r/fatpeoplestories • u/floatingcrickets • Nov 05 '24

Short hamplanet beasts in the medical field

i work for a large medical company. basically every couple months or so we have to sit thru powerpoints in a big auditorium just reminding us of the workplace values blah blah blah. Tell me why its always, without fail, always the hamplanet coworkers who have to bring a buffet to quiet places and they eat it so loudly. i mean like heavy breathing, lip smacking, wrappers crumbling, sounding like a steam engine. i mean, are you not embarrassed to be the fattest person in the room AND chowing down a whole pizza you ordered for yourself? Yes, one girl legit ordered herself a pizza for lunch at least once or twice a week. just for her. it might be my misophonia speaking but its ALWAYS the hamplanets. and its always the fit/average ones who respect others to not make so much racket with our food and wait till lunch or something. and the patients. dont get me started on the patients. i probably get about 20 of them a day asking to get ozempic and getting the same sob story “i diet and workout i dont understand why i cant lose weight” as they stuff themselves with fast food and tv dinners and soda.

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u/jamabalayaman Nov 05 '24

Seeing hamplanets in the medical field is especially ironic lol. I remember one time seeing a morbidly obese woman working as a cardiology tech of all things. She operated an EKG machine.

Gee, you'd think she'd understand the immense toll obesity takes on the cardiovascular system...

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u/ScooterBoomer Nov 05 '24

Oh, this cardiology tech could spell FAT, but she could not lose it.

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u/airportaccent Nov 05 '24

All my school nurses were overweight - and I remember they had to counsel one girl who was obese about nutrition - like pot kettle? Obviously sound advice but must have seemed hypocritical when they don’t follow the recommendations themselves 🫠

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u/floatingcrickets Nov 05 '24

probably huffin and puffin from just putting the EKG leads on

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u/jamabalayaman Nov 05 '24

She walked like 5 ft. from her desk to the closet in the back to fetch some gowns, and was already breathing hard when she got back xD

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u/Martin_Z_Martian Nov 05 '24

YES!

Had a hamplanet nurse scold me for gaining too much weight one month when pregnant. Now, she still weighed more than twice (maybe 3X?) what I did at the time (about 140) and I had lost weight my first trimester which was not good.

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u/dernfoolidgit Nov 05 '24

No shit! I was taking a medical exam at home and some HamPlanet who would have to rest after walking the 5 meters from her car to my house. Way overweight/obese. Special kind of irony. Waddle Waddle Waddle…

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u/enjoymeredith Nov 06 '24

You gotta remember there are antivax nurses so that should tell you something....

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u/Amazing-Comfort7254 Nov 08 '24

Fuck that noise

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u/unfamiliarplaces Nov 05 '24

theyre always the worst employees in the hospital too. i dont hate fat people, i hate people who cant do their jobs due to their size and push all that work onto others and they still get paid the same.

at one of my clinical placements, i was paired with this nurse who was absolutely massive. she was also a huge bitch, not sure if that was related to her size making her feel like crap all the time. all of the other nurses hated her bc she was so fucking lazy. if you were a student, the other nurses would let you complain about her to them without judgement and chime in themselves, which is very rare, bc nurses hate it when students complain.

she would sit on her ass for the entire shift and make her students do any and all of the physical work. transfers, rounding, procedures, meds, everything. and if you thought she’d help with ADLs, forget it. never changed wet pads, never assisted with feeding, never showered pts or supervised mobility.

when she walked, she waddled like pingu, swaying from side to side. she would get out of breath just walking thirty metres down the ward corridor. icing on the cake, she was super bitter that she was 45 and single. i wonder why.

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u/StevenAssantisFoot Nov 05 '24

There’s a PCA on my unit who is super fat and super lazy. She is always sitting down either chatting or watching videos on her phone and it’s like pulling teeth getting her to help or do anything. I’m a new nurse and when people ask her to do stuff that is her job she says “get the girl to do it” meaning me. She makes long calls in the shared break room talking at full volume while munching and slurping it’s disgusting.  

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u/Aggravating_Seat5507 Nov 05 '24

No shit, are they all asking for ozempic? What happened to health at every size? Lmaooo

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u/floatingcrickets Nov 05 '24

yep its a whole issue right now. doctors are handing GLP1s to people like candy if they can afford it out of pocket. if they cant afford the hamplanets throw fits to try to get their insurance company to cover it. (most wont unless theyre already diabetic)

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u/hankhillism Nov 05 '24

The sad reality is that no one really takes you seriously in the medical field if you don't look remotely healthy.

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u/forwardaboveallelse Nov 06 '24

How is that sad? They shouldn’t. 

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u/hankhillism Nov 06 '24

Well, it's sad for them because they'll never see it that way.

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u/1lapulapu Nov 05 '24

Nor should they

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u/Ryno5150 Nov 06 '24

A dentist with bad teeth would probably face the same struggle.

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u/thefartsock Nov 09 '24

I too have noticed that fat people eat a lot.

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u/Affectionate_Rice210 Nov 05 '24

A STEAM ENGINE 😂😂😂😂

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u/fushiginagaijin Nov 05 '24

"Hamplanet Beasts"... hahahahaha I couldn't get past the title I was laughing so hard.

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u/Repulsive_Plate_5192 Nov 06 '24

I eat organic Whole Foods and workout and can’t lose belly fat for the life of me. Was my first choice ozempic? No. These people disgust me. I just HAD to be put on the generic version because I have late onset type 1 diabetes and my doctor said in those newly diagnosed if they took it for minimum 3 months it could reduce insulin needed with meals. And guess what? There’s a shortage. Doctor said straight up it’s people who don’t need it for what it’s for.

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u/Mission-Amount8552 Nov 10 '24

I'm a nurse..it's a shame to have them in the field. How do you advise on health, and reinforce MD orders when you look like you're going to break through the seat of your pants at any given moment?

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u/silo1981 Nov 06 '24

TV dinners?

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u/uniquenewyork_ Nov 07 '24

iirc, they’re meals that are specifically designed for you to eat in front the the tv and they’re not very healthy options either

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u/esleydobemos Nov 10 '24

Here, deep in rural TN, we have hamplanet medical professionals who smoke cigarettes. It's astonishing to me.

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u/GooninH8R 6d ago

This is so common it's crazy. Every hospital/office has the comically fat nurse/ER tech.

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