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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 hour ago

I've had contamination OCD for the majority of my life, and this shit has been torture for me.

I've been trying to get a ADA accommodation to work from home because my job is in software, but the bastards over at HR think that clorox wipes and a dedicated cube will solve this shit. It's irritating as fuck that nobody in charge seems capable of piecing basic hygiene together.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

If you simply cut your hands off these petty grievances will become a distant memory.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

Meh, 5 second rule applies here.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago

This is why I love those things at the bottom of the door that lets you open the door with your foot.

[–] zat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago

LOLNEIN has this catchy song about exactly that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdESLgw7z5Y

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The bathrooms outside the lobby in my work building take this automatic crap a step further, with automatic soap machines. It's hit or miss if any given one will have soap at all. (Thankfully, we have another sink inside my work itself that employees can use, but guests are fucked.)

Then when they do dispense soap, it's the foam shit. So it looks like the sink just spit into my hands. Lovely.

[–] metakrakalaka@lemmychan.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Your restrooms don't have automatic doors?

[–] notastatist@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

It would never funktion and would jail you for hours

[–] fennesz12@feddit.dk 19 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

This wouldn't be a problem if people actually washed their hands.

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I've witness a lot of people won't wash their hands after taking a piss. In fact some of them take a shit and just walk out without washing hands. These people then touch doors, windows, counters, food plates, appliances, evey fucking common surface... People in the office, corporate buildings, people in suits... so yeah, fuck people, they're fucking disgusting.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Less than 5% properly wash. We learned NOTHING from COVID. In fact, hygiene is even worse now.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Still would accumulate toilet aerosols over time, and would still be gross. The real solution is foot handles or no door

[–] fennesz12@feddit.dk 1 points 1 hour ago

I take it the janitors wash the door handle regularly, but yeah, automatic door would probably be better.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

But then transgender ninjas can just walk in.

[–] remon@ani.social 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

I refuse to associate with hand non-washers... Perchance, hermitage.

[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

What a bunch of bastards.

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

One of my favourite anime characters of all time is named Remon :D She washes her hands, I'm sure...

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Even better if the door opens touchless on payment from the outside but has a handle to pull on the inside.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 49 minutes ago

People that are rich enough to pay to use a restroom never have germs on their hands anyways, so they just rinse their hands with warm water to participate in the quaint hand washing ritual that the poor insist on perpetuating.

[–] Kevlar21@piefed.social 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Turns out businesses don’t care about cleanliness or your safety beyond the point where it might affect their bottom line and just install touchless sinks and hand dryers to save money on water and paper towels

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Using wads of paper towel and leaving the tap open waste resources. This is a prime example where being economical equates to being ecological.

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

i work in a business with unlimited access to paper towels, it saddens me how much i have to throw away unused ones

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 43 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hey I'm an athlete but these foot pull doors are still extremely difficult. It strains your calf muscles, your hamstrings, your kegels, and your core. Opening heavy restroom doors with this spiky foot pull is not easy or fun or comfortable at all.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

Our office has these and it's always been p. easy to open them. No idea why there is a discrepancy. Maybe something about the balance of the door?

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 6 points 8 hours ago

In the University of Bremen it's full of big red buttons everywhere to avoid touching handles.

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 33 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Any handle or surface in public areas, assume the person that handled it before you had just finished taking a monster shit and skipped the handwashing before rubbing their pathogen-factories all over it. Photo in OP, there's not really a good option, so you're in damage control mode... check for toilet seat liners that some public restrooms stock and grab one of them? At least that's something the other people handle before getting shit all over their hands.

One of the nastiest assignments I've had working in a hospital was 'Handwashing Monitor'. And let me tell you, I've debrided infected wounds; wiped maggots out of some fucker's pannus; cleaned up every bodily fluid our bodies are capable of cranking out from the floor, walls, and sometimes ceiling; helped amputate limbs that were literally rotten to the bone, and wiped a cumulative mile or two of ass crack...

...apply to nursing school today!!...

...but anyway, Handwashing Monitor. It is beyond appalling the number of patients, visitors, techs, nurses, doctors, housekeepers, you name it... who'd go in and out of patient rooms without performing hand hygiene; or they'd wash their hands, but for like half a second; or not use soap; or turn the faucet on with their grimy-ass hands, do a thorough handwash, then immediately contaminate themselves by grabbing that same dirty-ass faucet with their bare hands to turn it off. The thing that made that position take the crown above all the other examples I gave in the previous paragraph was the realization that the community who is THE single most painfully aware of pathogens and their origins / mechanism of spreading... can't even wash their fucking hands!

...which brings us back to my opening sentence: it's not advice on sheer ick factor, but a reasonable assumption based on directly observed evidence.

And no, this wasn't just a particularly icky hospital: I've worked in multiple states for multiple organizations/facilities, and to this day get eye-rolls for asking people to re-wash or even first-wash their hands.

We nasty. Be a germaphobe. End rant.

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[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 98 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Mythbusters did a segment that showed the air dryers are more likely to spread germs. So it's just awful all around

[–] StickyDango@lemmy.world 53 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Environmental Health Officer here... I had a classmate who did a study on this, specifically the Dyson-type where you stick your hands in downwards.

Next time, take a look at what's there in the 2mm gap on the bottom inside where the water, etc. collects, and where the forced air blows all that material. Remember to not breathe.

There's a reason why we direct food businesses to use paper towels in the kitchen, not hand dryers. Also, because ain't nobody got time to properly wash their hands for 30 seconds and then stand there completely drying their hands when they have 20+ chits on the go.

Edit: Forgot to mention, the majority of people don't know how to wash their hands properly, especially under the nails (both men and women). They've just used the hand dryer. Now you use the hand dryer. Multiply that by how many days it is before these things actually get cleaned and sanitised only to be contaminated again by the first user until the next clean and sanitise, if ever. Humans are filthy. 💀

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If they get cleaned and sanitized.

[–] StickyDango@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

I highly doubt they do. They probably just get tested and tagged, and maybe to make sure the filters are cleaned/replaced. Otherwise, I really don't know. Do the daily cleaners even wipe those down? I've more often seen people cleaning the traffic lights (3 times in my entire life) than I see anyone go near a hand dryer with a cloth (none).

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