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."

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Not just IT workers

[Lord Grey]

From TFA:

... IT workers [in the United States] can take heart in another CareerBuilder finding: They are less chubby than financial services and government workers. Fifty-three percent of financial workers said they have gained weight at their current jobs, while the number for government workers is 52 percent.

I guess if you're a sysadmin for the Internal Revenue Service then you're really screwed.

Re:Not just IT workers

[Architect_sasyr]

I don't fear root@irs.gov as much as I fear bofh@irs.gov........

Re:Not just IT workers

[megaditto]

Im 165 and have been in IT for 15years. No problems here. Pounds, kilos, IQ points, or millimeters?

Only PC is getting fat...

[Aardpig]

...Mac is still skinny. He better watch out; PC may get peckish, and eat him.

Re:Only PC is getting fat...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't be the first time. A while back, Windows XP got really hungry on his way to the store and he ate the resident hobo, Windows ME. He got really sick afterwards, went into a coma, and once he woke up, he ran away and changed his name. We now call him Windows Vista.

Re:Eating out

[TheRealMindChild]

Actually, I have found that just smoking more crack on the days that I eat McDonalds solves the problem~

Re:Maybe if they went vegan they wouldn't be so fa

[nbowman]

because if the food sucks, you are less likely to overeat?

Re:Eating out

[Anonymous Coward]

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!