I find it amazing and I praise the guy for trying to get a job....any job. But I agree with McDonalds here........

My husbands uncle weighed 480lbs. at the time of his death....and was housebound for 2 years prior to succombing to obesity. He was one of those peple that you see on talk shows, in that, upon his death the fire company had to extend the rescue ladder into a basement egress window in order to remove his body because he was too large to get up the stairs. He never tried to get out of that basement for the last two years of his life.

It is rather ironic (and coincidental) that this person in question would choose to work at a place that would indeed feed his addiction. I hate that lawyers try, and judges entertain, lawsuits such as this. A company has a right to protect itself, and yet there are personal traits in people that a company cannot discriminate against. This is the typical "rock and hard place".

If they hired him, and he couldn't perform his duties and yet insisted on staying.......he would indeed file a suit, if fired. He'd have Mickey D's by the balls.....and still does, even now. Just the mere fact that this man walked through the door and filled out an application, was the start of something big (pardon the pun).

I know obesity is an addiction....I do not discriminate against large people.......hell, I ain't anorexic....so I can't discriminate or I'd be self deprecating. But, I think McDonalds went with the lesser of two evils in this case. It took so long to tell him no about the job because they were weighing the pros and cons (no pun intended again). In this case, it was all cons from the get go. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. The lesser of the two would be to NOT hire him and take the brunt instead of hiring him and waiting for the other shoe to drop!

I'm NOT saying this guy shouldn't have a job. I'm just saying that I think McDonalds was actually responsible in not hiring him as they know that their food is shitty for the waist-line! They might have actually saved this guy from more agony in the long run, but then they fell on the sword in doing so!

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