McDonald’s workers roast Trump over ‘insulting cosplay’ fry cook stunt
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Trump sported neither gloves not a hair net as he worked at a branch of the fast food chain in Pennsylvania

Trump sported neither gloves not a hair net as he worked at a branch of the fast food chain in Pennsylvania

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Earlier this year, this location didn’t meet the compliance requirements of the Bucks County Health Department. A health inspection in March at the Feasterville-Trevose location resulted in four violations, including citing employees not having their “hands clean & properly washed.”

“Food employees are not washing their hands as required before putting on gloves, after handling soiled tableware, after handling raw meat, before handling clean tableware, equipment, utensils. CFSM must review hand washing requirements with staff. Observed employees handling raw beef with gloves and then switching gloves without hand washing step in-between,” the health inspector wrote.

The report also noted a lack of hairnets: “Food workers are not wearing hair restraints as required, which includes management that assists in packaging and preparing food. Employees shall wear hair restraints such as hats, hair coverings or nets, that are effectively designed and worn to keep their hair from contacting exposed food; clean equipment, utensils and linens; and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles.”

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    1201·
    14 days ago

    I think we should just forget talking about Turnip and just talk about Kamala Harris instead.

    Did you know her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a biologist who arrived in the United States from India in 1958.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        541·
        14 days ago

        As the San Francisco district attorney and the attorney general of California, Harris was the first woman, the first African American, and the first Asian American to hold each office.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    42·
    14 days ago

    He looks so fucking tired.

    It’s not even a real job or even a shift, it’s a photo op and he looks like he’s about to collapse in all those photos.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    818·
    14 days ago

    Thing is, wearing gloves in the first place is part of the issue, it gives a false sense of cleanliness and makes people not wash their hands as often as they should.

    Edit: Downvote all you want, I’ve got my training in hygiene and sanitary practices in a kitchen environment, you wear gloves, you don’t feel that your hands are dirty, you don’t clean them as often. Gloves should be worn when you hurt your hands, that’s it.

    • GiveOver@feddit.uk
      34·
      14 days ago

      I don’t understand this obsession with gloves. When I worked at McDonald’s, we didn’t wear gloves. Do you wear gloves when you cook at home? Of course not. Just wash your hands.

      • MrShankles@lemmy.world
        7·
        14 days ago

        I uhh… I do sometimes wear gloves when cooking at home. Mainly for handling raw meat (especially mixing ground beef and such; helps keep it from getting underneath my nails). I’m still washing my hands after taking the gloves off, but they’re much easier to wash when they’re not coated in fat and raw meat juices

      • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
        3·
        14 days ago

        I don’t HAVE to wear gloves while at home (unless touching meat), because I know I’M the one washing my hands.

        There are so many people in this world that refuse to wash their hands after using the restroom, and you want them to touch your food bare handed??? These same people that might have pulled their phone out to reply or scroll on it for a minute? The same phone that is probably chock full of germs…?

        At least with gloves (especially those that put the gloves on before they prep your food), and proper management, you can at LEAST assume some sort of cleanliness.

        • GiveOver@feddit.uk
          12·
          14 days ago

          Yeah so the unhygienic people scratch their arse with their gloves on. Now what?

          • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
            11·
            14 days ago

            The same exact thing can be said for your bare handed argument.

            It’s called TRAINING. It’s something that happens before you get hired on, while you’re being trained on food prep, and is plastered over the walls of any decent food joint not run by a moron. For fools who don’t follow the guide, as I mentioned above, you get a verbal warning, leading up to getting fired, for not following something so simple. That’s where a manager comes in, which is supposed to be part of their job, to ensure these guidelines are being followed.

            If you’re still confused, here is a similar poster that was plastered onto the walls of the fast food joint I worked at as a teenager (and had no issues following them, unlike some adults here…) to which I then became a manager and had to enforce them like they were on me.

