The sweatshop I work at in Texas processes hospital laundry. I was just recently a scale operator who was demoted after working at the scale for two months (only getting paid the rate for it for one paycheck out of 4 pay periods so far as well -_- ), since apparently I “complained too much”. Of which some of my “complaints” were suggestions for reducing the scansheets down to only those barcodes we actually have orders for or frequently do, which would reduce 35 pages of wasted paper and toner down to 3 pages at most.
The last “complaint” that I made before being demoted was regarding the laundry carts in which the soiled linen is both shipped to and from the sweatshop within, of which the cart washing machine doesn't dry the carts — so any carts which are dry within the clean cart zone have been moved from soiled side to the “clean” cart zone on production without having been washed. And I've seen multiple coworkers doing this too, not merely the obvious litmus test of dry carts being unwashed. So after that, they removed me from the scale and cut my pay back. Yay. -_-
Those carts potentially contain whatever biohazards sick patients had while being on/in the linen that soiled side shoves into the poop-soup of the washers (of which on sheets, in production side, sometimes whole turds can be found, perhaps from hospital patients who ate too much cheese or something binding otherwise.) Either way, the unwashed carts are being loaded with “clean” linen and shipped back to the hospital.
I've so far tried suggesting to another office bureaucrat that an engineering approach be applied, namely narrowing the doors to prevent unwashed carts from being passed through from soiled to production, but haven't heard anything yet. Who knows, they'll probably fire me and I won't have to endure another 120°F + 100% humidity summer in the glorious sweatshop again. But this could still lead to further disease among the weakened hospital patients, so it's like should I bother with OSHA (or what agency otherwise would supposedly be useful?) or are they all just as corrupt and useless as the sweatshops they let get away with practically anything?