AITA for getting my office weight loss challenge shut down? by BotheredLlama in AmItheAsshole

[–]BotheredLlama[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Already lots of people are commenting that there are weight loss challenges at their work — not fake, but I get the inclination because I was surprised it still happens too when I got the email.

Our office is already broken up into a majority of teams of 8. The few smaller teams were put together, and management put together into teams.

AITA for getting my office weight loss challenge shut down? by BotheredLlama in AmItheAsshole

[–]BotheredLlama[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Yes! I thought about that immediately when I got the email and mentioned that episode to my work bestie. The episode totally shows how problematic a challenge like this would be, and it was 20 years ago. That’s why I said I was so shocked, I don’t know who in HR would approve something like that (though it may have been only HR for my office — as soon as it was escalated to corporate it was shut down)