Work Chronicles

So I decided that I needed to write more but the problem is I never have much to write about. What I discovered though, through the many conversations I have with my friends is that I always have an awful lot to say about work. So I decided that for the time being, I would blog about work stuff. Today's installment: 'Tina Hernandez'

I've been working with 'Tina Hernandez' for about 9 years. She was hired a few weeks after I came and I remember this fact because while she was being interviewed, one of the questions we all overheard her ask the supervisor was, "Where are all the men!!" After that everyone knew that she would be a card.
What I have found in all these years of working together is that Tina is a whining baby. Not really sure what her upbringing was but I would be willing to guess she was a spoiled brat. This guess comes from the fact that she never takes responsibility (always wants to pass her work to others) and the fact that she is extremely overweight. Her parents must have given her whatever she wanted and fixed all her problems for her so she has no idea how to do it now that she is an adult. I would imagine she tries to cope with reality vs. the false reality her parents gave her by eating. And this is why she is obese. But that's just my theory.
So after living most of her life as a big girl, she has decided to do something about it. She informed me the other day that she is considering the gastric bypass. She says that she has tried many times before to lose but nothing has worked so this is the final option. Ok, so I am a fat boy too so I don't want this to come across like I am judging her or anything cause I'm not but I do not agree with the bypass. I've said many times before that in my mind, it would be the same as buying a plant but never watering it and when it starts to die, painting the leaves green. Fundamentally, the person getting it done is not addressing the real issue behind their eating. They are only masking the problem. Incidentaly, this same plant analogy is the main reason I don't take over the counter meds. I mean, advil will releave your headache but, what I need to know is why the hell you got a headache anyway! But I digress...
Tina came to me recently and informed me of her decision and while she was telling me her plans, she started crying. It was emotional how she weaved a story about how she had never really been intimate with her husband and how she just wanted to one day walk the beach with her daughter. I was moved. Imagine how I felt when I saw her the next day with a box of donut holes. Are you eaven trying? And don't get me wrong, I wanted some of those holes too but my willpower prevailed and I resisted temptation but her, the woman that was crying the day before about how she only has sex with her husband in the dark with her clothes on, ate damn near the whole box! I ask, what is the point.
In the end, she will probably get the surgery and even lose but her eating habits will still be the same. I heard that people can actually stretch their stomachs back to the original size after they have the surgeryand end up fat again. You know why? They never address the real issue which means they still eat when they are bored, or sad, or angry. I hope that works out for her.