Today's Health Dept. Visit is Brought to You by the Number 89

[ContraCorriente]

Yes, yes, let it be known that we scored an 89 when the health lady showed up today.

But we were robbed. She counted off four points because the dumpster door was halfway open and there was a dustmop leaning up against the wall instead of hanging up where it's supposed to be.

The meatroom even scored better than us. They had a 94.

Anyway, y'all have any good health dept. stories?

[protege]

My grandfather worked as a food inspector for years. He had some interesting stories about some of the idiots he got to deal with. Mainly small grocery stores who were constantly being closed because they refused to follow the regulations. You name it, they'd do it; selling expired milk, not keeping the place clean, various "critters" in the buildings, etc.

[blas]

Nothing like that, but I'm positive that OSHA looks forward to visiting the Menards Distribution Center here every time. They have a hayday with that place. Each visit they slap thousands and thousands of dollars in fines against Mr. Menard. Serves him right for practically running a sweatshop of a distribution center.

Let's see what that asshole has done around here. Forces people who aren't certified to run forklifts, then gets angry and fires them if they hurt themselves or run into something or break something even though it's his fault they drove it....

Dumps hundreds of gallons of toxic waste into the local lakes and rivers.

Forces people to lift weight way beyond their comfort or safety level....

Doesn't air condition or warm the building. It's on fire in the summer and frozen shut in the winter.

I don't even work there. These are the tales I've heard. But Mr. Menard is a jerk and he deserves every fine he gets from OSHA.

[Becks]

I'm sure we've gotten good scores, because we'd surely hear about it if we got bad ones.

I always feel so bad for the meat department. That's the first one to get inspected, so they have no time to make sure everything is QA perfect. All the other departments in the store have plenty of time.

[Rapscallion]

We had a spot audit by one of our larger customers last week. We got 98/100, which impressed both them and us.

Rapscallion

[Sofar]

We got a B in our window, so we got a sign painted what read URRITOS.

[Spiffy McMoron]

We got a B in our window, so we got a sign painted what read URRITOS.

"Urritos"? Sounds good. I'll have three, please.

[JustADude]

We got a B in our window, so we got a sign painted what read URRITOS.

And I am going to ask here, as I do any place that gets a B rating... What were the points were knocked off for?

[Aldous]

Best thing I saw was the only perfect score my store got. In 1998. Said certificate was covered in dust and grime. And we've lost points because of that sign too. Irony at it's finest right there. Usually right before an inspection, my manager will tell me not to work the window, not to touch the food, leave the register, and just stand there. Because when I've got nothing to do, I clean, and everytime I clean everything looks new. I also hate cleaning, but I'm bored, so I've got to do something. The DM came in one day, and everyone was sitting around doing nothing, I was on my hands and knees scrubbing the cup holder, he says "You people, be more like him, show some initiative." He touches the cup holder and I freaked on him. He thought it was funny. I had it nice and clean and he put his fingerprints all over it. GRRRRRRRR

[powerboy]

Whenever I am bored, when I am working. I will clean. My last job. I had just cleaned the display case, made it super clean. The manager put some greasy food on it. I went off on him. I would clean as good as I could, but with limited supplies, it is hard to do. I was able to mop a few times.

[Zombi]

My room is a pigsty (not dirty, just messy), but my department is spotless. I'm working more late nights than I'd like to at the moment, and we're dead after about 6pm, so I have nothing to do except clean.

[Reyneth]

At my first job, an ice cream stand, we CLEANED. Like every so often with toothbrushes getting the baseboards of the floor where the tiles met the walls. Every ice cream freezer (4 in all about 10' long each) was wiped down inside and out at least once a day. When you do something, you had to initial it on the chart. There were four sets of chores that were divided up each night.

One day I got in and was in the process of getting my arse chewed out by the owner/manager because the shake machine was dirty and I had signed for it. I showed him where I signed half of the spot because I had done the Hurricane (think blizzard) one but not for the shakes. That wouldn't fly with the heath board, and we were due for an inspection (not that we really heard about them) soon.

"If you're doing "machines" you have to make sure they're all done and done right, not just the ones you do!"

Seeing as I wasn't *assigned* machines, but rather had finished my segment and was *helping* the person doing them he changed his story real quick when I told him that. Pretty bad that I had done more than the person whose job it was so he had assumed I was the one doing them!

And the owner, aka my uncle, never chewed me out for something like that again before making sure he had the story straight.

[Sofar]

And I am going to ask here, as I do any place that gets a B rating... What were the points were knocked off for?

Nah, actually we've never been inspected. And they don't do the letters here.

[BookstoreEscapee]

My room is a pigsty (not dirty, just messy), but my department is spotless. I'm working more late nights than I'd like to at the moment, and we're dead after about 6pm, so I have nothing to do except clean.

I am the same way. Slow days never saw a cashwrap so neatly organized. Could I find a paper clip in my room? Not with a metal detector and a magnet...

[hecubus]

OSHA can be a real pain in the butt. In a lot of ways, hey have no concept of how things work in the real world. I remember back when I was a teenager, OSHA actually came out with a 17 page booklet (or something like that) on the proper use of a ladder! Also in the '70s, they came out with a farm safety booklet that contained such gems as, "manure on a barn floor may be slippery."

Sometimes I think that OSHA will not be happy until everyone is wearing a level-5 Hazmat suit on every job.