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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • I was actually talking to a lawyer friend of mine about this yesterday. Not this case, just is being overweight a protected class.

    Apparently it isn’t, it’s illegal to discriminate based on ability which might be limited due to your weight depending on how overweight the individual was but the weight itself is not a protected class. It comes up sometimes when people try to do things like sue theme parks because they can’t ride the roller coasters. My friend always has to tell them that they don’t have a case.

    It gets complicated because sometimes somebody cannot be accommodated because they are in a wheelchair or mobility scooter but that in that wheelchair because of their weight rather than any other disability, at which point technically it would be legal to discriminate against them. Although the defense lawyer would have to prove that there was no other mobility issue other than that caused by weight.

    Apparently none of this has any precedent though, so it’s basically just legal interpretation rather than actual law.




  • They get paid more and enough please do not defend these assholes

    They make absolutely everyone else’s lives intolerable with this crap. If you think it’s defensible I’m going to need a reason beyond self-gratification.

    Unless of course your advocating for total anarchy in which case the company will absolutely collapse with honestly I’m perfectly in favor of at this point.

    I raised a point about unpleasant people in corporate positions doing unpleasant things and for some bizarre reason you’re jumping into their defense.




  • I’m sure that’s how they think about it yes. However lying to the customer about the existence of a feature isn’t really a good long-term strategy to maintain customer relations. I’m in engineering so I don’t care, but the customer is not going to trust them if they keep doing that. In the long run it costs them sales.

    Especially considering that a lot of the time they’ll tell the customer a feature exists, and then engineering just doesn’t have the capacity to develop it. So the customer actually finds out they were lying. Not good.