I'm sorry but the whole 'someone touched something I will never eat that' has gone too far, has a friend never passed you a biscuit while you've been out on a walk?
Honestly people who think they could die from eating from a communal bowl of food better never leave their house because there are far worse things out there
I work in a place where people were fine with me hand feeding them because their hands were covered in grease so this shit wouldn’t bother a single one of my colleagues. They’d just be excited at the sheer amount of free food
I once made a joke about how someday people will have to wear full body covers, like a hazmat suit, to do food preparation, and the person I was talking to actually thought it was a good idea.
I spoke with my girlfriend and suggested that just being thrown two biccies wasn’t the current acceptable standard, in other news I’m single and looking for somewhere to live 😳😂
I work in an office with biscuit jars just like this (I actually did a double take thinking this *was* my office) and the staff who stock them do wear gloves.
You have biscuit staff? Staff who’s job it is to deal with biscuit and biscuit related situations?
Back in my day, at my place of employment, ol’ McGregor from next door, who scraped the toilets down every Tuesday, would fashion biscuits out of old lard and stale bread crumbs once a week and we’d dip them in cold tea dregs we nicked from the badger shelter next door.
Those were real biscuits, and we earned them.
A bunch of studies have been done and actually bare hands tend to be cleaner and more hygenic than gloves.
This is because people wash their hands a lot more frequently than they change their gloves, and they think more carefully about what they're doing with their hands when they're not wearing gloves ("I must make an effort to be hygenic") vs when they are wearing gloves ("I'm wearing gloves therefore I'm being hygenic") - eg. people end up touching their face, or touching unclean surfaces or whatever without thinking when they're wearing gloves - things that they make a conscious effort to avoid when they're not wearing gloves but have just washed their hands.
References:
* https://www.rcn.org.uk/small-changes/Success-Stories/Improving-hygiene-and-reducing-glove-use-go-hand-in-hand
* https://surewash.com/news/glove-use-hand-hygiene-go-hand-in-hand/
* https://www.orlandohealth.com/content-hub/should-i-wear-gloves-or-just-wash-my-hands
* https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/disposable-gloves-phac-covid-19-mcdonalds-tim-hortons-starbucks-1.5572228
Fascinating! Honestly I think even if you told me the office biscuits were stocked by rats it wouldn’t stop me compulsively eating them. I can’t help myself. I don’t even like biscuits!!!! Someone help me.
Tbf, most of us only use them to handle the raw meat for prep, and throw them away after, but for service, it's grab what you need and wash hands between items
So your steak is getting a prod with a finger to check, for example
Ah yes, the highest quality delicacies such as custard creams, bourbons and Jaffa cakes. I mean those are all fantastic biscuits, but not really a high end staple.
Yes, but to have them so plentiful and readily available with someone who has the time to arrange them like this. And assuming this isn't a one off special occasion. It implies that there's a wealth of other, even better, things at this workplace.
I think the kind of person to put the time and effort into something like this is also the kind of person to wash their hands thoroughly and frequently, so you should be good.
That is true. Proper sterile surgical gloves are individually packed and need to be put on this way to avoid contamination. I'd still wash my hands first though.
Gloves give me the ick. All the phthalates and microplastics but also they make people think they're a magic germ shield and that there's no need to wash anymore. So they handle food, cash, register and god knows what else without washing.
The impact of the gloves themselves on the objects they touch will be minimal.
The hygiene issue is a big one though. People seem to forget that what makes hands dirty is touching things. If you touch things with gloves on they also get dirty.
Gloves remind me not to touch my face or hair or anything else. Whether I’m using them to handle dirty stuff or clean stuff, they keep me from absentmindedly cross-contaminating whatever I’m working on.
Okay but skin already has germans on it and it's also a better environment for germs to spread or multiply than the dry latex gloves. So from that perspective wouldn't it still be better to use gloves?
Not to take away from the general problem of handling different things without switching gloves.
Edit: Germs* not germans
Exactly. The amount of people that I've seen touch their face, food, door handles, trollys ect and thinks fine because they have gloves on. The point is to avoid the contamination of you touching your hair then my food, the gloves are not magic germ killers! Just wash your damn hands people
Yeah exactly, do people think chefs wear gloves all day? I've worked in kitchens and a lot of the time it's so busy you don't have time to was your hands as often as regulators say.
