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[killing_rose]

 So. School's back in session, and we're going green. This isn't a bad thing. 

What my aching fingers are really pissed off by is the fact that--as part of this effort to go green (which is to say, "Save money, but save face")--our dining services have implemented a program where you pick up a reusable to-go container if you're taking your food and running. I picked up mine today and grabbed salad.

As I went to close the latch, my fingers couldn't do it. They don't have the strength. I had to basically trap the damn thing with my body and slam it. As was, it bounced off of my fingers, made my finger joints ache trying to close it, and nearly went flying. 

Can we say ow? Okay, so it just got opened, it hadn't been bent before, it'll fix itself. I am an optimist. I also had a major brain failure (that would be the pain, thanks!) . Because it came with the latch already closed. It hadn't been hard to open, but trust me, as I finished my lunch a few minutes ago, it was still terribly hard to close.

I foresee this being a massive problem. 

And no, we're not allowed to use our own damned tupperware. A couple years ago when I was too sick to do much more than live off their soups, I used to have to petition--every time--to get them to let me bring my own bowl to take to go. 

Comments

[rainbow]

They have nothing in place for people with hand strength and fine motor control issues, and they think that's reasonable?

It might be worth writing up a very formal complaint to dining services and disability servies, because that's ridiculous.

[killing_rose]

I think that I'll discuss it with the head of dining services at some point though I might run into one of the other people I have not endeared myself to before that. (Apparently, pointing out just how not okay screwing up food is annoys people. Who knew?)

[amadi]

Are these containers returned dirty to be run through the conventional dishwasher or something? I'm trying to logically parse why these containers are okay and personal containers are not.

[killing_rose]

They are to be returned to be run through the commercial dishwasher, yes. After one too many times getting sick because of said dishwasher (it doesn't get everything and gluten is a tenacious protein), mine will not be going through. I know how to clean containers and I'd like to have a personal container, not grab one that fourteen other people have used this week. (They cannot tell the difference. I'll pay the damned 4 bucks and use it if only I can figure out how to close the thing without crying.)

And, apparently, if you leave it closed too long, it's hard to open. I am steadfastedly ~not~ attempting to kill whoever came up with these torture devices.

[jalendavi_lady]

And these are the one set of food containers going through the dishwasher most likely to have been handled by the ill *and* contagious who had helpful friends go and collect food to bring to them? Which was exactly what happened for a number of people in my school's 'not quite the flu' epidemic one year -- thank goodness we weren't using anything communally reusable that semester, it would have spread three times as fast as it did.

I wouldn't be using the communal ones if I were there, and I don't have food allergies.

[jesse_the_k]

Having not advocated in response to around a dozen opportunities this month, I won't advise you to do anything but shut the door and scream the fuck loud.

Cause that's better than letting it stew, like some unwashed acid, in the corners of one's soul.