150 • Meet the team (12)
Be kind to our stock-keeper, Howard.
He’s desk-bound, but scarcely a coward.
He put down his pen
And toiled like ten men
The night the Great Cake was devoured.
This distasteful snapshot of office life reveals how body-shaming – more typically reserved for female colleagues – is in special cases applied also to men. In this huge chap’s case, jealousy of his evident arithmetical prowess apparently legitimises jibes about his outlandish bodily bulk.