[netcoyote]

When I worked at Lyon’s Restaurant (a slightly upscale Denny’s, to my mind) as a dishwasher, the heavy-duty rubber gloves they provided were frequently wet enough inside that mold formed rapidly. Only put the awful things on once or twice before giving up on them because they were so unpleasant!

[ido]

Would disposable gloves (like the kind you can get 100 for $5-10) not withstand the heat or chemicals?

[netcoyote]

I expect disposable gloves would have worked, but they weren't provided, and as a naive 17-year old I was way too dumb to ask.

For reference on my stupidity, around the same time I mixed chlorine bleach and hydrogen peroxide to make a stronger cleaning agent and independently discovered that chlorine gas is really nasty stuff! Wow -- only did that once!

It wasn't all bad. Several times I got to fill a 2'x2'x3' bin with strawberries after cutting off the bad bits, and ate several pounds of them each time. For non-Americans, that's around 40 kilos, but as an American I don't know much about the metric system, so that might be a few grams off :)

[redundantly]

Water will just get in at the wrist and then the moisture is trapped in the glove, which could be worse.

[shmeeed]

Versions with longer sleeves exist for this exact reason.

[tomcam]

Not when I was a kid, or at least that my parents were willing to buy. Plus I had to clean all the fucking ashtrays. Those gloves got gross af by day 2.

We had a dishwasher but I wasn’t allowed to use it. Too loud.