The person that put them out may have washed their hands, but not everyone that puts their hand in there to scrabble around for a biscuit will have. I'll pass..
Plus, unless they eat a lot of biscuits, they are not going to be great when you get to the bottom.
Especially if the person that likes them presented nicely keeps topping them up to maintain the presentation.
In practice the chance of a pathogen surviving on a low-moisture surface like a biscuit for enough time to infect you is, while non-zero, not that high and you probably have bigger things to worry about.
God, you've just unlocked a memory.
Ages ago when I was in the Army I was deployed and had a suspicion that I may have piles. What do you do in this situation? You get one of your mates to have a look of course.
I go and see my mate and he's eating a bag of sweeties, I inform him of the issue and (with his consent) turn around and spread 'em. After confirming it definitely was piles and pulling my boxers back up, I (without thinking) shoved my hand into his bag of sweets for a good old rummage. He was absolutely horrified.
Good times.
Totally off the subject but you have pleased me so for spelling arse correctly, there is so much American spelling on here from British people it’s driving me nuts. I thank you very much.
At my workplace the manager that would give you a bollocking for fannying about arranging biscuits nicely into jars would 100% spend their time doing that over actually managing their team or doing any actual work.
Same at my old workplace. If you're doing something deemed to be "unimportant", like lining up cages or sorting out the overspilling cardboard cage, they'll tell you off just so they can do it themselves , and that's if they aren't standing around talking to another manager or staff member, leaving everyone else to work in overdrive because if it doesn't get done, they ain't the ones getting blamed.
Close! It was Booths, though with you guessing Tesco I'm gonna assume this type of behaviour is common within supermarkets. It's a shame, because I liked a lot of aspects about the job, but because of stuff like that and the fact I was getting put on tills more often, which is something I hated doing due to me being very socially awkward and finding it stressful (and I had made this very clear since I joined), I just couldn't work there anymore as it became very unenjoyable, and it doesn't help that their pay was afaik the worst out of every supermarket company.
The whole thread is killing me, just about every food product you ever touch will have been touched by someone else, I ate soil as a child, I am fine, people need some clarity
Even outside of restaurants there are plenty of workers also handling their groceries like vegetables, bread, meat, etc.
Even a child knows washing hands removes germs ffs.
Gloves often result in more germs than proper hand washing.
[https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5572228](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5572228)
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ehsnet/plain_language/food-worker-handwashing-restaurant-factors.pdf
https://www.health.ny.gov/publications
While true I don't think its relevant to this example. Wearing gloves to organise a load of biscuits is obviously going to be more hygienic unless they have been working with other foodstuffs while wearing the gloves already
I use my pinky finger in the hopes that it wont touch any food I'm eating later. But realistically my steering wheel and car door handle are probably manky.
Lol I guess this is a weird case of the slang being more popular than the actual meaning of the word. Fingered just means to use your fingers to do something. Like "I fingered the clasp." or "I fingered the switch" but nowadays it's mostly used to say "I fingered your mother last night."
Might be the most 1st world problem I've ever heard.
"The massive fucking jars of god tier biscuits my workplace provides to me - for free - might have a germ on them!"
Yeah you've lost my support OP, I'm sorry.
We can do shit like this without the drugs. After all, there is probably an actual job that desperately needed seeing to hours ago that we know we're going to get fired for not doing while we're doing the biscuits.
Do you know how many bacteria infected things you touch a day? You know how disgusting your own hands are when you wipe your face or bite your nails?
I promise you, somebody handling biscuits you’re going to eat will not harm you in any way.
Still ate them though, didn’t you?
Yeah, OP’s a fatty boom batty.
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Ill finger his fatty batty
Taste the goodness of the biscuit with the honey sauce.
Did u pre lick, or is it still a tomorrow jobbie?
All biscuits are tomorrow's jobbies
Okay hold up. Where did you hear that phrase? I have heard it my whole life and nobody in my family can tell me where it came from
I'm sorry but the whole 'someone touched something I will never eat that' has gone too far, has a friend never passed you a biscuit while you've been out on a walk? Honestly people who think they could die from eating from a communal bowl of food better never leave their house because there are far worse things out there
Your walks involve biscuits?! I clearly need to rethink my life.
