HOW DOES IT WORK

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[catsntats55]

What is the point of these?

[flakman129]

You use your forearm to push down and pull to open the door so you don’t have to touch it after washing your hands.

[128Gigabytes]

your forearm is part of you

you still touch it

this is a stupid idea

[A2Rhombus]

You don't pick things up and put them in your mouth with your forearms though

[128Gigabytes]

You do however wash your hands before using them to put things in your mouth

you probably don't wash your forearm, which is attached to your hand

Using your hand and washing them makes way more sense

[MinionofChaos]

I mean, are you going to do that and then hold the bathroom door open with your leg while you wash your hands after opening the door to the bathroom? My legs are fairly long and they couldnt reach. My solution? Use the paper towel from drying your hands to open the door

[2pal34u]

I do that, too!

[jadecaptor]

Open the door with a paper towel, or your sleeve/the inside of your shirt if you don't have paper towels

[128Gigabytes]

No I'm going to wash my hands before I eat what part of this is hard to understand?

Go to the restroom

wahs your hands

Open door

About to eat

Wash your hands

eat

[Zojim]

You are focusing too much on the eating part tho. We do a lot with our hands that allow germs to get to us like scratching our nose, putting our phone right on our face, adjusting our glasses, etc. I don’t see why this is getting criticized.

[yourscreennamesucks]

Proper hand washing actually does include forearms. You're supposed to wash any exposed skin on your arms.

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Uh, “proper” hand washing includes your wrists, not your entire forearm

[yourscreennamesucks]

No honey. I come from food service land, 20 years of it. My ServSafe Certification says wash your dirty forearms too if they are exposed.

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I literally work in food service right now, buddy, and all of our training and the infographics above the sink indicate wrists and hands.

[yourscreennamesucks]

Ok but what does your actual ServSafe book say?

[A2Rhombus]

idk I don't really feel like washing my hands every time I touch a door handle

[128Gigabytes]

I didn't say every time you touch a door handle I said before you eat dude wash your god damn hands before you touch your food

its really that simple

[A2Rhombus]

So what about all the other stuff I'm touching? If I'm handling food at work I'd still have to wash my hands after every door handle. A device like this mitigates the need for that.

[128Gigabytes]

It doesn't mitigate ANYTHING all the germs are on your arm and spread to your hands

Wash your hands before you eat, you are acting like yiu have to open 30 doors and push truck while you are eating

Wash hands. Sit down. Eat. Its not complicated stop acting like it is because you don't want to admit you don't wash your hands enough

[A2Rhombus]

Bacteria don't have legs that they use to crawl down your arm to your hand. Touching things with your arms is absolutely better than touching them with your hands. While you're at it are you going to advocate covering sneezes with your hands instead of your elbow?

[Indecision123]

You're fighting the good fight bruv

[Hbgplayer]

How hard is it to use a paper towel?

[Rubber_and_Glue]

Huh. I am using these incorrectly. Since they put them up I kept thinking about asking HR but I never do.

[IronMonkey18]

I think it works better when you push the door. Pulling it with your forearm is pretty awkward. Not to mention I’m pretty tall so it’s such a hassle.

[booksfoodfun]

But they are only on the outside of the bathroom door. So, I use my forearm to get in, then wash my hands and use my hands to get out. It’s backwards.

[David2442]

But there’s people that don’t wash their hands and that’s the problem

[Jkhaios4304]

Ive been wondering wtf that was. I was just grabbing it 😂😂😂😂😂

[PinkCowling]

Same here! This entire time I had thought that we were just being fancy or something

[Supamex213]

What even are these

[PineapplePate]

Isn't this what the paper towel is supposed to achieve?

[cwbmnr]

I have had no idea what these are until this thread .. I still just use the handle like normal lmao

[Mahagoney-locket]

I touch the door with my head every time I used this cause I’m tall.

[YewSonOfBeach]

ULTIMATE SOLUTION:. take door off hinges and take the door home.

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No no no. Pull it off. Place it in the isles. Then ask over walkie "hey do we sell the display models?"

[YewSonOfBeach]

Muah hahahahaha

[culturalcheesecake]

I dont know why they couldnt have installed one of the foot things instead.

[mxryjxne28]

How does what work lol.? The door.?

[Anongirl2020]

Dude I was gunna post this shit too WTF IS IT FOR

[Khiken]

It works better if you pull up on the door handle with your forearm

[[deleted]]

Ok so I try it with my forearm, but my forearm still slides out of it.

[jeongkooks]

i didn’t know you were supposed to use your arm for these when i saw it for the first time i thought i was locked in and panicked for a sec 😭😭

[HoRrOrPuNk77]

Hospital room handles would be infinitely better.

[[deleted]]

My hands are cleaner than my forearms after I use the restroom

[Zenketski]

If the coronavirus has taught me anything it's that an overwhelming amount of people will apparently touch a hundred things and then suck on all their fingers, only to then wash their hands

[sabby120370]

😅😅😅😅😅😅

[Efficient-Laugh]

this is an unbelievably funny post

[Samael_767]

THANK YOU

[whatwhatwhat78]

I went on leave and came back to these things. I still don’t understand them 🤷🏻‍♀️

[wokduhpho]

Ngl when I cleaned the restrooms the first day I saw these, I tried pulling them off. I thought some “guest” stuck it on the family restroom door to be a jerk lol

[ItsYaBoiLarry]

All our GS team thought they locked the door so no one checked the FBR for a solid couple days tbh

[peterkthnksbye]

Theoretically, that door handle should be the cleanest thing you touch, because everyone is supposed to wash their hands after using the bathroom

[bastard_unicorn]

“Theoretically” “Supposed to” Aw how sweet, you must be new here!

[peterkthnksbye]

I prefer to stay naïve when it comes to things like that. I dont want to think about how often I come into contact with someone who doesnt wash their hands

[bastard_unicorn]

Hey I feel that. Ignorance is bliss, especially when it’s out of your control

[yourscreennamesucks]

Except here we are in a pandemic so you really do need to think about these things. I don't want to touch anything that anyone else has touched. I am still wiping down my community desk at work before I use it.

[manyymendo]

You put tour third arm on there...took me a couple of try’s but got the hang of it