While employers are falling over themselves to prove how flexible they are these days, Guru has always taken the view that working from home is, indeed, a licence to shirk from home.

It seems the ultimate job for home shirkers has now been created. A company wants to recruit a couch potato to eat 400 extra calories every day to test the fat-binding properties of a weight loss product - and pay them almost £24k a year.

The job advert, which has already gone up in UK Jobcentres, reads: "We know it's incredible, but it's true.

"We are willing to pay you £23,750 a year to continue doing exactly what you do every single day, and all we ask in return is that you eat 16% more calories a week - or 400 more calories a day - whilst introducing Proactol into your diet.

"The ideal candidate should not already be on a diet but eat a healthy balance of carbohydrates, fats and proteins and be prepared to increase their existing calorie intake by eating fatty foods such as Chinese takeaways, fish and chips, pizza or McDonald's."

Lazy obese types will no doubt be waddling towards their nearest Jobcentre in their droves.

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