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Ryuu96 said:
ConservagameR said:

The same group who's now supposedly big government, isn't big government and never has been, because they weren't for RvW in the first place. It's big government and the pressure they put on the unbiased, neutral, judges to make it so, and it looks like part of that is what's needed to undo it. The Democrats have complete control of all 3 branches do they not?

How much money is Sony or MS, etc, donating to Weight Watchers? How much more are they going to be paying their overweight underpaid employee's so they can afford healthier food? How much extra time are they going to give up per week, paid, so those employee's can hit the gym and exercise, especially during crunch time? What about when some of the healthy fit employee's complain?

They are corporations who care about their employee's (health), aren't they?

Maybe big corporations should just make sure they offer what their employee's need to do their job at work and stay out of their personal lives. Offer worthy products, not personal advice. If an employee's personal life is negatively impacting their job, figure it out or time for a new workplace.

A buddy of mine has a saying. Big government + big corporations = big babies. Looks as though no babies may be perfectly interchangeable.

If this is Sony's stance, that's fine, just don't try and hide it. The fact that they did begs the question, why, if it's what the majority wants or what's best?

But it's fine to ban abortion and take away human rights from women.

I don't even know where to start with that comparison, it's a joke, right? Lol.

Overweight =/= Pregnancy: I don't want to bother with this too much cause it's not alike at all but I'll run through those questions; Employees can choose what food they spend their pay on, being overweight is not necessarily unhealthy (obesity is) and that stuff depends more on your blood pressure, blood sugar, etc. Sure they can be often linked but someone who is overweight may still be healthy otherwise internally, a skinny person could be just as unhealthy, the employees can work out in their own time, Microsoft & Sony aren't working their employees 24/7.

And lastly, Microsoft does actually offer assistance on this stuff, not only with their in-house gym facilities but also stuff like this.

Pick your favorite way to stay fit. We will reimburse you up to $1,200 per year for employee-only wellness-related expenses that help you get and stay fit physically, emotionally, and financially. You can use those funds for anything from gym memberships or fitness classes to services like meditation programs, massage, weight-loss program fees, caregiver support, financial advising, and debt management.

You do know that many US corporations offer health insurance too, right? Not to mention all the different mental help services offered, a person may be overweight due to something going on mentally and Microsoft offers help for that, not all though are overweight due to mental health issues but should they also stay out of that as someone's health is their private life? Lol.

Either way, a persons weight can change, being pregnant can't if abortion is banned and being pregnant more often than not has a much larger physical and mental effect on someone's body than being overweight does, this really shouldn't have to be explained...Someone being overweight can usually easily perform their job at a tech company still but someone being pregnant often has a big physical and mental impact on them, they're literally growing another human in their body, being pregnant would affect a persons ability to work far more than being overweight in the tech industry, it ain't even close.

Corporations do offer what their employees need to do their job at work and that includes making sure that their employees are healthy and happy, a happy employee, more often than not, is a good one and one who stays at the company, I for one am happy that our companies do actually make an effort to care about their employees (although, some have a lot more work to do) rather than the slave labour we see in places like China.

Not to mention, in the tech industry especially, right now there's a lot of talk about there being a talent shortage and companies are being very competitive with each other in taking that talent recently which is even more reason why companies should be looking out for their employees wellbeing, taking the stance of "if you're unhappy, go and find another job!" is a sure fire way to cause someone like Microsoft to lose key staff to their rivals...Not a very smart way to run a business.

I know I only spoke about Microsoft but I'm confident that Sony/Nintendo offer a lot of the same stuff too, as do many tech industry companies, and actually, a big selling point about Microsoft has always been about their very generous employee benefits which includes the wide coverage health insurance they offer. If they stayed out of it and didn't offer help in that stuff then they would quickly become a less desirable place to work at.

In Obama's first 100 days he was supposed to make abortion a constitutional right wasn't he? The Democrats had complete control of the government then as well didn't they?

It's only seen as banning to those who agreed with it when it was instated. It's like the Republicans are choosing to abort the Democrats baby right now, which they wish to keep, though to Republicans their view is you should've been more responsible in the first place and they're simply righting a wrong. It's all relative, and a bit ironic.

I've heard this, it's not the same excuse, so many times. A persons weight can change but their pregnancy can't? You mean all woman are born pregnant or are destined to become pregnant and there is nothing they can do about it? Are all people born fat or destined to become fat? Other than those who have a more rare condition that leads to obesity, the rest simply aren't being responsible when it comes to their food intake. Just like if you're not responsible sexually, besides some more rare occasions.

I'm sure during crunch time MS and others would be more than happy to give time off for stress eating and poor food intake due to lack of time and exercise. Maybe MS and others should have free in house liposuction where they can just suck you down quick, sew you back up, and get you right back to work? Are we also only talking about gaming corporations, because this issue reaches far far beyond gaming, as well as when it comes to body mass and how that impacts job performance anywhere.

One of the major indicators of a much higher likelihood of death due to covid was body mass. Overweight and obese people were at much higher risk. It's already a health concern in general, but it goes beyond that. Covid has been going on for 2 years now and still isn't really over. Once in a lifetime event or not, that's nothing to sneeze at.

Desirable places to work is also relative. I as well as most of my friends, won't work for companies who get too personal. You give me what I need to do my job at work and I'll figure out the rest. A buddy went through some real tough personal losses years back and lost his job, but never held it against the employer, and neither would I. I can also say that the companies who were more focused on the product than the employees, though still reasonable to work for, had the most growth and made the most progress, because the work was the most important. Which also led to big bonuses and a majority of content employee's, so what's to complain about?

The west no doubt was better than the orient when it comes to how businesses treated their employees, but they aren't much better any more because they've taken it to far. The balance was good, but now they're starting to act as caregivers, and soon enough they'll be babysitters, and how much work to babies get done?

I'm sure MS, Sony, etc, would love for none of their employees to have children or even families because the productivity would be off the charts. Until they had a labor shortage..... in which case how could that possibly, come to pass...?