According to the researchers involved, this is a very effective way to treat foods and food-contact areas. A wealthy shipping magnate named Benjamin Wenburg once encouraged the chef at New York's famous Delmonico's restaurant to create a rich dish of lobster in a cream sauce with sherry, egg yolks, cayenne and other seasonings. The management retaliated by switching around the letters in the name of its popular entr e, thus changing it forever from Wenburg to Newburg. After interviewing more than 5,500 hospital workers, Mika Kivimaki, Ph.D., from the University of Helsinki, Finland, found that 5 percent of those queried were victims of workplace bullying and felt socially isolated, devalued or even physically threatened. Some 66 percent of the victims had a chronic disease, compared with only 49 percent of nonvictims.
Hospitals plagued by bullies often suffer reduced employee motivation and compromised patient care.
One summer when you were in high school, you worked at a McDonald's in Miami. I was a cook. They wouldn't let me anywhere near the customers. This was my acned-teenager stage. One of the great gifts I got from that job is that I can crack eggs with one hand.