            • GiveOver@feddit.uk
              22·
              14 days ago

              Exactly, so you agree it’s the same whether you have gloves on or not? It’s all about being hygienic and following the rules

                • GiveOver@feddit.uk
                  12·
                  14 days ago

                  Yep totally lost the plot. You’re right it’s impossible to cook safely without latex gloves on 🙄

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
      51·
      14 days ago

      Used to work in fast food.

      What you’re supposed to do is wash hands, new gloves, and when you need to change your gloves again (they even have a handy little poster that reminds you when!), you wash hands, put new gloves on.

      It’s… really not that hard?

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        35·
        14 days ago

        Posters are pretty much useless if you don’t feel that your hands are dirty

        My training is the one you get to work in a kitchen environment like a hospital.

        • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
          41·
          14 days ago

          Isn’t that why you have training, and a manager to ensure proper steps are being taken?

          My manager took her job seriously, and if she came around and noticed you:

          A) weren’t wearing gloves B) weren’t keeping to the guidelines by changing gloves at the allotted time C) ESPECIALLY not washing your hands

          You’d get a verbal warning, write up for subsequent violations, and then fired for not being able to properly follow these simple guidelines.

          I don’t want your bare hands touching my food. Period.

          A hospital should be even more strict about these simple guidelines. Seeing you so vehemently against something as simple as gloves on top of washing your hands, makes me so glad I cook at home. Keep on, I guess. Who cares anymore, am I right?

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
            25·
            14 days ago

            I don’t understand how you don’t get it…

            Gloves aren’t a sign of cleanliness or hygiene and people using their clean hands is much better than people wearing gloves and not cleaning often enough because they don’t realize their gloves are dirty. It’s that simple. It’s even you see cooks wearing gloves that you should be worried.

            weren’t keeping to the guidelines by changing gloves at the allotted time

            See, from the get go that makes zero sense! Cleaning isn’t based on time, it’s based on what you manipulated!

              • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
                41·
                14 days ago

                I feel so bad for those hospital patients, and the staff, that have to eat whatever germ ridden food this person is handling.

            • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
              41·
              14 days ago

              I don’t understand why you are having such a hard time grasping such a simple thing as guidelines.

              A guideline, in this case, is something to follow, which all employees should do, to prevent any unnecessary contamination. Gloves are an extra precaution, on top of washing your hands properly, that minimizes the risk of contaminating the very food that someone else is going to be putting into their body.

              Gloves in a FOOD environment, alongside hair nets, are just a no brainer for someone that will be serving food to another human being. On the daily, I see motherfuckers who can’t even be bothered to wash their hands after using the restroom, and you expect me to see someone cooking food without gloves on, and continue to eat that shit???

              The allotted time is for when you haven’t gotten your gloves dirty, or at the very least not contaminated with other food stuffs. That means that if you get your gloves covered in the food you are prepping, you go and wash your hands and put on a new pair of gloves. Simple as hell, and promotes a healthy cooking environment. There are literally no downsides, just the ones you make up in your head.

              • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
                23·
                14 days ago

                Guidelines vary depending on where you live, around here is no gloves and there’s a very good justification for it.

                • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
                  31·
                  14 days ago

                  I provided you a lot of reasons why gloves should be worn, and all you can say is this. Poor way to justify your shitty practices. Keep on serving your contaminated food then, you improperly trained fool.

    • baru@lemmy.world
      24·
      14 days ago

      it gives a false sense of cleanliness and makes people not wash their hands as often as they should.

      To expand in that. If someone wears gloves and touches e.g. raw chicken and then something else it’ll contaminate it and anything they’ll touch afterwards.

      People asking for gloves are usually misguided. As said, due to gloves they’ll not charge gloves or wash when needed. And that’s pretty often.

      Strangely there’s some huge craziness where there’s loads of comments that ask for gloves and think it’ll improve hygiene. While to me gloves indicate a poor hygiene understanding.

  • Wytch@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    226·
    14 days ago

    Don Jr then boasted: “I think my father knows the McDonald’s menu much better than Kamala Harris ever did.”

