ServSafe Certifying
esterday, I had the dubious pleasure of re-certifying in the Michigan state health code for restaurant workers. Last week, the Owners of the Restaurant Where I Work© handed the morning cashier and I the text books for the class and said, “Hey, you two have a week to learn the entirety of the Michigan state health code! Aren’t you happy?” To which we replied, “Oh. Thanks. 
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So, Sunday night I closed the restaurant and went straight home and to bed, because the class was at the gawd-awful hour of 8am the next morning. I ended up waking up again around 2am, tossing and turning for a couple more hours, and finally giving up and getting up at 4am, for a grand total of about two and a half hours of sleep. Joy. And then, just to add to the fun, my sinuses were packed full and my head was pounding, so I took a sinus pill.
The class was sooooooooo boring. Between the lack of sleep and the sinus meds, I was a zombie. I slept through about an hour of class by accident. Dozed right off in the chair. The morning cashier was laughing her ass off at me when I woke up. I was like, “OMG, I wasn’t snoring, was I?!” 
By the time we got to the part where we actually took the certification test, nine hours later, we were so sick and tired of the whole thing that we didn’t even care if we passed the test anymore. Fortunately, we both think we did pretty well. It’s not a very hard test — the majority of it is common sense, although you have to memorize some of the holding and reheating temperatures, and some of the various bacteria that cause food-borne illness. All in all, glad to have that over with. We should get our test scores back in two weeks.
Here, have a music video: I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) — Meat Loaf
(Photo credit: Hand Washing Sign.)
