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IT Workers Are Getting Fatter
buzzardsbay writes "While technologies such as virtualization, multi-threading, and blade servers have made the data center leaner, those who work there are getting... well... not leaner. According to a new study by CareerBuilder.com, 34 percent of IT workers say they have gained more than ten pounds in their current jobs. And 16 percent say they've gained at least twice that. The culprits seem to be the stressful-yet-sedentary nature of tech work coupled with our famously poor eating habits. According to the survey, some 41 percent of IT workers eat out for lunch twice or more per week, making portion and calorie control difficult. Eleven percent buy their lunch out of a vending machine at least once a week."
I guess if you're a sysadmin for the Internal Revenue Service then you're really screwed.
...Mac is still skinny. He better watch out; PC may get peckish, and eat him.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
What next? to have their own gravity field too?
Actually, I have found that just smoking more crack on the days that I eat McDonalds solves the problem~
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
This was the contents of his fridge and pantry: Bologna
Beer
Hot dogs
Chocolate Syrup (three of these)
Two cartons of ice cream (only two, yet three chocolate syrup bottles)
Three Jack's frozen pizzas
Four containers of butter, and one box of sticked butter.
Bucket of fried chicken
Two pizzas from some pizza joint
The Pantry:
No bread just hot dog buns
Three containers of peanut butter
At least a pound to a pound a half of sugar I'm missing a few items, but its all about time. He just didn't have enough time to think about what hes eating. Hes on call most of the time and instead of buying healthier solutions he chose quickly made and heavily preserved foods.
around my belly mainly.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
it's part of the stereotype. If your a fatso (me). You will be most likely to get the job. Wearing glasses helps. Evil Spock beard is better, best not to look like Pitr from User Friendly, go for Sid http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/sid/ but extra weight helps.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
because if the food sucks, you are less likely to overeat?
OR you could move about occasionally at work. I know that I don't *have* to sit and stare at my happy little green on black terminal all day- though I sometimes do. Little stuff like kicking your legs (Pretend that someone cares, you are alone in that dark room and you know it) can help lots. I personally have a set of 15lb dumbbells under the desk. Good for passing time, or threatening that damned mail room guy who vehemently claims that I slow down his machines on purpose. Despite his nice habit of subconsciously closing out ads as they open.
Anger in the workplace has done nothing but good for my health. Sitting there shaking in rage at the Pointy-hairs burns calories like no other! The same can be said about the ten minutes of heart pounding after I am 'surprise' visited by my uppers.
Sometimes I wish that I had a bowflex down here just to toy with them. Make them think that I actually DO have time to work out. Even better would be the questions as to how it GOT there in the first place. Piece by piece, just like I learned from MASH.
Oh, and working out. Moving around. Sex. Eat whatever you want, just move about some more to compensate!
(insert fat, deep laugh) Just because I'm unafraid of thermal detonators, collaborate with bounty hunters, have a small rat-like thingy, gammorean guards and a passion for live, frozen wall ornaments does NOT make me fat!
PS, Where's my money Solo?
...would be to have a treadmill or cross-trainer in every cubicle. The harder the worker exercises, the higher the priority his/her processes are given.
"Hey, Joe, you're covered in sweat!"
"Yeah, I know, those KDE apps take ages to compile!"
-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
but have the cubes grown in proportion to the programmers?
So that's why everyone has 64Gb workstation?
Common sense is not so common
Yeah, but the only kind of friends you're likely to meet are the ones who like walking around a museum or city park... and I hate those people!
... Seven of Nine? I guess its true, there are all sorts of weirdoes on the Internet...
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Like I said before "eating nutritiously won't make you loose(sic) weight."
Yup. After reading a leaflet about "Five a Day" I started eating a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and drinking lots of water at work, instead of chocolate and crisps and fizzy drinks, and I gained a lot of weight. I mean, I felt great - I had loads of energy, never felt hungry, and I looked and felt generally healthier - great. Shame about gaining about gaining so much weight.
Of course it wasn't until a couple of weeks later while we were out shopping that my girlfriend pointed out that it's meant to be five *portions* of fresh fruit and vegetables per day, not five *kilos*...
We've secretly replaced his coffee with Folgers Crystal Meth. Let's see if he notices...