NTers who have worked in food places . . . y'all got any stories?

People in nursing homes are there for a reason. If they're cranky you gotta understand why, see it from their point of view. Contaminating anyone's food for any reason, even if you're driven to your angriest, is as foul as it gets falling just short of knowingly passing on STDs.

:rollin @ comparing food contamination to knowingly passing on STDs/STIs. Contaminating someones food is gross and messed up, but its not just short of passing along a potentially fatal illness, come on man :lol
 
 
People in nursing homes are there for a reason. If they're cranky you gotta understand why, see it from their point of view. Contaminating anyone's food for any reason, even if you're driven to your angriest, is as foul as it gets falling just short of knowingly passing on STDs.
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@ comparing food contamination to knowingly passing on STDs/STIs. Contaminating someones food is gross and messed up, but its not just short of passing along a potentially fatal illness, come on man
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When you're dealing with a demographic whose immune system is already compromised, I don't think it's the worst comparison.

Elderly people (particularly institutionalized elderly people) don't bounce back from serious infections quite like the rest of the general population.
 
I just saw that checkers video last night smh. I have zero trust in most fast food joints I visit. I try to be all friendly and **** in the drive thru in hopes that my food won't have jizz, pubes, spit in it :x

Feel like I'm cheating death/illness every time I eat fast food..
 
Eat at spots in which you can see the food being prepared for you.
 
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People in nursing homes are there for a reason. If they're cranky you gotta understand why, see it from their point of view. Contaminating anyone's food for any reason, even if you're driven to your angriest, is as foul as it gets falling just short of knowingly passing on STDs.

:rollin @ comparing food contamination to knowingly passing on STDs/STIs. Contaminating someones food is gross and messed up, but its not just short of passing along a potentially fatal illness, come on man :lol
When you're dealing with a demographic whose immune system is already compromised, I don't think it's the worst comparison.

Elderly people (particularly institutionalized elderly people) don't bounce back from serious infections quite like the rest of the general population.

Yeah, but you can't compare that to knowingly paasing on HIV, Herpes, or any other STI. Not the same thing at all. Its a terrible comparison. :lol

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People in nursing homes are there for a reason. If they're cranky you gotta understand why, see it from their point of view. Contaminating anyone's food for any reason, even if you're driven to your angriest, is as foul as it gets falling just short of knowingly passing on STDs.
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@ comparing food contamination to knowingly passing on STDs/STIs. Contaminating someones food is gross and messed up, but its not just short of passing along a potentially fatal illness, come on man
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When you're dealing with a demographic whose immune system is already compromised, I don't think it's the worst comparison.

Elderly people (particularly institutionalized elderly people) don't bounce back from serious infections quite like the rest of the general population.
Yeah, but you can't compare that to knowingly paasing on HIV, Herpes, or any other STI. Not the same thing at all. Its a terrible comparison.
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Yes I can, actually. The transmission rates for those diseases are lower than what the media/medical community would lead you to believe. In reality you have about a 4% chance of contracting HIV from unprotected vaginal sex with someone that's HIV positive.  It's just that scare tactics work, so they've been exploited in order to lower its prevalence. An institutionalized elderly person probably has a higher mortality rate from E. coli and other forms of food poisoning than that figure.  But even then, whether you think the comparison is poor or good doesn't really matter.  Both acts are despicable.  

I'm an RN that works primarily with the elderly, if that matters.
 
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Yes I can, actually. The transmission rates for those diseases are lower than what the media/medical community would lead you to believe. In reality you have about a 4% chance of contracting HIV from unprotected vaginal sex with someone that's HIV positive.  It's just that scare tactics work, so they've been exploited in order to lower its prevalence. An institutionalized elderly person probably has a higher mortality rate from E. coli and other forms of food poisoning than that figure.  But even then, whether you think the comparison is poor or good doesn't really matter.  Both acts are despicable.  

I'm an RN that works primarily with the elderly, if that matters.

You can, but that doesn't make the comparison valid, and practicing medicine doesn't give you a license to make such terrible comparisons. In no way is food contamination in any way comparable to PURPOSEFULLY INFECTING PEOPLE WITH STIs. Jesus Christ. No one mentioned transmission rates or the likelihood of contracting HIV during vaginal intercourse. There are many routes of transmission -- sharing needles, exchange of bodily fluids, etc. that fall outside of the bounds of intercourse. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the comparison of food contamination to purposefully transmitting STIs. There is no comparison. If you seriously think food contamination is in any way comparable to the purposeful transmission of a disease like syphilis, you should not be practicing medicine.

