Anyone else feel discriminated against at work because they're fit?

[Anonymous]

This must be OP's first troll attempt. It's just really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's also very noticeable, because teams will often want to go out after work to happy hours and other social functions. Those functions often involve booze, crappy junk bar and finger foods, and just totally unnecessary calorie intake overall. Someone trying to maintain their fitness levels will skip those events. But then teammates hold it against them for 'not being team players' simply because a person doesn't want to constantly surround themselves with booze and garbage foods.

Why not just go and have a seltzer? That way you’re being sociable and sticking to your nutritional standards.

Yeahhhhh.....let me waste 2.5 hours with my team after work all so I can sit around and drink seltzer a skip all of the trash food like sliders, wings, and fries. No thanks. I have a workout to do rather than waste my time getting obese and ruining my liver.

Seltzer water ruins your liver? OP you sound like an incredibly miserable person.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t tell is OP is a man or woman.

I have never noticed men treating other men poorly bc they are in shape.

But women, absolutely. If you are an attractive and fit woman, chances are high at some point some older, overweight, frumpy woman (or women) have been rude or out right mean to you at work- for no obvious other reason

Yup.

+1000

How dare you be fit and attractive. Other women will want to put their jealous claws in you to try to bring you down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t tell is OP is a man or woman.

I have never noticed men treating other men poorly bc they are in shape.

But women, absolutely. If you are an attractive and fit woman, chances are high at some point some older, overweight, frumpy woman (or women) have been rude or out right mean to you at work- for no obvious other reason

Yup.

+1000

How dare you be fit and attractive. Other women will want to put their jealous claws in you to try to bring you down.

Again with the "women are catty and jealous". It's not cute to mansplain or put down women, dude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha, I know this is a troll but I still kind of see this...
At work one coworker always calls me by the wrong name and when I gently correct her she has said "You skinny girls all look the same to me, sorry." I'm not remotely skinny (5'3", between 125 and 130) but thanks?

You should have a real comeback ready the next time this happens. Something funny and self-confident. This person will respect you and stop calling you the wrong name.

Looking good is the best revenge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This happens to me, always working women of a lower class. I am very fit, thin, blonde, married young, have successful husband and never had to work. When they find out, they generally go "So what do you DO?", as if managing my family, our households and staff, pets, schedules, and of course my own fitness and interests is nothing.

Never change, DCUM. I love this content

It’s a parody right? Right?

[Anonymous]

This is the dumbest troll poll I've read on here. Nice try, OP. It's super obvious that this is fake.

[Anonymous]

It’s because if you are fit and healthy it means you must not be working hard enough. We are going to need you to stay chained to your desk later at work so you can’t have that body anymore. This is capitalism, we own your body and soul.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s because if you are fit and healthy it means you must not be working hard enough. We are going to need you to stay chained to your desk later at work so you can’t have that body anymore. This is capitalism, we own your body and soul.

Even though the OP is likely fake, what you post here is an attitude we see on these forums all the time. If you spend more than an hour on yourself every day you aren’t working hard enough or not focused on your family and kids appropriately. It’s like clockwork those comments.

[Anonymous]

The fit man's burden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know what it is, but a lot of my coworkers seem nasty towards me or constantly give me churlish attitudes over simple things. I am not a talkative person and am quite introverted. I mind my own business 99.9% of the time and simply go about doing my work. The only thing I can think of is that they're angry at the fact that I'm very fit. You can absolutely tell. When I wear a short sleeved shirt you can see all of my vascularity, and for lack for better terms - my shredded arms. I am very trim and have nice shapely legs and a sculpted derriere because I do tons of leg workouts. My body fat % is below 13%.

Is it just a thing this day in age to discriminate against fit people given that the majority of adults and coworkers are now overweight or obese? Half of it too could be the negative mindset and low self-esteem many people have that has reuslted in their obesity in the first place, which they try to dump onto other people around them.

Fit shaming at work feels like it is getting more and more out of hand as the population gets more overweight.

No, people don't think about you anywhere nearly as much as you think they do. This is 100% in your head.

[Anonymous]

Yes. This is in your head. I am fat and I don’t spend any time worrying about other people’s weight. I do, however, spend a lot of time worrying about my colleagues who get me work late or whose work is not well done, costing me time and energy for my own work. Those people I will be catty to. Maybe you are just not that good at your job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s because if you are fit and healthy it means you must not be working hard enough. We are going to need you to stay chained to your desk later at work so you can’t have that body anymore. This is capitalism, we own your body and soul.

Even though the OP is likely fake, what you post here is an attitude we see on these forums all the time. If you spend more than an hour on yourself every day you aren’t working hard enough or not focused on your family and kids appropriately. It’s like clockwork those comments.

I have seen that attitude at play in other contexts, and I've posted about it. When I worked at a couple DC biglaw firms I saw that play out with people who spent time on their appearance, with the idea that people who spent time on looking put together weren't putting enough time in work, weren't serious, etc. It's one of the few places where I think the correlation went in that direction. Usually fit, well-put together people get the benefit of the doubt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s because if you are fit and healthy it means you must not be working hard enough. We are going to need you to stay chained to your desk later at work so you can’t have that body anymore. This is capitalism, we own your body and soul.

Even though the OP is likely fake, what you post here is an attitude we see on these forums all the time. If you spend more than an hour on yourself every day you aren’t working hard enough or not focused on your family and kids appropriately. It’s like clockwork those comments.

I have seen that attitude at play in other contexts, and I've posted about it. When I worked at a couple DC biglaw firms I saw that play out with people who spent time on their appearance, with the idea that people who spent time on looking put together weren't putting enough time in work, weren't serious, etc. It's one of the few places where I think the correlation went in that direction. Usually fit, well-put together people get the benefit of the doubt.

People who make time to look put together and look attractive generally do better at work. There are literally studies about this. No one is discriminating against good looking people. GTFOH