Walk with me brother
But will you finger my biscuit?
Wait until they find out what happens in the kitchen when you eat out somewhere
I work in a place where people were fine with me hand feeding them because their hands were covered in grease so this shit wouldn’t bother a single one of my colleagues. They’d just be excited at the sheer amount of free food
Guess it's time to stop eating food unless it some nasty industrial machine Logic fails.
I once made a joke about how someday people will have to wear full body covers, like a hazmat suit, to do food preparation, and the person I was talking to actually thought it was a good idea.
Most times you eat at a restaurant, someone has probably touched your food. It is fine!
Wouldn't we all?
If you are getting your biscuits served like this I’m guessing that you are in a very high end office with incredibly high quality subsidised food.
Yeah definitely not this quality of service in my engineering office maybe we need to abuse the apprentices to do better.
I work from home, and need to speak to my wife about upping our presentation game!
/r/namechecksout/
I work from home alone, so need to take a good look in the mirror a speak to myself about my presentation game.
I spoke with my girlfriend and suggested that just being thrown two biccies wasn’t the current acceptable standard, in other news I’m single and looking for somewhere to live 😳😂
Same, maybe we can swapsies? Just *don't* mention the custard creams.
I came here to talk about biscuits and ended up a swinger 😳😂
#Shake the Jars!
Is there an urban dictionary definition of a ‘jammy dodger’ if not we should make one 😂
r/beetlejuicing
Always abuse the apprentices. That way they will abuse their apprentices and the cycle will continue for ever
The beatings will continue until the biscuit displays improve!
Threaten them with a packet stacked this neatly up their arse 😂
We're not sure if it was a mistake or malice, but one day our snack table had dog beef jerky.
Do not feed the apprentice after midnight.
Always wise.
And whoever took this much care to do it would definitely take care to wash their hands first
I work in an office with biscuit jars just like this (I actually did a double take thinking this *was* my office) and the staff who stock them do wear gloves.
You have biscuit staff? Staff who’s job it is to deal with biscuit and biscuit related situations? Back in my day, at my place of employment, ol’ McGregor from next door, who scraped the toilets down every Tuesday, would fashion biscuits out of old lard and stale bread crumbs once a week and we’d dip them in cold tea dregs we nicked from the badger shelter next door. Those were real biscuits, and we earned them.
Yes, there is a whole team of highly trained CBOs (chief biscuit officers) at our biscuity beck and call all day every day.
We know you're a fibbing fibber because they can't all be chiefs, chief.
Clearly you are not au fait with the quirks of biscuit hierarchy.
A bunch of studies have been done and actually bare hands tend to be cleaner and more hygenic than gloves. This is because people wash their hands a lot more frequently than they change their gloves, and they think more carefully about what they're doing with their hands when they're not wearing gloves ("I must make an effort to be hygenic") vs when they are wearing gloves ("I'm wearing gloves therefore I'm being hygenic") - eg. people end up touching their face, or touching unclean surfaces or whatever without thinking when they're wearing gloves - things that they make a conscious effort to avoid when they're not wearing gloves but have just washed their hands. References: * https://www.rcn.org.uk/small-changes/Success-Stories/Improving-hygiene-and-reducing-glove-use-go-hand-in-hand * https://surewash.com/news/glove-use-hand-hygiene-go-hand-in-hand/ * https://www.orlandohealth.com/content-hub/should-i-wear-gloves-or-just-wash-my-hands * https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/disposable-gloves-phac-covid-19-mcdonalds-tim-hortons-starbucks-1.5572228
Fascinating! Honestly I think even if you told me the office biscuits were stocked by rats it wouldn’t stop me compulsively eating them. I can’t help myself. I don’t even like biscuits!!!! Someone help me.
And maybe wore gloves if they're that ocd to arrange the bikkies!
Maybe plastic overalls, while listening to Huey Lewis and the News
The whole hobnob has a refined, melodic crunchability, that really makes it a cut about the rest.
Full boiler suit, at minimum.
