Why oh why on why do food-handlers who wear latex gloves keep them on when handling everything and anything else, including money and the cash register?
Why wear the gloves at all? What's the point? I know it's a wacky way-out notion, but, uhh, aren't the gloves supposed to serve as some sort of protective barrier, sort of like, y'know, them there condom things we hear so much about?
Or are these food-handlers just protecting their delicate digits from sandwich slop, money muck, and cash register crud? Are they like an ex-employer of mine, who kept a box of tissues by every doorknob in the posh townhouse that served as his office, and even by his own private telephone, so he wouldn't have to come into contact with germs, including his own?
If I look down at the food-handlers' feet, will I see sandals worn with socks? I don't think I could handle two indiscretions simultaneously.
What's the pernt, Edith? Isn't the purpose being defeated?
fresh-baked at 08:48 AMDon, is that "Wash your hands, despite using the Ban deodorant"?
Offered by: Thomas on August 2, 2002 7:07 AMIt's all basically for show, como "Lave sus manos despues de usande el bano."
Offered by: Don on August 2, 2002 3:18 AMI used to live in a state that required separate people to handle food and money. That is why drive-thrus have two windows, because the hands that touch money can't touch food in those states. When I moved to Arizona, and watched in HORROR as someone took my cash, made change, and then wrapped my sandwich, I swore off fast food in Arizona.
Ten years later, we still don't have that good law here. I guess the tradition of the guy driving the chuck wagon along with the wagon train doesn't carry over to latex gloves or separate tasks. In fact, I don't think it contains even a spark of sanitary considerations.
Pass the beans...
Offered by: Desert Mermaid on August 1, 2002 9:05 PMLOL As would I - you know the look I mean - more of one that "I'm not doing anything wrong, and how dare you say that I am!"
Offered by: Zaldor on August 1, 2002 5:12 PMBut Zaldor, I would like to have them fired. (Insert evil laughter here)
Offered by: Jason on August 1, 2002 4:22 PMI agree with ya Jodi - I see it all the time, and it makes me sick how many people don't care about the passing of germs when preparing food. And of course, if you happen to say something to these people, they get offended and look at you like you're trying to get them fired!
Offered by: Zaldor on August 1, 2002 3:44 PMI don't think the fine folks at Subway operate on the same level of logic as the rest of us. If they did, they wouldn't ask me if I want cheese on my Italian BMT. Provolone, people, provolone. That's the way the world works, and if you can't handle that, you shouldn't be pursuing a career in the field of sandwichry.
Offered by: Jess on August 1, 2002 2:39 PMI mailed Anthrax to Columbia House Music Club. I had already completed my purchase obligation and didn't want that CD selection of the month...
Offered by: Thomas on August 1, 2002 2:09 PMNo Socks, No Sandals, No SERVICE! (That's what I say.)
I'm with you on the glove thing. Back when I was a sandwich professional (tee-hee) We were told to take the gloves off when done making a sandwich, and put on a new pair when you start again.
I did, of course - but I was just about the only person on the staff who didn't wear them all the time. Cleaning the grill, handling cash, wiping their hair, picking their noses, taking a smoke break, going to the bathroom, changing their oil, packaging and mailing anthrax to prominent liberal politicial figures...
Anyway, you get what I'm saying. And I agree with you.
Offered by: aaron on August 1, 2002 11:01 AMWhat's wrong with socks with sandals? hehe. Psst I defined w00t! for you... :)
Offered by: Jason on August 1, 2002 9:57 AMBeing someone who has worked in the food industry in the past...I can tell you a few things about said latex gloves.
Food chains use the gloves to ease the minds of the consumer...really. If they were used as they are supposed to be used, you would see the person preparing your food putting them on ONLY to prepare the food, and not while fixing their hair net.
Also, the gloves themselves can be more dangerous when they are used all the time because the hands sweat inside the gloves and cause bacteria to grow....yummy.
Hold the onions please!
Offered by: cmiper on August 1, 2002 9:23 AMThey wear gloves because a law somewhere states they have to. This law DOESN'T say they have to be careful or even tidy, just be clad in rubber gloves.
I'd be happy with robots myself...
Offered by: Thomas on August 1, 2002 9:04 AM
