September 3, 2009
The Daily Mail is carrying a brilliant story about bus drivers in Hull being told to lose weight to stop breaking their seats.
The doughy drivers have been sent letters by their employer Stagecoach asking drivers who think they exceed the weight limit of 20 stone for some buses and 23 stone for others to seek out their manager, who will refer them to the company's occupational health adviser.
One driver told the paper: "'I think it is disgusting. It is certainly discrimination." Yes, Guru thinks it's our old friend fattism where employers pick on the lardy individuals in the workplace.
Guru reckons if you really are fat enough to be breaking seats then the time has come to shed some flab. And no, they're not just big boned...
The doughy drivers have been sent letters by their employer Stagecoach asking drivers who think they exceed the weight limit of 20 stone for some buses and 23 stone for others to seek out their manager, who will refer them to the company's occupational health adviser.
One driver told the paper: "'I think it is disgusting. It is certainly discrimination." Yes, Guru thinks it's our old friend fattism where employers pick on the lardy individuals in the workplace.
Guru reckons if you really are fat enough to be breaking seats then the time has come to shed some flab. And no, they're not just big boned...
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