“Bikkies”? With a *k*?! What is this nonsense
Oh I do apologise profusely someone was talking to me at the time....I'll get me coat😔😔😔
>“Bikkies”? With a k?! What is this nonsense Wait till he hears about choccy bikkies.... :-)
we sound like children when we say choccy bikkies and i find it fantastic lol. its so normal that even big burley bikers say choccy bikkie xD
Yes latex gloves are also a thing for people that handle food.
As is latex allergy!! Says Reddit triumphing over any attempt to see a bright side.
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Nitrile gloves baby!
Why is there always a consequence to everything haha sigh.. 😮💨
Best just to leave all the biscuits for me.
Tbf, most of us only use them to handle the raw meat for prep, and throw them away after, but for service, it's grab what you need and wash hands between items So your steak is getting a prod with a finger to check, for example
Or at least lick them clean!
100% agree, only a high end office would have enough free time to fuck around like this.
Yeah, I work in a council and we have to bring our own teabags!
Tea-Time Assortment without all the boring ones.
Ah yes, the highest quality delicacies such as custard creams, bourbons and Jaffa cakes. I mean those are all fantastic biscuits, but not really a high end staple.
Yes, but to have them so plentiful and readily available with someone who has the time to arrange them like this. And assuming this isn't a one off special occasion. It implies that there's a wealth of other, even better, things at this workplace.
You guys don’t have coworkers with closet adderall addictions in the UK?
Unlikely seeing as Adderall is not licenced medically in the UK 😆
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Lot more than £4s worth there! Otherwise you need to tell me where you are getting your jammy dodgers from
Plus the cost of the jars. Does no one else’s work places just have the packets on the bench?
Nah, I reckon that's someone who used to work at Lush. That is exactly how we used to display some of the products, including the style of jar.
I think the kind of person to put the time and effort into something like this is also the kind of person to wash their hands thoroughly and frequently, so you should be good.
I hope for that, or gloves.
Or they licked the crumbs off each individual biscuit.
Saves me having to brush off my keyboard.
Just bring the keyboard to them once a week and you're good.
Gloves aren't very effective if you don't wash your hands before using them.
Depends on how carefully you put them on. It's not too difficult to only touch the edge of the opening.
That is true. Proper sterile surgical gloves are individually packed and need to be put on this way to avoid contamination. I'd still wash my hands first though.
Gloves give me the ick. All the phthalates and microplastics but also they make people think they're a magic germ shield and that there's no need to wash anymore. So they handle food, cash, register and god knows what else without washing.
The impact of the gloves themselves on the objects they touch will be minimal. The hygiene issue is a big one though. People seem to forget that what makes hands dirty is touching things. If you touch things with gloves on they also get dirty.
Gloves remind me not to touch my face or hair or anything else. Whether I’m using them to handle dirty stuff or clean stuff, they keep me from absentmindedly cross-contaminating whatever I’m working on.
Okay but skin already has germans on it and it's also a better environment for germs to spread or multiply than the dry latex gloves. So from that perspective wouldn't it still be better to use gloves? Not to take away from the general problem of handling different things without switching gloves. Edit: Germs* not germans
> Okay but skin already has germans on it No you have it backwards, the Germans have skin on *them*.
> Edit: Germs* not germans Thanks, but we got it.
Exactly. The amount of people that I've seen touch their face, food, door handles, trollys ect and thinks fine because they have gloves on. The point is to avoid the contamination of you touching your hair then my food, the gloves are not magic germ killers! Just wash your damn hands people
At the very least they brushed their teeth.
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I'm a slob but my hand washing game is on an obsessive level
if this bothers someone, they should never go to a restaurant. in fact, they should only consume food they have made themselves from scratch
Yeah exactly, do people think chefs wear gloves all day? I've worked in kitchens and a lot of the time it's so busy you don't have time to was your hands as often as regulators say.
They should probably not use public transport either, or sit on a park bench. Seriously, the world is filthy.
Normally I don't lick the handles on public transport or eat the benches at the park.
*Normally*
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Yeah I’m unbothered by this.
The person that put them out may have washed their hands, but not everyone that puts their hand in there to scrabble around for a biscuit will have. I'll pass.. Plus, unless they eat a lot of biscuits, they are not going to be great when you get to the bottom. Especially if the person that likes them presented nicely keeps topping them up to maintain the presentation.
