{"id":386,"date":"2016-04-19T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:02:25","slug":"obese-man-fired-for-fat-shaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/obese-man-fired-for-fat-shaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Obese Man Fired For Fat-Shaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROANOKE, VIRGINIA&#8211;\u00a0A thirty-four year old obese man from Roanoke was terminated Tuesday from his job at Arby&#8217;s restaurant for making crude and uncomfortable fat jokes toward the appearance of another coworker, who just happens to be slender.<\/p>\n<p>The 400 hundred pound, longtime Arby&#8217;s line-cook Bill &#8220;Joe&#8221; Bulger was working alongside thin coworker Albert Manor making scrapple sandwiches for customers when Bulger turned to Manor and started berating him in front of other employees and a roomful of shocked patrons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He just started flipping out on me,&#8221; the 29 year old skinny waif Manor told Roanoke police after the violent altercation. &#8220;He kept calling me lard-ass, heifer, doughboy, and Fat Albert in front of everyone. I was floored. At first, I thought he was talking to the guy working right behind me who&#8217;s also a thin man like myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After regaining his composure, Manor finished explaining. &#8220;Then he started saying that I shouldn&#8217;t be working here because I&#8217;m so fat that I&#8217;m a liability and that I should remove myself from earth&#8217;s life support because my fat lungs need more oxygen than most people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t the first time Bill&#8217;s fat-shamed me,&#8221; Manor added, lifting up his size small blue sweater and showing Roanoke police his sunken rib-cage. &#8220;Bill&#8217;s always making little comments under his breath about my weight and leaving french fries at my work station spelled out as the word &#8216;fat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though Bill Bulger is currently being held in the back of a white police van because police were\u00a0unable to move him, Manor wants people to know that he forgives his violent, fat-shaming attacker Bulger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna press charges,&#8221; said Manor as he pulled up his baggy pants. &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s telling me I should, ya know, to set an example for these disgusting fat-shamers everywhere, but I still believe in First Amendment rights, even if that means I have to listen to someone scream at me about my weight problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taking Bulger&#8217;s comments to heart, Albert Manor went on a diet to try and lose a few pounds in the hopes that people would stop fat-shaming him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to get down to a more respectable weight,&#8221; Manor said with a peaked smile. &#8220;If I&#8217;m lucky I&#8217;ll get down to about 95 pounds. 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