Dumbest food safety thing you've seen a coworker do?
I have two stories, 1 recent, 1 a while back. And I want to hear yours.
First one takes a bit of setup. We have a pot roast that we offer for lunch and dinner, its a facility gig, not a restaurant so maybe back off the culinary side and focus on the food safety.
The pot roast is already cooked and comes in a bag. Now for most days, we cut it in half, save the juices/fat and put it into a pan and cook it on low for an hour or so to bring it up to temp and soften it a bit more. Its not great, but its not terrible for what it is.
Well 1 night a week its on special, so depending on patient count we generally throw 2 or 3 pot roasts in, still in the bag as designed.
Well, I guess my coworker fired 3, and only used 2. I discovered this because the next morning I grab a bag of pot roast and the fat looks wrong, and when I open the bag, the meat isn't cold. My dumbass of a coworker took the hot, sealed in a bag pot roast and threw it back into the cardboard box in the fridge. Thankfully there wasn't another pot roast in the box. I temped it, and guestimating on the timing*, but 13 hours later it was 77 degrees.
Its not something we're supposed to save anyways, but they just attempted to in probably the stupidest way possible and I'm thankful I'm the one who found it the next morning since I have coworkers who probably wouldn't have noticed and killed someone.
Second story is much quicker, and maybe more disgusting. Just had a dude who's primary job was frying chicken, which we breaded in house. Well his secondary job was firing frozen veg in the steamer. This mother fucker would keep his chicken covered gloves on while handing veg out of the steamer to the window.