Survey: Too Fat? Too Thin? Not Hired

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People instinctively know that hiring managers want to hire skinny people. But a new survey from Resume Builder found that 42 percent of underweight people feel that they’ve been discriminated against because of their weight.

Hmm.

Add to that; this survey found that

71 percent of obese people say they have experienced weight discrimination. 53 percent of overweight people say they have experienced weight discrimination. 23 percent of respondents say they ‘definitely’ or ‘probably’ faced discrimination in the
workplace because of their perceived attractive or unattractive physical appearance. 64 percent of men who self-identified as

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