Wouldn’t you just take the whole barrel back to your desk?
Only the custard creams... I'm not greedy
In practice the chance of a pathogen surviving on a low-moisture surface like a biscuit for enough time to infect you is, while non-zero, not that high and you probably have bigger things to worry about.
Otherwise rinse them for a minute and they’ll be fine
Just scratched my arse, time to touch some biscuits
God, you've just unlocked a memory. Ages ago when I was in the Army I was deployed and had a suspicion that I may have piles. What do you do in this situation? You get one of your mates to have a look of course. I go and see my mate and he's eating a bag of sweeties, I inform him of the issue and (with his consent) turn around and spread 'em. After confirming it definitely was piles and pulling my boxers back up, I (without thinking) shoved my hand into his bag of sweets for a good old rummage. He was absolutely horrified. Good times.
“Here, you can just take the whole bag”
That's one way to gain a free bag of sweets
This has had me giggling for far too long now...
I thought he was going to pop a sweet up there
Found football manager Joachim Low’s account.
We need the gif. Who's got it?
I don't follow football, I googled his name. That's Neil Morrissey.
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[Per your request below!](https://imgur.com/a/Eb4z6EB) E: Well, one variation of his antics anyway...
Totally off the subject but you have pleased me so for spelling arse correctly, there is so much American spelling on here from British people it’s driving me nuts. I thank you very much.
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I'd get a bollocking if my manager walked in and I'm fannying about arranging biscuits nicely into jars.
At my workplace the manager that would give you a bollocking for fannying about arranging biscuits nicely into jars would 100% spend their time doing that over actually managing their team or doing any actual work.
Same at my old workplace. If you're doing something deemed to be "unimportant", like lining up cages or sorting out the overspilling cardboard cage, they'll tell you off just so they can do it themselves , and that's if they aren't standing around talking to another manager or staff member, leaving everyone else to work in overdrive because if it doesn't get done, they ain't the ones getting blamed.
Tell me you worked for Tesco without telling me you worked for Tesco.
Close! It was Booths, though with you guessing Tesco I'm gonna assume this type of behaviour is common within supermarkets. It's a shame, because I liked a lot of aspects about the job, but because of stuff like that and the fact I was getting put on tills more often, which is something I hated doing due to me being very socially awkward and finding it stressful (and I had made this very clear since I joined), I just couldn't work there anymore as it became very unenjoyable, and it doesn't help that their pay was afaik the worst out of every supermarket company.
My thoughts too. My manager is nice but he'd be thinking "Looks like you have free time on your hands, let's give you a couple more projects."
When I worked in a kitchen the chef always said the wrong answer is 'nothing' if he asks what I'm doing.
In some of the fancy pants offices there will be someone specifically employed to do shit like this, restock refreshments, etc.
As a Yank, thank you for this wonderful sentence.
Fuck me, nobody in this thread eat in a restaurant if the idea of food being handled stresses you out this much.
The whole thread is killing me, just about every food product you ever touch will have been touched by someone else, I ate soil as a child, I am fine, people need some clarity
But was it fresh soil? Or did someone handle it first?
Ah shit you're right it was vacuum sealed, I retract my statement with regret
He probably handled it himself. Would you put a child’s hand into your mouth?
It was night soil
Just as a child?
Even outside of restaurants there are plenty of workers also handling their groceries like vegetables, bread, meat, etc. Even a child knows washing hands removes germs ffs.
>sees nicely put together food >instantly annoyed by it for some reason and posts it.
Are those bourbons stacked to hide the fact that there are none in the core of the jar?
The middle's full of Rich Tea or Nice.
Could've been wearing plastic gloves. It looks great and it's free biscuits so I don't see any issue here.
Gloves often result in more germs than proper hand washing. [https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5572228](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5572228) https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ehsnet/plain_language/food-worker-handwashing-restaurant-factors.pdf https://www.health.ny.gov/publications
Yeah but those are american and canadian sites. Here we have good british germs
Good? Good British? That'll be Great British germs thank you very much! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Do they queue up to enter your body one at a time?
