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'Six-pack or you're fired' | Business founder says he only hires 'fit' workers

Business founder says he only hires 'fit' workers

A salesman and business founder has garnered attention online after demanding all his workforce have six-packs or risk losing their job.

Andy Elliott, a car salesman and sales trainer, says in a video reel on Instagram that he has a “standard” as a business owner and boss, those requirements being that his employees all boast a physically toned physique and six-pack.

“Six-pack or you're fired - that's what I tell my entire team,” the 43-year-old salesman explains to an audience in the video. Elliott goes on to explain that having this body type indicates a sense of routine and discipline but acknowledges that not everyone agrees with his approach, and so he’s only talking to a select few who ‘get it’.

“There are some people in this room that said they would sue their company if they told them they had to have a six-pack. We know you would sue - that conversation is for the ‘one per cent’ - it wasn't for you,” he goes on.

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