Have I mentioned don't hire fats? I have. So have many others. There is always the obvious reasons. I like to think the current situation is a happier ending. In any case it starts actually with a Skinny-Fat that got fired for being...well awful. We have had to hire a few times, and let go a few times. It's just so hard in this area to hire good people. Now I am a pretty good judge of character. When they hire people I have a personal game of sorts where I make predictions on what they person is likely going to do. Unfortunately I am usually heavily accurate. So it didn't bode well when this overweight guy got hired on. I knew him loosely. He always stuck out like a sore thumb because his girlfriend would always shoot me death glares. She always had resting bitch face when she walked in...oh did I mention she's roughly a sphere. She looks like a troll....very far from easy on the eyes. I still marvel that anyone could want to wife that thing (or fuck it for that matter). Anyway, my initial predictions were thus: This person was likely to call out often, and or likely to frequently come down sick. He will probably work hard the first week or two, and then drop off to doing barely any work at all. His lady is likely to pester him at work (she doesn't have a job), and is likely to also encourage him to not show up for work. He did start out working hard the first week or two. However, he kept having to answer his phone because suddenly his girl evolved into a needy parasitic demon. Then, the random call outs started to happen. While he didn't have many days to work, he often didn't show up and always had an excuse. At least two weeks out of every month he would pull the not showing up, I'm sick, got to do this, etc, etc meaning that everyone else had to work extra hours and or put up with times where we worked the floor alone. That evolved into him beginning to slack off majorly. It was a game. When managers were around he sort of did just enough to seem like he was productive. Then when they left he'd disappear, find random people to hold long conversations that never lead to purchases (usually him talking about himself). He also would take any tiny task and start to drag it on too long. Also when he would take his breaks at the most inconvenient time, his lady would follow him back in when he returned. I caught her saying all sorts of nasty shit towards me in his ear (the usually silly insults, skank, whore, etc). Also he tended to show up to work late, very late. Lying was also a frequent thing. Dude was stupid enough to tell different people different stories not realizing...that they all communicate. Every staff member got fed up really fast. He got a warning about not showing up for work and calling out too much(or being late). Shortly after he became excessively passive aggressive towards me. Things began to go missing that were important for my work (often found hidden in odd places). He would try to come up and make me look stupid in front of customers which often backfired. Then one day he crossed the line by confronting me on a supposed thing...when he clearly didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. He did this in front of customers to again, show me to show me up. I won't go into too much detail. He crossed a line you don't cross with me. Now me? I walked away. I dealt with the situation in the appropriate time and place, and that led him to getting no doubt another talking to about his behavior, etc. Now he's gone. He jumped ship to get a job elsewhere (he is likely to be fired very quickly from there), and stopped showing up. So life moves on. This is what happens when you hire fats, especially fats with viscous significant others. Oh, this isn't over. I posted previously on how I was losing my mind after they hired superfats to the front. Two of them are gone, and one has turned into a nasty hideous troll that everyone hates, and is on the verge of being fired. I've already hinted several times to upper management (and some agree) that they ought to stop hiring people who clearly look like they don't take care of themselves. If there is a silver lining in this I will probably once again get to handle the initial contact from people looking to work my dept. I am going to be so fucking vocal about they not hiring another fat.