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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Given how bad so many people are at washing their hands (if they even wash at all), I kind of wish this was a real policy. At the very least, there should be a designated hand washing supervisor for the employees at restaurants.

I've worked in the industry on and off for many years; on far too many occasions I've seen not only improper washing technique, but also handling cooked food, then taking out the trash/touching a door handle, then going back to handling food without a glove change. And then contaminating the gloves by touching the same part that touches food when they do change them. It's extremely common and happens in every restaurant I've worked at. Good thing we have immune systems.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. This just changed my perception.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 18 minutes ago

And my axe!

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

There are freaks where I work who even after going through a pandemic, still don't fucking wash their hands. Nasty af.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I'm a Food Safety Manager with a CCL. Tell. Me. Where. These. Heretics. Live.

Edit: provided you work at a Food Commissary, or Restaurant.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 17 minutes ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 hour ago

Yes, that well known hand-spread pandemic in a population of immune-suppressed people. Dude, you have skin, you have an innate and acquired immune system, they deal with with this crap on the daily.

Unless these freaks were your surgeons prepping your heart transplant, calm the fuck down with the hysteria.

Enjoy this video of a human immune cell (I know, I know, natural immunity is a myth) chasing a bacteria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xh-bkiv_c

According to AI that is never wrong

"the total number of neutrophils in the entire body is estimated to be around 7 times 10^11 (700 billion) "

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/22313-neutrophils

Just for you I'm going to sneeze on my hands then use ALL the handrails on the bus!

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks Kyle, you're a real one

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Kyle Cooley always got ya back.

Edit: Whoops, wrong Kyle, though he'd probably help you as best he could if you were at Taco Ticklers.

Edit 2: Maybe Kyle is another nominative deterministic name that makes one radical as fuck?

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yeaaaah... those signs are needed. I recall hand washing is fairly common still, like 3/4th (favoring women) but that's not universal.

Looking it up, that's about right but apparently only 30% of men use soap? Wtf, lol

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That cant be right, I hope thats not right

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

From what I've seen, that's optimistic unfortunately. But it seems to be dependent on the region / country.

By my anecdotal experience, seems to me men in poorer countries wash their hands way more than those in wealthier countries too.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Anecdotal experience here as well, but in the US with public restrooms, the men's room is generally much cleaner looking than the women's room. I'm not going to say that is the actual case. It probably isn't. I will say that every guy in the US seems to act as though the guy that went in before him used his dick like a firehose to strategically cover every single surface in that room with urine. Damn near nothing gets touched, and I could clean a men's room in less than 10 minutes no matter what happened in there, unless it got utterly destroyed with puke or other biohazards.

The women's room routinely looks like an exorcism just happened in there. I don't know what's going on in there, but there's toilet paper covering EVERY SINGLE surface of that room, there's mysterious multicolored liquids on the floor. There's occasionally what appears to be an extremely bloody mouse. It's not a mouse.

The long and short of this is that in my experience a public restroom is the IRL version of Minesweeper. Good luck out there.

[–] tym@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

With all due respect, my penis is the cleanest thing in a public restroom. I wash it twice a day.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

That is definitely the excuse common among people who do not wash their hands.

It's not true in any way but its very pithy.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

I work with a lot of grease and oils and whatnot, I have to wash my hands before I piss, and unless I piss on my hand, there's not much need to wash them again.

Though I don't work around food, which is important.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 80 points 12 hours ago
[–] espentan@lemmy.world 27 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

First time I saw that sign I was baffled, as in most other countries I've been to it's illegal for employees to use the same facilities as guests. Then I got a bit grossed out thinking of the fact that employees apparently need to be reminded to wash their hands.

I saw a hand-written sign in a gynecologist office reminding employees to clean their equipment between uses.

Thankfully, I was only there for a prescription refill. I was so horrified that I switched doctors.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Now think about how many are forgetting in countries where this isn't required.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 6 hours ago

That's illegal in most places? Never knew that! In Japan, a lot of toilets in stores have signs saying "Employees may use this toilet too. Thank you for your understanding." I've always been baffled by these signs and considered them unnecessary because isn't it normal for employees to go to the toilet too? I didn't even know that this can be illegal in some countries.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

The last air BNB I had that was connected to the sewer service and still demanded the visitors use the garbage can and "not flush anything that didn't come out of you."

I'm not going to pay for the privilege of smelling everyone's shitty paper, having to clean everything and still get ass fucked by fines.

Fuck that crazy shit air BNB got stupid, I'll never use that shit again.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 24 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

There’s a ton of places that can’t handle toilet paper in their sewage systems.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

Seems more likely this is because they have visitors from places with poor sewage who default to tossing toilet paper in the trash.

Far more common to see signs saying what cannot be flushed.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This was at a Dunkin' Donuts in Massachusetts.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

America has some of the worst public utilities in the world.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Then again, they say do flush it, so I'm guessing theirs can handle it but they have a large immigrant population from somewhere that cannot who is used to not flushing it.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Rural people or people on septic too.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

5660

Reread the sign.

"MUST BE FLUSHED IN THE TOILET. PLEASE DO NOT THROW THEM IN THE TRASH CAN."

Idk if they're on septic or main, but regardless the issue on the sign is that it CAN, nay MUST be flushed NOT thrown in the trash.

Therefore, "nuh uh."

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

No pictures for the illiterate/dyslexic people. I give them a pass.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I read the sign and it is a great reminder for people who are not used to flushing toilet paper.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I am confusion, I must have misinterpreted your last reply, my mistake!

It was pretty vague so you’re not to blame.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

They don't need to be reminded.

It's just that all hand wash stations need to be marked. And while there might be employee restrooms. It's not outside the realm of reason that they might need to use the customer one. Hence it gets sign posted.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

What countries do you know of where that's the actual law?

It's usually preferred if there's room for separate ones, but at the same time I'm pretty sure in almost every country I've visited I can remember examples of little bars and cafés where there's a single tiny bathroom shared by customers and employees alike.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

One must imagine employeed washing hands.

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Aw crap saw the sign when visiting the USA, I thought it was meant to reassure me. Surely they must wash their hand

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

You would think so. But I've been at a small local cafe and watched a guy from the kitchen walk into and out of the bathroom still wearing the same blue nitrile gloves. Immediately noped out and left because that's just fucking gross

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Health inspection report?

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Have you ever worked in the food industry because it really sounds like you've never worked in the food industry.

I have. The only reason I can imagine it being fine, though maybe technically not health code, is if certain cleaning chemicals are kept in the bathroom and they're grabbing them in the middle of cleaning some non-food surface. There are plenty of things to clean on a slow shift, and some of them aren't really going to be hurt if you ran into the bathroom real quick for bleach or something.

But that's a weird edge case specifically contrived to make it kinda okay. That's not normal.

I can almost see the logic in wearing service gloves into the bathroom, and then tossing them after you do your business and before washing your hands. But coming back out with the same gloves? If the business can't afford for you to change your gloves, find a new job. If you don't feel the need to change your gloves, find a new job.

[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 18 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

If I saw such a sign, I would be even more worried. As they say, every sign has a story behind

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 36 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The story is that it’s mandatory for food service places and a lot of others as well.

Not super interesting.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

The fact that we have to make "wash your hands after using the bathroom" mandatory with signs in every single bathroom kinda explains how COVID spread so fast to begin with.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 29 points 12 hours ago

It's really the only way to guarantee clean hands.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

We have this in the gay community but not with hands

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