No one is arguing that both acts are wrong and gross. But you're really suggesting that the guy who spits on a burger is comparable to the HIV-pos guy who purposefully has unprotected sex with multiple partners, or the guy that uses the same needle multiple times, infecting countless people?

I'm glad you work with the elderly. At least they don't have a lot of time left to be subjected to your...beliefs.
 
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Had an old coworker who used to be a supervisor at a McDonald's. Never get anything out from McCafe, she said the machine that makes the drinks are dirty as hell inside. Like days worth of old beverage residue that is left while coming out. Also, was covering a shift at another store one time. Seen dude at register grab money from a dude who sneezed in his hand then grab the cup for the next customer, around the rim & partially inside, without washing his hands before doing so. Essentially that person had germs from the money & previous customer's sneeze all in their coffee. I Never go to that particular Starbucks again [emoji]128531[/emoji]
 
You can, but that doesn't make the comparison valid, and practicing medicine doesn't give you a license to make such terrible comparisons. In no way is food contamination in any way comparable to PURPOSEFULLY INFECTING PEOPLE WITH STIs. Jesus Christ. No one mentioned transmission rates or the likelihood of contracting HIV during vaginal intercourse. There are many routes of transmission -- sharing needles, exchange of bodily fluids, etc. that fall outside of the bounds of intercourse. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the comparison of food contamination to purposefully transmitting STIs. There is no comparison. If you seriously think food contamination is in any way comparable to the purposeful transmission of a disease like syphilis, you should not be practicing medicine.

No one is arguing that both acts are wrong and gross. But you're really suggesting that the guy who spits on a burger is comparable to the HIV-pos guy who purposefully has unprotected sex with multiple partners, or the guy that uses the same needle multiple times, infecting countless people?

I'm glad you work with the elderly. At least they don't have a lot of time left to be subjected to your...beliefs.
Ever heard of meningitis? It can spread through saliva combined with infected viruses and fungi. 70% of meningitis patients are 60 or older. 12% of the cases are fatal and 20% who do survive suffer some sort of long-term effect like brain damage or hearing loss. You don't have to come into contact with someone who has meningitis to contract it. Dude who spit in that elderly person's food is wild reckless. He could've given it to that lady, or maybe mono or hepatitis. But hey, stupid comparison, right?
 
 
Yes I can, actually. The transmission rates for those diseases are lower than what the media/medical community would lead you to believe. In reality you have about a 4% chance of contracting HIV from unprotected vaginal sex with someone that's HIV positive.  It's just that scare tactics work, so they've been exploited in order to lower its prevalence. An institutionalized elderly person probably has a higher mortality rate from E. coli and other forms of food poisoning than that figure.  But even then, whether you think the comparison is poor or good doesn't really matter.  Both acts are despicable.  

I'm an RN that works primarily with the elderly, if that matters.
You can, but that doesn't make the comparison valid, and practicing medicine doesn't give you a license to make such terrible comparisons. In no way is food contamination in any way comparable to PURPOSEFULLY INFECTING PEOPLE WITH STIs. Jesus Christ. No one mentioned transmission rates or the likelihood of contracting HIV during vaginal intercourse. There are many routes of transmission -- sharing needles, exchange of bodily fluids, etc. that fall outside of the bounds of intercourse. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the comparison of food contamination to purposefully transmitting STIs. There is no comparison. If you seriously think food contamination is in any way comparable to the purposeful transmission of a disease like syphilis, you should not be practicing medicine.

No one is arguing that both acts are wrong and gross. But you're really suggesting that the guy who spits on a burger is comparable to the HIV-pos guy who purposefully has unprotected sex with multiple partners, or the guy that uses the same needle multiple times, infecting countless people?

I'm glad you work with the elderly. At least they don't have a lot of time left to be subjected to your...beliefs.
I think the real problem is that this argument is a really stupid pissing contest that has no actual importance inside of this discussion.  I regret ever engaging in it at this point.  
 
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I worked at KFC in 11th grade.

I dropped a "fresh" rack of chicken right out of the oven. **** was burning hot and the heat was getting through the cheap *** oven mitts they had.

