FAT SICK
Now that being overweight is being listed as a disease, a person can call in fat-sick any day of the week - even on holidays , if you can think of some little twist to make such an action pay off in hard cash.
There's no doubt remaining about overweight being a common cause of time-off requests. Fat folks find it more difficult to keep up with with common office and plant routines without a great deal of huffing and puffing when moving about, even in ergonomic Edens designed and budget built with delicate wire, glass and soft metal or plastics. Modern work-place furnishings are designed by skinny workers for other small-seated persons. Only on rare occasions does one meet with the grandiose executive easy chairs once so common. One reason for the seeming disuse has been the rise of a secondary level of control in most industrial plants which determines how executives should be fed, exercised, properly supplemented with precisely the correct combination of vitamins and supplements in whatever combinations are in style with magazine editors or publishers at the given moment.
There was a time when the average citizen might turn with some logic involved, to his family doctor for an opinion concerning his body weight by today an editor, publisher or an Internet guru might be more easily accredited concerning such important matters.
A common sense crisis exists.
If millions of fat people should take to bed rest to cure their illness, we are at a impasse where deep trouble prevails: Who will wait on the rest of us? The waitress who brings your meal is fat. The attendant who supervises your purchase of fat priced gasoline for your fat-featured car, and so is the sales person who huffs and puff taking a pair of shoes from a shelf for you to try on while they watch to give instant approval. There seems to be no faster way to achieve weight gains than by standing or sitting behind a cash register all day or night. Notice how many car divers who pass you are fat. Go on, try again. Turn your head just a bit more. Now you can see them.
Never have we had such opportunity for home remedies to prove themselves.
A.L.M. January 29, 2005 [c388wds]
