A Great Time and ....

First of all, minus getting lost a few times; today was a great day and I finally got to see PJ thanks to a very good friend of mine. We had a great time and even more interesting conversations which I think I could never have had anywhere else. LOL.

Then, I came back home (3oo km south bound) and saw this online:

Air India sacks 10 overweight air-hostesses

Bernama

NEW DELHI, Tues:

No one knows better the virtues of looking slim and fit than 10 air-hostesses of Air India, who have lost their jobs for failure to shed those extra kilos that rendered them unfit for flying duties.

The services of these air-hostesses, who were grounded by the national carrier for being overweight, have been terminated for their failure to reduce their weight to the acceptable standards and refusal to take up alternative ground duties.

Confirming the decision, the Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted an airline spokesperson as saying that the termination of their services was carried out “strictly under the terms of their appointment,” a claim that has been dubbed as illegal by the sacked employees.

Sources said the “overweight” hostesses were given sufficient opportunity to reduce their weight to the acceptable standards, and they were also offered alternative jobs on ground, which they refused to accept.

The sources said while 10 air hostesses were sacked in the Northern Region, there were some more across the country who have been served similar notices.
The sacked air hostesses, however, said that the action of the national carrier was illegal as they were not served any notice and the decision was taken when the matter was pending in the Supreme Court.

“The action is illegal and against natural justice. I will soon file an application in the Supreme Court against the order,” advocate Arvind Sharma, lawyer of the air hostesses told PTI.

The rules prescribe different weight limits according to their height and age. For an 18-year-old air hostess with a height of 152 cm, the maximum weight permissible is 50 kg while for air hostesses in the age group of 26 to 30 and a height of 152 cm, the weight limit is 56 kg. — BERNAMA

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Well talk about stupidity. People really have very little brains to let stupid things like this to get into their contracts. What were the people in-charge doing?

While image is important in the service industry, such lewd discrimination would foster only malignancy on self-image of individuals who already have enough assault from the media's potrayal of "beautiful."

Being overweight is never healthy, but sacking people because of it is pointless. Not that it is going to positively encourage people to take care of their weight.

I suppose in their heart of hearts, these companies are even concerned about their employees' welfares? Looks like more of like an attempt to show that they need to sell their image by using their employees. Talk about sexism and being cheap.

I suppose they don't understand that weight problems often stem from diverse reasons like underlying endocrine problems. They should probably elaborate on their "sufficient opportunity".

And I thought this Scale God nonsense had altars in Western countries but now it looks like even Eastern people are governed by the scale.

Next thing you know; if you burn a tone darker (sun burn perhaps) you might get sacked?

Talk about a mass soul maiming.