• dan
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    1 year ago

    True. Chef in a restaurant? No problem.

    But expecting minimum wage workers doing mindnumbing factory work to do that perfectly every time and never cut corners without significant oversight seems… unlikely.

    Also let’s think about why they’re not wearing gloves. Do you think it’s for any reason other than cost cutting?

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      1 year ago

      Minimum wage workers doing mind numbing factory work also do dumb shit wearing gloves like scratch their face or tie their shoes, regularly.

      Source: was a floor manager during covid.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah but… remove your gloves before leaving shop floor, put on gloves when entering shop floor is much easier to enforce than “did you wash your hands” - you can catch them blue handed (or not blue handed, as the case may be).

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          If they glove up then scratch their face, those gloves are now contaminated.

          Gloves are only good practice if you can lay in all the surrounding good practices and if you can do that then you can probably sort out good hand washing practice and the real world difference outside of a clean room or surgical theater is pretty much negligible.

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            1 year ago

            But if you don’t glove up and scratch your face, your fingers are contaminated too.

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      1 year ago

      There are a LOT of minimum wage workers in restaurants too. You say “chef” and it conjures images of some fancy restaurant. But why is a fancy chef more able to wash his hands than a fast food employee? It’s not a high art.

      I think expecting every food worker to wear gloves is silly and unnecessary. And assuming it’s just cheaping out when they don’t wear gloves… wow that’s just crazy talk IMO. Have you ever worked food service?

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      1 year ago

      Not wearing gloves could be a tactile thing. I wear gloves when cleanup would be a real hassle without them (wood finishing, working with epoxies), but I prefer not to when possible because I can’t feel what I’m doing as well.

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        1 year ago

        I mean yeah same, but shoving a fistful of cheese onto a slice of bread 4000 times? Not quite the same!

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      They’re making sandwiches, not scrubbing in for surgery.

      Do you fully scrub your hands every time you prepare food? Every time you open a packet of crisps, every time you eat a cookie? Or is just food that’s been touched by stupid poor people that you don’t want to eat?

      You sound like you need to get over yourself.