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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2021 - 04 - 05 - ID#mkvdta
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Can I have acrylic nails if I wear gloves? (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by 378bees
Hey, just wondering if I could get away wearing acrylic nails if I wear gloves over them during my shifts. (I’ve been working in food service for about 3 years now so I know all the info on why just the nails is a health violation). I just used to wear them all the time and have been missing it so much, and was wondering if anyone has done this themselves.
Thanks😊
yukhentai 12 points 2y ago
nope, never any nails at all at starbucks unfortunately
[deleted] 10 points 2y ago
Just adding on the reason gloves are a no over them is you’d have to change them after each new thing you touched. Every drink. Pos to coffee. Etc.
MrsOceanGrown 1 points 2y ago
Why would you have to change your gloves after every “drink”. I understand the p.o.s. to coffee..
[deleted] 4 points 2y ago
Because with each drink your contaminating the “clean” gloves. Once you touch something, like a drink, they’re not clean anymore and you have to change them just like contamination from POS to brewed coffee. They are single use gloves.
MrsOceanGrown 4 points 2y ago
So every time you touch a drink with your bare hands you wash them? Making or touching a DRINK does not “contaminate” your hands or gloves. Partners have had cuts during work and had to put a glove on over the bandaid or wound. Once they touch something like money, their hair, chemicals, or exit and then enter the workspace, that’s “contamination” and they would take off the gloves, wash hands, and put new ones on.
378bees [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thanks for the info, figured it was a long shot but though I would ask anyways 🤷‍♀️
MrsOceanGrown 0 points 2y ago
I’ve done it! I had a vacation and got them done but they weren’t ready to come off yet so i wore gloves for a couple shifts. Everyone asked why and I told them. You’d have to change your gloves and wash your hands between use every time you contaminate them just like you would with your bare hands. I wouldn’t make this a regular thing though.
BunnyKerfluffle 1 points 2y ago
That's absolutely against policy and I would send you home. Not only is it against policy, it's incredibly wasteful.
suugarcooki 2 points 1y ago
I had nails working at Dunkin. Was never an issue. Working at Starbucks I still don’t see the problem. And I think working at Starbucks have no room to talk about “wasteful”. The company is incredibly wasteful.
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