    Yeah I’m sure he does, you fucking dumbass

    • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
      24·
      14 days ago

      Don Jr really can’t stop saying the dumbest things and making himself or whoever he’s talking about look worse in the process. I’d say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but I honestly think he’s actually even less aware than his dad.

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
        45·
        14 days ago

        He also knows way more about cheating on wives, wanting to fuck his daughter, getting millions of people killed, bankrupting a casino, being impeached, losing the popular vote twice in a row, and being convicted of felonies than Kamala or even most Americans. Y’all should brag about that, too.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        31·
        14 days ago

        The MAGoos were trying to manufacture a scandal; they found one of Harris’s old resumes and tried to imply that she was ashamed of her roots. Supposedly, she should have put in her time at McDonalds on a professional resume. If that sounds like a weird overreach, it’s because it is a weird overreach

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          13·
          14 days ago

          Thing is they have to reach. Because they don’t have any real arguments. The whole thing is a grift, so they just say whatever stupid shit they think might resonate with people they have no respect for.

            • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              14 days ago

              Shit, my partner put their masters degree on a fucking to-go orders job at a restaurant…and there were 3 rounds of interviews.

        • 800XL@lemmy.world
          4·
          13 days ago

          When I was starting out every resume book, class, website said not to put retail or food service jobs on your resume unless you were applying to your very first professional job (shows you can hold a job and have some experience working with others and taking orders from a manager) or it was relevant to the job you were applying to.

          The reason Trump and his handlers think this is such a gotcha is because they got all their jobs from mommy and daddy and their parents’ friends. His cult has worked the same job their entire life, don’t actually work and collect worker’s comp, or don’t need a resume for the type of job they have.

          Not really impressive.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          14 days ago

          I review a lot of resumes. When it’s for someone right out of school or very early career, it makes sense for them to include things like fast food work or retail. But it seems really strange when someone with decades of relevant experience (I hire software engineers) includes it.

          • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            I put strange stuff like that in my resume just to stick out to people like you. Twice now I’ve been hired partly because I’m a Dungeon Master.

            • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              13 days ago

              You know, I’ve had this debate with other managers at work. One was incensed because he got a resume that listed being a raid leader, and thought it was ridiculous. I told him I used to be a WoW raid leader and, even though it’s a game, it requires explaining encounters to people who might not be familiar with them, getting ten or more people to follow a game plan, staying calm when things aren’t going to plan, and a whole lot of other skills that are useful in the workplace. I’ve never thought to put it on my own resume, but I think it’s pretty valid.

    • makuus@pawb.social
      28·
      14 days ago

      I think the only reasonable response to that quote would be: “Weird flex but ok…”

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    781·
    14 days ago

    It doesn’t matter, they’re voting for him anyway. The idea is to boost Kamala enough that planned nonvoters, vote.

    That’s all. That’s the point of the campaigning. One more shitty Trump thing on the shitpile of shitty things that have accumulated in 8yrs won’t change anything.

    What changes is convincing non voters to vote Kamala. And that happens by talking about Kamala, not Trump.

        • zephorah@lemm.ee
          3·
          14 days ago

          Reality vs the alternative reality of Cluster B narcissistic personality disorder. In other words, the reality of an untreated mental illness being grossly manipulated by those around him so they can claim power.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    431·
    14 days ago

    The restaurant closed down for 30 minutes while Trump played dress up. It’s unclear if the branch’s workers were paid during that interim.

    Is it unclear though? I think we all know the answer to that.

  • FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world
    27·
    14 days ago

    Hairnet??? And cover that glorious hairstyle that inspires all to be their best selves ??? Gloves??? And cover those giant masculine man hands that inspires all to be the work they want to see in the world??? Blasphemy!!!

    • auzy@lemmy.world
      8·
      14 days ago

      I wouldn’t want that guys fingers near my food either

      He’s the kind of asshole who definitely wouldn’t care about spreading sickness

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
    22·
    14 days ago

    Good that the media has something else to focus on besides his flaming fascistic rhetoric… This is much more important.

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
    16·
    13 days ago

    And then today McDonald’s had an e coli outbreak. Trump forgot to change his depends that day.