#working there was quite fun but the health concerns were borderline disgusting and plain disgusting

[merphus]

When I was working with cheese and raw/cooked/smoked meat at the deli counter of a grocery store, i was told to clean the knives and cutting boards we used in front of the customers once per day in the evening. Once. Sometimes the cheese knife was used for the cooked meat and the other way around. I had one bucket of soapy water for all the knives. Sometimes the scrub daddy was the same I had to use around lunch time to clean the knives/boards/counters in the kitchen. So there almost certainly already were bits and bacteria of raw meat and cheese and cooked meat on the scrub daddy. But depending on the manager of the day, I had to use the same one. So id have my soapy water bucket, the contaminated scrub daddy and some good will. Id clean my equipment as best as I could and then let some clean water run over it and then dry it with some paper towels. There were so many customers watching me do this and asking me to really make sure the clean running water got everywhere because they wouldn't want soapy cheese. Like. Dear customer. Two weeks ago I lost the tip of my middle finger probably in the cut up ham of another customer because I never got a safety training with our cutting machines and there are bits of raw chicken in my soap bucket, but sure, you dont want soap on your cheese.

people will complain about companies throwing out food then want food thrown out constantly and it's not adding up. today a customer was like "can you throw out this apple? it fell on the floor". bitch you're supposed to wash the produce at home anyway‼️‼️‼️ people act like the floor is lava at grocery stores when the rest of the store is just as unsanitary. like that apple would be equally as dirty if you put it on the conveyer belt which is covered and soaked in everything imaginable. yes i'm mad about the apple thing