic or otherwise, but nobody should be discriminated against
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this guy has the right to work wherever he wants to work...and if he is not being hired because he's overweight then he has every right to get pissed...because he's fat he has no rights to equal opportunity?...someone else posted about this on my friend's page today... []...look at the fat man who wants to work at mcdonald's...hahahahaha!!"...like there's *anyone* who should work at mcdonald's...
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Petra*
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Date: 2003-04-17 11:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-17 12:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-17 12:20 pm (UTC)have you ever seen the small amount of space between the wall and the grill at your standard mcdonalds? You can see it from the counter... Put a 420lb man there and theres not alot of room for alot else...
now....having said that....
The employer was wrong in the way they went about "firing" the guy. They wimped out, probably afraid of a lawsuit I'm assuming...They should have found him something else to do.
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