Chicken fell, manager came over yelling. Told me to pick the chicken up. Then he placed it back on the pan and put it back in the oven for another 5 minutes.


Told the customers that we were working on a "fresh" batch of chicken and it would be a 5 minute wait.



I ended up quitting the job a couple of weeks later. Haven't been back to a KFC since :x
 
Worked at a grocery store food area. Pretty tame for the most part. We pigged out on the food we were going to eventually throw away, even made extra food we knew weren't gonna sale just so we could eat it :lol One dude never wore gloves to make anything. Customers would pick from the food bar for "samples" ignoring the sign to ask for help, cats would leave the food out if no one saw it :lol Most things we did was short orders if they people were being rude and a pain or tried to pull one over on us to get a discount.
 
You can, but that doesn't make the comparison valid, and practicing medicine doesn't give you a license to make such terrible comparisons. In no way is food contamination in any way comparable to PURPOSEFULLY INFECTING PEOPLE WITH STIs. Jesus Christ. No one mentioned transmission rates or the likelihood of contracting HIV during vaginal intercourse. There are many routes of transmission -- sharing needles, exchange of bodily fluids, etc. that fall outside of the bounds of intercourse. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the comparison of food contamination to purposefully transmitting STIs. There is no comparison. If you seriously think food contamination is in any way comparable to the purposeful transmission of a disease like syphilis, you should not be practicing medicine.

No one is arguing that both acts are wrong and gross. But you're really suggesting that the guy who spits on a burger is comparable to the HIV-pos guy who purposefully has unprotected sex with multiple partners, or the guy that uses the same needle multiple times, infecting countless people?

I'm glad you work with the elderly. At least they don't have a lot of time left to be subjected to your...beliefs.
Ever heard of meningitis? It can spread through saliva combined with infected viruses and fungi. 70% of meningitis patients are 60 or older. 12% of the cases are fatal and 20% who do survive suffer some sort of long-term effect like brain damage or hearing loss. You don't have to come into contact with someone who has meningitis to contract it. Dude who spit in that elderly person's food is wild reckless. He could've given it to that lady, or maybe mono or hepatitis. But hey, stupid comparison, right?
Please compare those stats to the many patients that contract STIs in retirement homes, hospices, and other inpatient living facilities, which are a hotbed for transmission.

Its a stupid comparison that should have never been made. Period.
 
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In n Out is probably one of the best fast food joints to work at. They pay is good and you get fed during lunch.

I worked there during my high school days and it was great. Employees, managers and even Store managers were cool.

We never did anything disgusting because we dont roll like that. One thing we do hate is picky people and their picky orders.

I remember this one dude used to roll in there (he was a dental assistant) 3 times out of the week to each lunch. 2 of those times he never had money so he always asked if he can "have a hamburger today and he'll gladly pay on tuesday". Manager was cool so he allowed it. But his order was just ridiculous.

Off the top of my head, he used to order: A double double with 3 pieces of lettuce, light spread with light mustard, meat slightly well done, fries slightly well done too. It was mad annoying for someone who isnt paying.

Another person used to always come in at about 9 pm and order 15 fries............................... FOR HER DOGS.

Depending on the location you worked at, customers were annoying for certain things. Example,

I worked in the city of Burbank and in the City of Van Nuys (panorama city to be exact)

Burbank was full of Armenians and Persian people. They ordered the spread by the pound, always asking for extra spread on their burger and on the side. Back then, we had to place the spread in a cup, now they have them in individual packs.

Van Nuys (panorama City) was full of mexicans (Im mexican) and they used to ask for those yellow chillies by the jar. We used to pre-pack those too, 2-3 chillies per little cup. People used to come up and ask for 10 cups at a time. Sometimes, they'd send one of their children to get more.

Again, we never did anything disgusting at In N Out, everything is truly fresh and nothing is frozen.

Tomatoes were cut every morning and through out the day.
Onions were cut and chopped every morning.
Lettuce is hand leafed every morning.
Potatoes are pealed every day.
Shake machines were taken apart and cleaned out every night.
Soda machines were also taken apart and cleaned out every night.

Bathrooms, rookie has to clean them and keep them fresh every 30 to an hour. After closing, a cleaning crew comes in and cleans the entire place up.

So if anyone ever says In n Out did them wrong, they're probably lying.
 
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