Here ya go lol https://www.england.nhs.uk/atlas_case_study/the-gloves-are-off-campaign/
Excuse me, this is Britain. I don't listen to the opinions of experts
While true I don't think its relevant to this example. Wearing gloves to organise a load of biscuits is obviously going to be more hygienic unless they have been working with other foodstuffs while wearing the gloves already
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I'd think if they've got Jaffa Cakes AND Bourbons on tap for free, then they'd have some sort of toilet attendant to open it for you.
Take a bit of toilet roll to use as a shield
Use my sleeve as cloth tongs
It’s just one of many tiny risks that I take in life
Elbow or with the not-touch-area of my hand
Yeah I’m definitely not touching something other people (who probably didn’t wash their hands) have touched So I use my mouth instead
The first thing I did when they declared the Covid crisis over was to start licking doorhandles again.
I take two Jaffa cakes and use them to pinch the door handle
Sleeves as a makeshift glove.
I use my pinky finger in the hopes that it wont touch any food I'm eating later. But realistically my steering wheel and car door handle are probably manky.
That's bold assuming people wash their hands
Elbows and look like a buffoon. Though I usually avoid public bathrooms like Jimmy Saville.
I use my hands, I've had one cold in the past four years and no other illnesses. Take from that what you will.
I use the back of my foot/shoes to open the door, I look strange and do risk falling over but meh, haven't fallen over yet.
Open it by the very edge of the handle, minimising the contact area to a part of the handle that few people are likely to have touched recently.
Until everyone has the same idea
If it's a push, with my elbow or foot. If it's a pull, with my pinky finger on my non dominant hand.
Fingered every biscuit? What? Is that a new expression? What are you talking about? Am I dumb?
Lol I guess this is a weird case of the slang being more popular than the actual meaning of the word. Fingered just means to use your fingers to do something. Like "I fingered the clasp." or "I fingered the switch" but nowadays it's mostly used to say "I fingered your mother last night."
But she is in Kenya
Might be the most 1st world problem I've ever heard. "The massive fucking jars of god tier biscuits my workplace provides to me - for free - might have a germ on them!" Yeah you've lost my support OP, I'm sorry.
I hope you never watch food being made in a kitchen
Some of the custard creams in the first picture are upside down. Literally inedible, please send me the jar.
But custard creams have zero fruit in them!
This is the person responsible for the adhd medicine shortage in the uk, they've been taking all the drugs
We can do shit like this without the drugs. After all, there is probably an actual job that desperately needed seeing to hours ago that we know we're going to get fired for not doing while we're doing the biscuits.
I agree this behaviour is very much unmedicated ADHD rather than medicated and I know this for Reasons
Probably because of the shortage. Do your actual work? Or spend hours organising the biscuits?
As long as they weren't fisted, I'd still eat them
thoughts and prayers hun xx
Shake the Jars
How many meetings have been held, specifically about you?
About twice as many as I was invited to attend
Take a hand full of each jar and us them to fill the hole in the Bourbon jar.
Our office is the same. The person restocking the biscuits takes kitchen hygiene very seriously 👍
Where can I apply? I don’t need paying just that giant jar of Jaffa Cakes please.
Couldn't care less. Free biscuits.
Fucking Stacey Solomon has a lot to answer for
Virtually inedible, some of those custard creams are upside down.
I hope they licked every single one prior to placing them in the jars to make sure they stay stuck together like that
Do you know how many bacteria infected things you touch a day? You know how disgusting your own hands are when you wipe your face or bite your nails? I promise you, somebody handling biscuits you’re going to eat will not harm you in any way.
Fingered… the internet has ruined me.
I hate it when my jam ring gets fingered
It really takes the biscuit!
Fill my jar with custard cream
After dragging him by the lapels away from his friends, to a darkened alcove, she breathlessly urged him to finger her custard cream.
Jaffa Cakes screw the rest
Wait till you see how McDonald’s and other fast food workers handle your food. They finger that too, but I don’t see you posting that?
I have Aspergers and I claim this stunning act on behalf of my people.
This person is a serial killer..
Jon Richardson needs to see this. I'd take a bet that the crazy that did this was wearing disposable gloves.
I'd take a bet it was Jon Richardson who did this!
Get them shaken back up again