Ok, I need to speak up better at work. I do need to think about the fact that a couple of the co-workers that work there have gotten into trouble before for yelling at them and still work there. I guess I have fear in me that makes me not want to speak up.

The other day my supervisor was prepping up food for a big event. He had no gloves on putting ready to eat foods on platters, I happen to see him pick through it and eat it too while setting them up. I felt grossed out and know I should of said something. I have noticed in the past that him and others prep up ready to eat food with no gloves and I have no clue if they wash their hands.

Which another incident happened where a co worker had dropped a ham on the dirty kitchen floor and rinsed it and still sliced it instead of making the better choice of throwing it away. I spoke to my manager and he didn't do anything about it. He seemed to think I was nuts speaking up about that.

I happen to be the head baker at a nursing home/assistant living place. After 8 years of food service at jobs and school I pay quite a bit attention to the sanitation. I think that they need to think even more deeply when working at a nursing home since the elderly are twice as likely to get sick and the effects are twice as back compared to a middle aged adult. My supervisor and manager need to know better already.

Another thing that bothers me is that the co-workers ( cooks, servers and plus my supervisor and manager) take cookies out of the freezer that I put in bags for workers to pick up for residents down the other wings. These are not leftovers and are waiting to be eaten by the people who live there. I feel irritated by that and know that it has become a habit. I know they take them because they leave the bags open in the freezer which bothers me because they loose their texture and become hard. The bags are left open on a daily basis; each time I see my supervisor and manager walk out of the freezer, plus the cooks.

I would think these people would know better though when I do speak up they do look at me and speak to me as though my perspective is wrong a lot of the time.

I am frustrated and want to see what approaches you would take upon these situations. And maybe take a different approach.

I am thinking of taking my supervisor aside in a office and talk together about my thoughts upon these situations. I would like the whole dietary department to start using sanitary gloves when touching ready to eat foods. I think that I will talk about these separately instead of these two situations all at once considering I know that my supervisor gets frustrated quickly. First about the safety and then later about the cookies even though the cookie situation I have been frustrated with for a while. If he wants to argue that he is fine then I'll give an example if he was in a situation of a person touching his food at a restaurant like that and see what he says.

Thanks!