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True Blue Door
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Brigid
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Initech
(109,237 posts)You are an unfit mother. Your children have been placed in the custody of Carl's Jr. 
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Initech
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True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Initech
(109,237 posts) yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)of a job. They could do it humanely by not replacing workers as they leave or retire. Of course they will just lay them off. Business wins again! Ugh! It's only 15 dollars they were asking. Not a million.
CrispyQ
(41,085 posts)It will end up costing McDs more than employing people. If they do this with drive-thru it will be even worse.
kickysnana
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Downwinder
(12,869 posts)minimum wage for processing my order.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Downwinder
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)So I avoid them.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)With an actual, honest-to-god human being. Period.
I do use the self checkout at the grocery store, but that's because the lady who runs the self checkout flirts with me and all the checkers know me by name. Sometimes they'll come over and check me out anyway, on the self-checkout machines. A couple of them even remember when I was a bag-boy there almost thirty years ago!
Joe Magarac
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)only ten your own.
Use the line with the cashier, not the machine...do not be tricked by the human helper at the machines, use the cashier line.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Ward
(28 posts)DOG only knows who has handled that money previously.
Just keep your filthy money to yourself.
rickford66
(6,093 posts)Probably not as bad as your kitchen sink.
former9thward
(33,424 posts)If diseases were passed that way we would all be dead. Guess what, we aren't. Even the hundreds of millions of us who happily handle money and are not germaphobic.
NewDeal_Dem
(1,049 posts)Implications
I asked the microbiologist what to make of his team’s new findings. Did they uncover a hazard or was the contamination too low to matter?
Overall, Vriesekoop says, the number of bugs hiding out on a banknote tends to be small. But occasionally a hot bill will turn up. For instance, although the “bulk” of the 118 $5 and $20 bills that his team surveyed harbored no more than 10 CFUs per square centimeter, he notes that one or two hosted at least 10 times that many. So the occasional bill may indeed be relatively germy.
That said, he conceded that most of the bugs identified on the bills looked relatively harmless. Their presence, however, reinforces the potential for sickening contamination if the person who last handled a banknote was ill or had touched tainted food.
Finally, I asked what to make of all those nooks and crannies on bills made from cotton rag fibers. In a study I reported on several years back looking at cocaine contamination of banknotes, tiny drug particles were found lodged in microscopic fiber pockets on a U.S. dollar's surface. This suggested greenbacks might prove not only a good medium for collecting tiny particles, but also for sequestering them. If pocketed away securely enough, those pollutant particles might not rub off onto our hands once they had became embedded in a bill.
That’s also basically the argument proffered to explain data indicating that wood cutting boards are less likely than glass or plastic ones to contribute to the bacterial cross contamination of foods. The germs get into the crannies of wood’s fibers, investigations showed, and then either died or couldn't get out.
If the same proves true for germs on money, might that not suggest paper currency could be safer to handle than polymer bills, where the germs remain sitting on the surface with no grab bars to keep from rubbing off?
“We do not know!” Vriesekoop says, but “we are about to start another study wjere we will investigate the survival of bacteria on banknotes. Our current paper only represents a snapshot of what we found on the notes when obtained from a food outlet. Now, we want to know how long bacteria will stay alive when we place them on both cotton-based and polymer-based notes.
"Our prediction is that they stay alive longer on cotton-based notes.”
Clearly, more research is needed. But until more data become available, the new paper's authors argue that we’d all do well to play it safe and wash our hands after touching any money.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-public/dirty-money-1-expect-germs
Want another option?
You could move to Japan, where money is "laundered," literally.
One of Japan's leading banks, Sanwa, installed its first "clean ATM" machine at a branch in Tokyo in the mid-1990s. The ever-appreciative and clean-seeking Japanese flocked to the wonder machine, for the potential to have the cleanest money ever. Customers would insert their yens into the machine, which would then be treated to a heat process of 392 degrees, claiming to kill 90 percent of germs and bacteria before dispensing back to customers.
"What a novel idea," said McCarter. "Except, the minute you pick up that paper money again, it becomes contaminated with your normal flora!"
So much for clean money.
As for Gomez, he sized up that getting germs from money won't be a problem for him. Why?
"Because I always use a debit card."
http://chronicle.augusta.com/living/2010-06-28/how-bad-are-germs-money
ileus
(15,396 posts)And to be completely sanitary you always handle cash and coins when wearing gloves right?
You may want to just skip using paper and coins completely, and don't forget to always clean your debit card when it's returned.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)why I keep alcohol wipes in my purse.
I always wash my hands every chance I get when out and about, but people would be surprised how filthy one's hands and fingers can get in about ten minutes.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Than paying with your debit card...I always use hand sanitizer after
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)That's why I like the ones where you can just hold your card up and it charges it...no PIN needed. This way I just touch my card and not the stupid numbers that a million people have touched.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Maybe I'm going to the wrong places, but I usually have to hold the menu with my hands.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)OffWithTheirHeads
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roody
(10,849 posts)Have never bought fast food since.
onethatcares
(17,009 posts)along with it's lotto machines and whatever else is in their stores. I went in to buy gas and a ticket one time and would not do the maze to buy the ticket. That was and will be the last time in that corporations store in my life, unless it's the only place on earth.
Freddie
(10,142 posts)Order your food on the touch screen and it spits out a receipt. Go pay the live human cashier and by the time you've done that, your food is probably ready. Don't think it put anyone out of work and your order is much more likely to be accurate this way.
Initech
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Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)I've never alerted before but just did.
You Tube page of video producer:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzUV5283-l5c0oKRtyenj6Q
Initech
(109,237 posts) MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Go look at his channel. He's nuttier than Alex Jones.
Initech
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Red Knight
(704 posts)Who is he to belittle anyone or talk about what they're worth?
He's basically useless.
Fast food workers work harder than he does putting out his garbage ideas and they're more useful to society and produce more value than anything he throws up on the internet.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)With a computer.
sendero
(28,552 posts).. this is going to help their flagging sales numbers.
shallwechat
(13 posts)Its fine, till its hacked. Or there is a coding error and reads 20.00 as .20 or something.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Workers are a liability...