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Spin, you assume a manager is even thinking of absenteeism when looking at a fat person. Why is it we find ourselves denying human nature by placing labels like employer on people? Most of what we do comes from misunderstood gut feelings which are bubbles of unlabeled information coming out of a pool of personal history with everything blurred together. If we guessed about something or heard about it at half-attention and the sentiment was never challenged within a certain time, the brain gives it a high confidence and takes it as truth.

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I do appreciate the point of the original post, but for me the question of guilt by association was less interesting than the unspoken assumption that any physical assessment of job candidates by an employer is "prejudiced".

The fact that the negative evaluation transferred to people merely sitting next to the overweight candidates strongly suggests that the evaluation is not a rational one.

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