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  Netwit10 months ago

  I hope Scott Rodrigues sues that company and wins! Heck! People get fired for being overweight! I mean WTF! I mean let people be people! If a person is going to be judged, let it be based on they're performance, not on they're personal habits or appearance.

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    johnb300m10 months ago

    I mostly agree with you, but would you hire someone who was 500lbs, never bathed and was on disability leave every other week?

    Call me whatever you want, but I would not hire that person.

    It's not fair, but there are many undesirables out there. It's not anybody's fault, but that's just how it is.

    I agree, some people are fired for very wrong reasons, but if you have someone whose simple existence is going to be a major distraction...what do you do? You have to do something, because you know those people are out there.

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      Netwit10 months ago

      "but would you hire someone who was 500lbs, never bathed and was on disability leave every other week?"

      Gee, are there a lot of those where you're at? & people would generally have better common sense than that in terms of hiring somebody like you've described...give people credit dude.

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        johnb300m10 months ago

        Ha, of course there are not alot of those people near me.

        But there ARE people like that who do exist. I HAVE seen, and smelled them (hard to avoid).

        But what about the outliers in our bell curve of society?

        That's who I'm talking about. Because those past 3 sigma are the ones exploited, and then make all the noise.

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  KYRed10 months ago

  I know a young lady who was fired for speaking with a southern accent. Hell, we are in Kentucky for pete's sake. The bosses were Yankees.

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    jumpmaster10 months ago

    Was George Steinbrenner the CEO?

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  jumpmaster10 months ago

  This will tie into Hillary's socialized medicine program. Pretty soon everyone will get a microchip implanted so we can keep track of everyone, everywhere, all the time.

  It is for the greater good, you know.

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  johnb300m10 months ago

  "A spokeswoman for Scotts was unable to give details about the test given to Rodrigues or to comment on his case, only saying it was part of a company policy to promote a healthy lifestyle among its workers."

  This is just simple discrimination.

  Everywhere in IL, towns are passing No Smoking laws in restaurants/bars. Well...it's dumb, but OK. I appreciate the smokeless atmosphere, but the smokers should still have the right to go outside the bar and light up.

  NOW, there's towns passing laws where even if you're seen smoking outside, you get a ticket.

  This is too much.

  Why won't big brother just let us do what we want to do?

  Mean old brother!

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