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[quote=Anonymous]What size companies is he interviewing at? My sister owns a small business, and her assistant/admin was obese. She was a great admin, but they had a heck of a time finding an insurance policy to cover her. Obviously that difficulty didn't stop my sister from hiring her, but I could see it being a deterrent for a smaller employer.

DH has an employee who was morbidly obese in a job that requires a PhD but isn't totally a desk job. It did create a problem when he was more junior, because there were a few physical things related to running experiments in their lab that he really couldn't do...and as a junior engineer he was expected to be able to do them. He is a good enough engineer, though he's got other career-limiting quirks that are unrelated to his weight, that they worked around the issues. But it can be a hassle if there is even 5% work that isn't at a desk and a person's obesity limits them from doing that work. In this case, the person has had to lose a fair amount of weight for health reasons.[/quote]

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