Or been Notorious B.I.G.
Why not? Isn’t it full of cocaine, or was that just in the 80’s?
Seriously? :dubious: The germs could easily migrate into the sandwich, or from my fingers (after I rip the sticker off to eat the sandwich). Either way it’s unsanitary.
Seriously? :dubious: You know you don’t even need to touch the sticker, right? And have you checked to ensure the deli paper has been scrubbed down with anti-bacterial wipes before they handed it to you? Did you even bother to source the meat? THERE ARE GERMS EVERYWHERE! THEY’RE CRAWLING ON YOUR SKIN RIGHT NOW! GET THEM OFF!!!
This was the comparison done because it turned out to be real life: employees who wore gloves didn’t follow proper use, employees who had bare hands washed hands better. Yes, it’s not logical, but then, people aren’t logical. The study looked at how real people in real life behaved and came to the conclusion that it would give better results to have people bare-handed and drill them to wash their hands, then give them gloves and train them to correct use. I don’t know the detailed psychological reasons behind the behaviour, I only know the conclusion drawn.
Did you :
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[li]Pay with dirty, icky money using your bare hands[/li][li]Take the dirty, icky change from the cashier bare handed[/li][li]Grab your milkshake, again with your bare money-touching hands (!) [/li][li]Unwrap a straw (bare-handed again!)[/li][li]Then I bet you used the same hands that you touched that money with to put the naked straw into the milkshake :o[/li][li]Then you put that straw in your mouth![/li][/ul]
OMG You sick freak! 
Or are you going to tell me that you paid, got your change, took your milkshake into the bathroom with you, washed your hands, then put your straw in and drank it?
I’m going to put out a WAG here that I’m the only weird freak who’s germ-obsessed mother taught to unwrap and insert a straw into a drink without ever touching the bare straw?
In personal opinion, having worked with both food prep and with money, I’d rather have bare-handed people who wash their hands than people in gloves any day. The gloves just make the workers feel like they’re “safe” and then they do stupid(er) shit.
I’ve seen people do the straw wrap thing, although I still feel like that would put a person’s money-soiled hands closer to their lips than the fast-food worker’s gloved hands would ever get while making a milkshake at DQ.
I’m also amused by the people who wash their hands, then use a paper towel to open the bathroom door. In my office building, 3 floors have the standard bathroom configuration where the door is near the sinks and every door has a garbage can near it as a receptacle for these magical hand-protecting towels. On the bottom floor though, the bathroom is also the locker room for the gym. So after using the sink you have to wind your way through the locker room to get out. Apparently the germs fall off peoples’ hands during this walk because there is no garbage can by the door and I NEVER see people doing the paper towel trick on that floor.
If the biggest problem in your life is that some germs on a sticker might find their way through two to three layers of wax paper and infiltrate your Publix sub, I want to be you. But more importantly, how do you manage to fit through the doors of the Publix encased inside your protective bubble? And how do they get the unsanitary sandwich through the barrier anyway? :dubious: yourself.
There are like a billion bacteria in your intestines right now. Just to be safe, better scrub those out too. With like a brillo pad or steel wool.
I know a guy who flushes public toilets by hitting the handle with his shoe.
Yes, well done you, you’ve avoided all the nasty germs. Thanks for leaving the ones your dirty-ass shoe picked up for everyone else to touch.
Personal anecdote:
My husband and I went to a ball game where it was $1 hot dog day. We were about to get in line to get a hot dog, but stopped to watch the hot dog assembly guy. Actually, he was the put-the-hot-dog-in-the-foil-bag guy.
He had a hairnet on, and gloves on. He would pick up a bag, BLOW IN IT to open it up, and place the hotdog inside.
:eek:
We went to the other side of the stadium to get our hot dogs. And crossed our fingers.
I have never understood this belief that germs can walk from one location to another at speeds that, if scaled up to human size, would equal several hundred miles per hour.
Migrate through layers of paper? Anyway if you’re worried about the sticker, why not worry about the paper itself? People have probably touched it at some point in its existence…
This thread should be called “I’m a Big Fucking Pussy”. I used to work on food service equipment in restaurants/supermarket delis, and if you’re worried about a worker touching your food after handling money or putting a goddamn sticker on your sandwich wrapper, you’d shart through your nose if you knew what went on in the kitchens.
This is correct. Unless you have an open wound, the surface of gloves will be no cleaner than properly washed hands. It does make people feel better to see food preparers wearing gloves. At a Subway by me, the sandwich makers put on a fresh pair of gloves to make each sandwich. This practice would tend to be very clean, and might outperform handwashing, but I don’t know of any health codes that require it.
Basically, a glove can come into contact with anything a bare hand can. It has no magical germ killing powers. So if the cook is picking his nose, it doesn’t really matter if he’s wearing gloves or not.
I know, right? And after another generation of this anti-bacterial-ewww-you-touched-me-everything-has-cooties nonsense, the sicknesses people will come down with will be epic because they’ve never been exposed to anything as horrific as actually touching money.
How people managed to survive before we had OCD clean freaks making a big deal about everything is beyond me.
I never use a straw with my milkshakes, as I always request a spoon which is never wrapped. DQ straws tend to collapse as I seem to be able to pull a lot of inches of mercury.
Dude, I have OCD, and I think these people here are a bunch of freaks. germs migrating through wax paper…
You know, I just breathed…oh god, help me, GERMS!!! :eek:
People sensitive to bare hands touching food should never ever eat sushi, then. They squeeze the rice right in the ball of their hands. Oh noes!