for thinking everyone at work should not have to pick up the slack because a colleague is too overweight to do her share?

Goady, Twiggy. Won't be back.

It's irrelevant why she's being assigned more of x task. Management are assigning the workload (as is their job) it's not up to OP to decide they all need to do the same amount of each task. If she can't do the tasks assigned to her then she needs to speak to management about the amount of x task being too much for her to cope with not a 'not fair whinge'. It's not her place to decide how much if x task everyone should be doing!

And what a surprise... OP hasn't been back

Yes it is. The only reason they CANT assign her the tasks is because she's to fat to to them!!

But it's NOT.

management (you know, the people in charge) have assigned her different tasks THAT is her job! Which she is doing.

its only the OP deciding everyone must be assigned the same tasks.

She is now morbidly obese and is very open about the fact that she eats too much and does not have any medical condition causing it. She even jokes about it sometimes.

Perhaps her obesity IS the medical condition. There doesn’t need to be anything ‘causing’ it. If you do a bit of research around the subject of obesity, you might understand that the underlying causes are complex. It’s not simply a question of mind over matter. It’s a physiological problem involving hunger and satiety hormones where the body has reached a tipping point and it is very difficult to put the gears into reverse. Would your job situation be any better if there was an underlying medical condition? The poor woman jokes about it out of embarrassment. She’s getting a dig in at herself before someone else does because she knows what you’re all thinking.

MN hates fat people 😒

demanding or even just expecting ‘fairness’ at work is a fools errand

This.

At school, there is an expectation that the teacher is 'fair' and treats all the pupils equally, making sure all have a turn, all get recognition, etc.
This does not translate to the workplace.

At work, your employment relationship is with your employer, not colleagues or teammates. If you are doing what is in your contract (written, or verbal in the case of reasonable tasks as instructed by your manager), and your employer is paying you what was agreed, that is all you can expect.

If you find yourself being routinely taken advantage of, and surrounded by lazy people, then leave the job. But if it is just one person getting different treatment, just ignore it.

She's being assigned her fat colleagues share as shes too fat to do it!!

She's doing 'her job' as her workload is being assigned by management. Op just isn't happy with how management are assigning it. Management are.

Yes, if it stops her doing part of her job.

Dunno. But mumsnet have a marketing agreement with a WLI company now, so I suppose once everybody's been made to feel shit about themselves, there's an easy link to click to put themselves in the position of being the superior bully instead of the lowly victim.

You mean context changes things?

Wow what a surprise...

Almost like if OP had posted "CFer at work is not doing their share" and then later shared "Well it's because they have a disability that impairs one aspect of work" it would change things...

Umm what? I have family in construction. Yes you have to be pretty able bodied. or you can’t do the job. This is not the out there concept you seem to think it is.

Oh it's not a sudden outbreak! It's been going on a very long time.

She's not picking up her workload. Management are assigning tasks (each individuals workload) if OP is unhappy with what she is being assigned she can talk to them. Or get another job, it's only her opinion that the tasks need to be assigned the same to everyone. They don't. The allocation is up to management.

But what can they do? I totally get what you’re saying, but put yourself in the HR manager’s role…what can they do? Make her lift heavy boxes and risk her suing them if she falls? Threaten her with the sack because she is too overweight to fulfill her role? Tell her everyone else is annoyed because she’s a lazy bastard and won’t lift the heavy boxes?

It’s a minefield for them, she could take them to a tribunal for discrimination, it’s impossible.

If you were in their shoes OP, how exactly would you deal with it?

Is she capable of doing her job? Management and HR should be dealing with this but sounds like they have made reasonable adjustments for her. I would be wary of how you approach this as it could be seen as bullying

What's with the sudden outbreak of fat shaming threads just lately?

Heavens. We all work with somebody who ducks out of their fair share of work for whatever reason. If she can’t do her job because she is too overweight she needs to move to a different job. It’s not a disability. Honestly in our local supermarket on an average day you can count thd reasonable-sized people on the fingers of a mutilated hand. They can’t ALL have deep-seated disability issues causing weight gain.

Sounds like a management issues as others have said.

I’d speak to management without mentioning colleague. Tell them that you can only manage X amount of the physical tasks and it is taking its toll on you.

If they want to spare colleague these tasks they may have to hire another person to do it.

In which case she needs to assess her own workload with management if she's finding it difficult. It's not her business how management manage other people.

Did you completely miss this

Management have quietly stopped assigning her any of the lifting or carrying tasks

Are you hard of reading and comprehension. The op clearly has a problem with picking up her workload while she is busy picking up weight and being let off her duties.

Rubbish. Management are obviously happy with the work she does do. People in a job don't have to be doing exactly the same thing to be doing their job.