No Thanks, I Don't Want AIDS.

[TheGeneralPublicSucks]

Ok, I will try and keep the cussing down on this one, but this is ridiculous.

I am cleaning a table (no kids under 12 ate at this table) last night when I am about to reach for some napkins when I notice that there is blood all over them. Like "bloody nose" blood, not "paper cut" blood, but also not "shot in the chest" blood. They were not even crumpled up at all!! What the fuck is that?! At least make a damn ball out of the napkins! I almost took a picture of it I was so appalled. Where do you think you are, a fucking public bathroom?! And who the fuck am I?! What went through your head when you just left your bloody ass napkins sitting there?! "Ah fuck it, someone will get those" or "oh shit, I bled all over these napkins, gross, I don't want to touch them." But I do?! I mean, this is human fucking blood we're talking about here.

Keep yourself to yourself because I didn't come to work to get AIDS tonight.

[blas]

I got a dirty diaper in lieu of a tip once. I felt bad that the dishwasher was made to pick it up and throw it away (personally, I thought the manager should have done it, but no way was I touching that!).

The things people do never fail to amaze me.

[TheGeneralPublicSucks]

yes, we see dirty diapers every so often... for some reason, I am more bothered by blood than shit.

[chainedbarista]

as disgusting as it was, you most likely have no chance of catching aids; it has a very short time space it can live outside the body. unless you were cleaning up a huge, fresh pool, then i'd worry, but a call to public health might be in order, along with a bleaching treatment.

that was pretty damned nasty; blood? dear customer, if you must bleed, clean it up yourself or go bleed elsewhere.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

If you were going to catch anything from the bloody napkins, it would've been Hepatitis B, which can live outside the body in dried blood. Not that that is any better than HIV.

Why yes, I did take my bloodborne pathogens training at work recently. Why do you ask?

[tollbaby]

Yeah.. a bit paranoid to think you might get AIDS from a napkin... unless you go to work covered in open sores/wounds?

Gross, yes, but no worse than picking up someone's used kleenex or really just a grody post-nosh napkin. I can't stand touching napkins after my kids have used them (my daughter especially... she's NASTY), so I just use my own napkin to pick them up and put them on a plate so the server doesn't need to touch them, they can just tip the plate toward the garbage to get rid of everything.

[vacation_rentals_suck]

I am cleaning a table (no kids under 12 ate at this table) last night when I am about to reach for some napkins when I notice that there is blood all over them.

I was in Wendy's once and saw a lady changing her baby on the table. Then while she sat and ate, because she was too lazy to walk to the garbage can, she put the dirty diaper on a tray on the next table behind them presumably so she wouldnt have to look at it while she ate. She didnt mind if other people had to see it apparently.

[energyguy]

whether you can specifically catch aids or not, leaving bloody rags for others to clean up in unsanitary and plain disgusting.

[TheGeneralPublicSucks]

whether you can specifically catch aids or not, leaving bloody rags for others to clean up in unsanitary and plain disgusting.

Thanks you! That is my entire point here!

[MoonCat]

Eww. Reminds me of the note that was left in the ladies room at work once, by the cleaning crew. Ladies, you know those little disposal cans they put in the stalls to hold used tampons, etc? Apparently people were not being careful to put their stuff inside the little paper bags inside the cans. The cleaners left a copy of this note on EVERY one:

"Please put your used items INSIDE the paper bag, not outside. If you don't want to touch your own, WHAT! makes you think that someone else does!"

(punctuation exactly as they wrote it)

[LillFilly]

Not so much disease related, and a bit sucky coworker, but a friend was just telling me that they caught the cleaning lady in their office scrubbing the toilets and then scrubbing-out the microwaves...WITH THE SAME BRUSH! Yup, she was seen coming out of the the restroom and going right into the kitchenette and using that nasty toilet brush.

[Kogarashi]

Not so much disease related, and a bit sucky coworker, but a friend was just telling me that they caught the cleaning lady in their office scrubbing the toilets and then scrubbing-out the microwaves...WITH THE SAME BRUSH! Yup, she was seen coming out of the the restroom and going right into the kitchenette and using that nasty toilet brush.

Heard a story (probably intended as a joke) about a high school janitor who complained about the teenage girls leaving lipstick kisses all over the bathroom mirrors. They were all called into the restroom for a demonstration on how the janitor cleaned the mirrors. He took the toilet brush, dipped it in the toilet bowl, then scrubbed the lipstick off of the mirror. End of lipstick marks. Certainly more forgivable than cleaning out the microwave with that brush, though. Blegh.

[infinitemonkies]

About 10 years ago, I was working in a restaurant as a cook.
We had a regular sc who would routinely leave used needles with his dishes.
Not just that, but he'd usually put it in his water glass, where more often than not it would make it's way into the sink. Several staff members were pricked over the course of a few weeks.
We figured out the culprit was this older sc who came in almost every day for lunch, and the disposable needles were for his insulin injections, and that thankfully he was communicable disease free. We banned him from the restaurant.
Found out a little while later he was a licensed, practicing dentist.... or was until he lost his license for... guess what? Improperly disposing of medical waste.

[cinema guy]

Why yes, I did take my bloodborne pathogens training at work recently. Why do you ask?

That sounds like pretty cool training. All we get is how to climb ladders.