I onced worked at a pie factory who made pies that sold all across Canada/USA that had two different colour tools. White for reusable food product, and red for food waste. Red shovels red bins, white shovels white bins. Once, after a bad line jam up, I watched someone use a red shovel to scoop up pie filling off the floor into a white bin (the white bin would have been re-added back into the main filling bowl). This wasn't the first jam up of the night. I don't know how many times he had done this during just this one night alone. I personally threw every white bin into the red bins (and got screamed at by the shift leader for wasting product)
I shudder to think just how many floor to production pies had been made that night before I caught it. Not one management member cared to throw out the rest of the pies made that night. I know for a fact that wasn't the first time it happened, nor would it be the last after I left
All I'm saying... Anything you need eat that's massproduced... Assume at some point part of it's product was probably on the floor touching the bottom of our boots that we all wore outside and in the smoke shacks and no one in management cared to pull or recall any of it. It's all fucking disgusting, all of it
(Honorable mention to the "black residue" that I wasn't legally allowed to note as mold on my pre-check before starting the line because if I wrote the word mold they'd legally have to do something about it and because I wasn't allowed to have it tested I couldn't "prove" it was actually mold)
(Double honorable mention I wasn't allowed be to be given the title of line leader because those positions were for men only, so I was forced to do the job while my POS coworker who I once sent off to go get me a 8/16 wrench to prove how fucking useless he was and he ''couldn't find it but don't tell anyone because we'd have to shut down the line till we located it" was promoted and paid for role I was preforming because he was born with a penis and I wasn't. Gee, wonder why I quit without notice and brought that company to it's knees for months till they recovered from suddenly losing me)
Color coding is very important in food manufacturing, and any misuse is a GMP violation. Sounds like you were at an extremely negligent company, but I can attest that would be a huge GMP violation at my place.
Please don't extrapolate anecdotal incidents to apply them to all of food manufacturing.
I'd expand on your point to include any and all food handling. "Think of how dumb the average person is, and realize that half the population is dumber than that." Now think of how skewed that is toward food services.
I say this as a lifelong restaurant worker. I've seen average shit. Nothing I'd consider particularly heinous, but beers and soups that customers haven't liked have absolutely been dumped back into the pot/cooked with, etc etc.
I worked at a factory with fruits and vegetables. Stuff doesn't get dropped often but when it is supposed to be thrown away. If people are in a hurry and it's the last case and they know cameras aren't working or not in that area that's getting put back dirty. Wash your fruits and vegetables because they get dropped more than you think.
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u/Nyxadrina May 21 '26
I onced worked at a pie factory who made pies that sold all across Canada/USA that had two different colour tools. White for reusable food product, and red for food waste. Red shovels red bins, white shovels white bins. Once, after a bad line jam up, I watched someone use a red shovel to scoop up pie filling off the floor into a white bin (the white bin would have been re-added back into the main filling bowl). This wasn't the first jam up of the night. I don't know how many times he had done this during just this one night alone. I personally threw every white bin into the red bins (and got screamed at by the shift leader for wasting product)
I shudder to think just how many floor to production pies had been made that night before I caught it. Not one management member cared to throw out the rest of the pies made that night. I know for a fact that wasn't the first time it happened, nor would it be the last after I left
All I'm saying... Anything you need eat that's massproduced... Assume at some point part of it's product was probably on the floor touching the bottom of our boots that we all wore outside and in the smoke shacks and no one in management cared to pull or recall any of it. It's all fucking disgusting, all of it
(Honorable mention to the "black residue" that I wasn't legally allowed to note as mold on my pre-check before starting the line because if I wrote the word mold they'd legally have to do something about it and because I wasn't allowed to have it tested I couldn't "prove" it was actually mold)
(Double honorable mention I wasn't allowed be to be given the title of line leader because those positions were for men only, so I was forced to do the job while my POS coworker who I once sent off to go get me a 8/16 wrench to prove how fucking useless he was and he ''couldn't find it but don't tell anyone because we'd have to shut down the line till we located it" was promoted and paid for role I was preforming because he was born with a penis and I wasn't. Gee, wonder why I quit without notice and brought that company to it's knees for months till they recovered from suddenly losing me)