My coworker freaks at farts. But not for the bad smell, but because, you know, I got lots of germs in my gut. Then I fart, and they all cling to the molecules that make up the odor. Some travel through my tighty whities, through my denim jeans, avoid getting stuck to the fabric on the chair seat, travel 15 feet thorugh the air to his nose, and voila! Poor guy is doomed.
I don’t know man. I’ve been downwind from a couple of rippers that shriveled my nose hairs and I could swear they could give someone the croup, at the very least.
hmm…“not logical”, “psychological” reasons…
why try to be so profound?
There’s a simple explanation for this. A very simple, very logical explanation…
No “psychological” analysis is necessary.
People who are not wearing gloves wash their hands more often, because * their hands are sticky* from the juice of all those pickles, tomatos and olives they handle.
Wearing gloves is just stupid. Like the rules of airline security–nobody has the guts to say out loud what we all know: it’s just for show, and provides no real benefits.
Unless the food server wore the same gloves to use the toilet they do serve the purpose health departments intended for them too. To protect us from the food servers fecal matter, specifically and any other way they might have shed virus or bacteria to their own hands before going back to work and touching the food. I imagine health departments all agree that regular, effective hand washing is far and away more beneficial than glove wearing - but they insist on the gloves because not everyone follows the hand washing rules as well as they should. The gloves are an easy way to verify the food server isn’t serving their own fecal bacteria to customers without having to check the surveillance video to ensure that they washed their hands or how well they washed them. I would prefer obsessive hand washing too, but if its a given it won’t be enforced by the restaurant manager then it is hard to expect the health department to have a hand washing inspector at every food serving establishment that exists. They can check for bare-skin contact with food, however, at several dozen or more places per day per inspector by just observing the hands of the server. It isn’t a perfect solution it is a last ditch effort to keep shit out of our food.
That is the big if, however. If the food workers feel that the gloves are magic, then they won’t change them.
There’s only one flaw in your theory: the people who are wearing gloves put the gloves on with those same hands. Therefore, the outside of the gloves are contaminated as well. Oops.
It’s far from a perfect solution. In fact, it’s scarcely a solution at all. This was largely implemented because of the whole “anti-bacterial-ewww-you-touched-me-everything-has-cooties” people I mentioned earlier. When I started working in foodservice we didn’t need to wear gloves, and nobody cared. Now if you don’t immediately make a move towards the box people get freaked, yet they think nothing of the fact that I grab the gloves with the same hands they wouldn’t DARE allow to touch their food. Paranoia and self-delusion runs deep.
Incidentally, it is OK to hit Enter periodically while you’re composing a post. It makes it much easier to read.
Freemasons run the country!
Actually, I’m rather looking forward to the massive die-off that will ensue.
When we grubbies inherit the earth, I plan to use the knowledge I’ve gleaned from various apocalyptic threads on SDMB to loot massive quantities of guns and barricade myself in a Costco thus guaranteeing my continued survival.
I can’t decide which annoys me more: (a) people who insist on and/or are comforted by stupid “sanitation” policies like this; or (b) the illogical and inconsistent application of such policies once they exist, to the extent that they have the opposite effect that they’re intended to.
Oh well, guess it’s just another day of hating everyone.
The health department is also aware of that. Their studies indicate that contaminating your own glove while putting it on is still a far lower risk of transmission than just going un-gloved. Similarly studies showed that gloves that had tears in them still did more to prevent transmissions than nothing at all.
You can be a pompous shit about my writing style in some attempt to make your point about food sanitation all the stronger. I will settle for being right.
I wasn’t trying to make my point stronger. I was trying to get you to hit the enter button so your posts were readable. It worked. Thank you.
I got home from work yesterday and was just about to start making dinner when I realized I still had dried blood from a dog’s burst anal gland abscess under one of my finger nails.
I washed my hands and ate my damned sandwich like a grown-up.
What kind of job do you have that you are farting enough to get the attention of a co-worker? It’s not the germs that would freak me out, but the fact that I’m being made aware of someone else’s gas problem. I’m a fart prude, I guess, because I could not deal with a co-worker who let them fly.:eek:
What is the alternative? Hold them in?
At work? Uh, yes! Unless you work in outdoors or have your own office, you shouldn’t be ripping farts all day long. [George Costanza]We’re living in a society here![/George Costanza]
All day long?
One little “toot” a week is about my average. In a office where it’s pretty quite (good sound insulation), that “toot” stands out, so to speak.
You can’t hold in one fart a week? You’re supposed to save them up and let them rip at the urinal, so other co-workers can complain about you farting in the bathroom.
And risk diverticulitis?
“Hold it in and bear the pain, let it out and bear the shame!”
I can live with shame.
You could just leave the room, and avoid both the off chance of diverticulitis and being gross. Maybe I should start a new thread: Is it okay to fart at work?
Nothing better after a hard day of work than black pudding.