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Do I even need to comment?
Aug. 7th, 2007 12:21 amEw. Just ew. Seriously, this makes fumes come out of my head.
And I love that being fat is the most expensive "offense", not to mention that the dipshits who wrote the article don't even know what the BMI is. Yes, it is a ratio of height to weight but it is in no way, shape or form a measure of one's body fat. It is a useless measure of anything other than someone's ability to calculate a ratio using two numbers.
And let me say this...the day an employer thinks it is their fucking business what my weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose levels or smoking status is, is the day that I no longer work for said employer. Think I'm overreacting? Think again. Once this is allowed you know employers will be looking for ways to charge for "risky" sexual activity (e.g., having sex with men who have sex with men--because who wants to pay for all those pesky Hep B vaccines and STD tests anyhow?), women who are of childbearing age (we only fairly recently got the fuckers to cover birth control on our insurance plans, kind of, let's see how long that lasts) or any number of things which are none of my employer's fucking business. And this "health" information they are collecting? Trust me--it will be used in some way or another to discriminate against certain employees above and beyond just docking their pay each week. I have seen countless illegal and unethical acts executed by all levels of management in my day and giving them more ammunition and allowing them to prod further into our personal lives is NEVER a good thing. Period. End of story.
And I love that being fat is the most expensive "offense", not to mention that the dipshits who wrote the article don't even know what the BMI is. Yes, it is a ratio of height to weight but it is in no way, shape or form a measure of one's body fat. It is a useless measure of anything other than someone's ability to calculate a ratio using two numbers.
And let me say this...the day an employer thinks it is their fucking business what my weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose levels or smoking status is, is the day that I no longer work for said employer. Think I'm overreacting? Think again. Once this is allowed you know employers will be looking for ways to charge for "risky" sexual activity (e.g., having sex with men who have sex with men--because who wants to pay for all those pesky Hep B vaccines and STD tests anyhow?), women who are of childbearing age (we only fairly recently got the fuckers to cover birth control on our insurance plans, kind of, let's see how long that lasts) or any number of things which are none of my employer's fucking business. And this "health" information they are collecting? Trust me--it will be used in some way or another to discriminate against certain employees above and beyond just docking their pay each week. I have seen countless illegal and unethical acts executed by all levels of management in my day and giving them more ammunition and allowing them to prod further into our personal lives is NEVER a good thing. Period. End of story.
