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Why did you not wear gloves? When I did dishwashing at Mc Donald's I wore gloves they worked fine. Maybe my stint was shorter at only a year, but I'm pretty sur

Why did you not wear gloves? When I did dishwashing at Mc Donald's I wore gloves they worked fine. Maybe my stint was shorter at only a year, but I'm pretty sure McDonalds is using plenty hard chemicals too.

netcoyote 2y ago
When I worked at Lyon’s Restaurant (a slightly upscale Denny’s, to my mind) as a dishwasher, the heavy-duty rubber gloves they provided were frequently wet enough inside that mold formed rapidly. Only put the awful things on once or twice before giving up on them because they were so unpleasant!
- ido 2y ago
  Would disposable gloves (like the kind you can get 100 for $5-10) not withstand the heat or chemicals?
  - redundantly 2y ago
    Water will just get in at the wrist and then the moisture is trapped in the glove, which could be worse.
    - shmeeed 2y ago
      Versions with longer sleeves exist for this exact reason.
      - tomcam 2y ago
        Not when I was a kid, or at least that my parents were willing to buy. Plus I had to clean all the fucking ashtrays. Those gloves got gross af by day 2. We had a dishwasher but I wasn’t allowed to use it. Too loud.
  - netcoyote 2y ago
    I expect disposable gloves would have worked, but they weren't provided, and as a naive 17-year old I was way too dumb to ask. For reference on my stupidity, around the same time I mixed chlorine bleach and hydrogen peroxide to make a stronger cleaning agent and independently discovered that chlorine gas is really nasty stuff! Wow -- only did that once! It wasn't all bad. Several times I got to fill a 2'x2'x3' bin with strawberries after cutting off the bad bits, and ate several pounds of them each time. For non-Americans, that's around 40 kilos, but as an American I don't know much about the metric system, so that might be a few grams off :)
astura 2y ago
Wondering the same thing, I also wore gloves when I was on dishes in the cafeteria kitchen I worked at in high school.

netcoyote 2y ago

When I worked at Lyon’s Restaurant (a slightly upscale Denny’s, to my mind) as a dishwasher, the heavy-duty rubber gloves they provided were frequently wet enough inside that mold formed rapidly. Only put the awful things on once or twice before giving up on them because they were so unpleasant!

ido 2y ago
Would disposable gloves (like the kind you can get 100 for $5-10) not withstand the heat or chemicals?
- redundantly 2y ago
  Water will just get in at the wrist and then the moisture is trapped in the glove, which could be worse.
  - shmeeed 2y ago
    Versions with longer sleeves exist for this exact reason.
    - tomcam 2y ago
      Not when I was a kid, or at least that my parents were willing to buy. Plus I had to clean all the fucking ashtrays. Those gloves got gross af by day 2. We had a dishwasher but I wasn’t allowed to use it. Too loud.
- netcoyote 2y ago
  I expect disposable gloves would have worked, but they weren't provided, and as a naive 17-year old I was way too dumb to ask. For reference on my stupidity, around the same time I mixed chlorine bleach and hydrogen peroxide to make a stronger cleaning agent and independently discovered that chlorine gas is really nasty stuff! Wow -- only did that once! It wasn't all bad. Several times I got to fill a 2'x2'x3' bin with strawberries after cutting off the bad bits, and ate several pounds of them each time. For non-Americans, that's around 40 kilos, but as an American I don't know much about the metric system, so that might be a few grams off :)

astura 2y ago

Wondering the same thing, I also wore gloves when I was on dishes in the cafeteria kitchen I worked at in high school.