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Are you a fat kitten?
May 6 2008
Alongside its usual fare of scantily clad females and men baring expensive watches, Arena magazine claims to have unearthed a new phenomenon in investment banks: the fat kitten.
Unlike ageing fat cats, fat kittens are apparently bankers of “tender years” and “portly appearance”, caused by years of “old school indolence, financed by years of excessive bonuses and inordinate stress levels in the office”.
JPMorgan and KPMG are cited kitten breeding grounds – despite Jamie Dimon’s decision to reopen the bank’s gyms and sponsor a fat employee to lose weight. Research released earlier this year suggested financial services professionals are more likely to be overweight than those in other industries.
Is Arena onto something? Does banking cause corpulence? And is podginess perfectly ok when you’re taking home a six-figure pay cheque? Chew the fat below.
Anyone in a deskbound job has a struggle keeping the weight off, and boredom leads to a desire to nibble. My tennis instructor laughs at us over 35s, as we can't run as quickly around the court as him - well he's a pro and about 10 years younger than us, doing nothing but sport all day, so it's hardly surprising he's a bit quicker on his feet! Clearly the important thing is not to be discouraged if you can't make it to Olympian standards, but just do what you can, little and often.
Pear-shaped 20 May 2008
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