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

@Twigggy is your work load unreasonable? Do you do too much lifting? That’s the only bit that should concern you. Whether it’s because there is not enough staff, not enough trolleys or whatever, the only person you should be looking at is yourself.
If you’re asked to do someone’s share of lifting, just say you find the load too much and it is impacting on your health.
If your colleague sits on the chair and goes: can you lift this for me because otherwise she can’t do her job, just say no, it’s too much for you.
Anything else is irrelevant.

Or management think she’s doing her full job because everyone else is doing it for her…

You have absolutely no idea whether this colleague or other overweight people are lazy.

If the lifting and carrying is causing you health issues then you should ask for the risk assessment to be updated to take into account the additional duties. Focus on the things you have some control over.

And what do you think management should do about her weight?

They probably aren't even allowed to mention her weight due to employment laws.
The employees weight issues are for her to deal with alone.

Sorry, but I’ve certainly known a very obese person who readily admitted that he just loved his food. Though he was phenomenally successful in his career. It was probably down to a great deal of wine, too, and as he said, far too many gourmet business lunches on expenses.

the OP only knows what she sees, which may not be the whole story, and its not her job to raise it with a colleague. If she feels she personally can't do the job that managment expect her to do then she takes it to them and requests and lifting and handling assessment rather than coming on to SM to whine.

I mean if she can't, she can't.

I agree with most pp - you don’t know her reasons for gaining weight and if you’re having too much work put on you it’s a management issue.

What kind of role is that you do? I ask because when I worked in an office I had to speak up for myself and a few other junior staff being asked to move a whole lot of heavy boxes.

My role was very much a desk job (PR account executive talking to clients and writing content ) and we hadn’t been trained to lift safely etc and it was not part of our job description at all , so I raised it as a Health and safety issue.

It’s not temporary, it’s progressive. If any colleague was progressively doing less work and everyone else was picking up more, then it definitely should be tackled.

It would be and has been in my workplace. I was in a near identical situation as the OP coupled with the fact the colleague took six months off sick every year for three years in a row. Management kept muttering about capability proceedings.

Ultimately yes reasonable adjustments have to be made but someone can still be fired if incapable of doing their job regardless if it’s due to a disability. Though they’d normally look at adjusting tasks if possible. So less lifting and more admin? But yes it’s unfair on others. But not many HR teams actually will do anything. Ask for an OH appointment saying your job is too physical/ too much lifting?

So it’s okay to be a CF and expect other people to do your job if you’re fat, and nobody is allowed to point out the bleeding obvious or be resentful about having to pick up your slack? If OP had just posted about a CF slacking and expecting others to pick up the slack, we’d all be on her side; just because she posted the reason she’s suddenly in the wrong? No wonder this country is going to the dogs; you can get away with slacking because it’s unkind for people to pick you up on it? FGS.

OP your issue is that you have an unmanageable workload to the extent that you state you are "exhausted" by it. Speak to your line manager about how they propose to resolve this - recruitment, assigning parts of the work to other teams etc.

No it's not. Management are obviously happy with the work she does or they wouldn't keep her on.

Maybe she has got medical iasues, just not disclosed to you. Even if they are issues that are caused by the weight, then they could still be valid reasons to excuse her from heavy lifting.
Is it fair to you, no. But also, there are employment laws protrcting her if she has disclosed medical issues.

You assume that they have quietly made this decision because you weren’t aware of it, but there may well have been talks with your colleague behind the scenes. There could be factors at play that you aren’t aware of which led to a risk assessment preventing her from lifting. Why are you so arsed?

Get rid of her by feeding her more. Bring in cakes and chocolates and watch as Janet the Gannet eats herself to death.

I hate people like this who revel in their laziness. Laziness to curb their appetite, do any exercise and won’t pull their weight at work.

Totally didn't notice that, thanks

Never noticed that bit.. thanks.

This is such an obvious goady post, the op is even called Twiggy for fucks sake 🙄

Are you the same person who was complaining about a colleague not disclosing she was on weight loss injections?

This. I would imagine the jokes are deflection & she’s not actually thinking her weight gain is hilarious. It sounds like you might be fairly new to the working world, the best advice I could give anyone in work is don’t worry about what everyone else is doing and focus on your own work & output. Learning about equity over equality is important too!

I would also love to see the HR meeting that would follow a manager telling an employee they need to engage a dietician and trainer...

If the lifting and carrying is affecting your health then complain and ask for lighter duties. Personally I would prefer to be walking about doing things rather than stuck at a desk all day. If the other person can't do the work and it's specified in their contract then they could have fired her, but it seems they have resolved the issue by modifying her job. Whether they will do the same for you, you would have to ask and see what they say, but her circumstances have no bearing on your discussions with management about needing lighter work.