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BetteTheRed said:
In the latest "what fresh hell is this?" report on the overuse of hand sanitizer on human hands: right palm is covered in eczema, three fingers on the left hand are peeling. And this is with at least three, usually closer to six, applications of hand cream per shift, plus going to bed at night with vaseline and cotton gloves on my hands.
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Sorry to hear that...hopefully you can find some relief soon
 
BetteTheRed said:
In the latest "what fresh hell is this?" report on the overuse of hand sanitizer on human hands: right palm is covered in eczema, three fingers on the left hand are peeling. And this is with at least three, usually closer to six, applications of hand cream per shift, plus going to bed at night with vaseline and cotton gloves on my hands.
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I suspect that my hands would be in pretty rough shape if I was going to work. They don't do well in winter (lots of chapping and cracking on the knuckles) without regular applications of Aveeno as it is. Add in regular use of hand sanitizer and it would not be pretty.
 
BetteTheRed said:
In the latest "what fresh hell is this?" report on the overuse of hand sanitizer on human hands: right palm is covered in eczema, three fingers on the left hand are peeling. And this is with at least three, usually closer to six, applications of hand cream per shift, plus going to bed at night with vaseline and cotton gloves on my hands.
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Can you wear nitrile gloves while working? If handing over receipts there's another reason for it too!
 
I could, if I could manage with them; sadly, I cannot. I am clumsy without gloves, a disaster with them.

And if you don't change them between every customer (and I sanitize my hands between pretty well every customer, guaranteed if I've touched cash), you're just spreading potential germs everywhere. And hand sanitizer and gloves are a sorta melt-y combination.

So, I suffer, but not in silence....

(And Loblaws is the first chain to commit to Phenol-free receipt paper by the end of this year.)
 
BetteTheRed said:
I could, if I could manage with them; sadly, I cannot. I am clumsy without gloves, a disaster with them.

And if you don't change them between every customer (and I sanitize my hands between pretty well every customer, guaranteed if I've touched cash), you're just spreading potential germs everywhere. And hand sanitizer and gloves are a sorta melt-y combination.

So, I suffer, but not in silence....

(And Loblaws is the first chain to commit to Phenol-free receipt paper by the end of this year.)
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Ethanol and most other alcohols and nitrile gloves isn't an issue. In the lab we used to pretty much soak gloves in 70% ethanol when working with cell cultures.
I hear you on the clumsiness though, being able to fully feel stuff can help with dexterity.
I didn't know that about the receipts, I hadn't heard of any company switching unless it was to something very different that what we think of in terms of a typical receipt - ie. electronic options, full print outs
 
Yes, the ones we use now tout that they are BPA-free, but they use BPS instead. I would think that you'd have to change the printers, to start with. It'll be interesting. We're getting rid of single use plastic on the same timeline, so I wonder how different my work station will look next year.
 
One of my kids developed a brutal bout of eczema when he started using sanitiser. Both hands were red and swollen and the cracks allowed infection in. A dermatologist gave him antibiotics plus a miracle cream that almost fixed the problem.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I would think that you'd have to change the printers, to start with. It'll be interesting.
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So back in the 90s, when I managed IT at the library, I bought some nice Epson thermal printers for doing the date due slips. And one of our Chinese groceries, over twenty years later, still uses basically the same model. And London Public uses pretty much the same barcode scanner that I was deploying before I left the library where I worked (in fact, I think the programming sheet we used was originally created for them). Not all tech changes rapidly, in other words.
 
Mendalla said:
So back in the 90s, when I managed IT at the library, I bought some nice Epson thermal printers for doing the date due slips. And one of our Chinese groceries, over twenty years later, still uses basically the same model. And London Public uses pretty much the same barcode scanner that I was deploying before I left the library where I worked (in fact, I think the programming sheet we used was originally created for them). Not all tech changes rapidly, in other words.
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Agreed, and sometimes we prematurely abandon good technology.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Agreed, and sometimes we prematurely abandon good technology.
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I served breakfast to two of the original MS Code designers at one time. Amazing how similar the discussions were about rushed technology.

Anybody read; Fast and Slow Thinking? Something to slow down and be fastidious about ...
 
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not long ago I read that plain goat's milk kefir is better than any cream for skin conditions/irritations (and it can be taken internally too for added benefit)
 
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