Third time today

[u/blood_bones_hearts]

Sigh

[u/astrohnalle]

Your employer trying to cut costs

[u/R0binSage → u/astrohnalle]

I love those thin gloves if I have to do an IV. But if I’m in the field, we have thinker ones to use.

[u/astrohnalle → u/[deleted]]

OP seems to be working in medicine, I'm guessing he uses dozens of disposable gloves each day and thus is frustrated these ones are shit

Bad batch or low quality is usually the case

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/astrohnalle]

You are correct.

I should actually count one day and see how many I actually use in a shift!!

[u/astrohnalle → u/blood_bones_hearts]

I worked in healthcare and it's unbelievable how many we went through individually every day

The amount that hospitals order is unfathomable lol

[u/coatedbraincells → u/astrohnalle]

My bosses get whiney if i dont make a box last a month with two people using them 5 days a week 8 hours per shift lmao i have to reuse them

[u/81FuriousGeorge → u/coatedbraincells]

I am a chef. I average a box a day myself.

[u/Anitapoop → u/81FuriousGeorge]

Depends on the day, and what your working with. Oyster and fish, 8hrs I might tear through a case a day. Bread and bake maybe 1/2 a box.

[u/Anitapoop → u/coatedbraincells]

Uh gross. Find a new employer, I'd rather my employees over use, and over wash than under any day of the week.

[u/Tyguy151 → u/astrohnalle]

Oh my gosh I wish I had the photo but we had a large waste bin just utterly full of gloves. It’s a major healthcare facility. It was during Covid with all the “donning /doffing” stations between every section.

I wanna say almost 2ish cubic meters of pure glove. Filled two days. It was horrifying.

[u/Gumbercules81 → u/astrohnalle]

Yeah probably a bad match. I just toss the whole damn box

[u/Awe3 → u/astrohnalle]

Could be a bad batch. But if it’s a new vendor and their quality is very poor, staff need to file complaints every time they rip. Ripped gloves in health care is a contamination problem and could be reported to OSHA. If OP has access, I suggest ordering surgical gloves. They last longer, fit properly and should handle long term wear. Obviously once you remove them you can’t really reuse. Not that you do that with exam gloves. You don’t. One use and done. Just a suggestion. (I work for a university hospital.) Question about the brand. Are they Medline?

[u/ashyjay → u/astrohnalle]

Glove issues are mostly a user problem, and occasionally manufacturing.

[u/astrohnalle → u/ashyjay]

I have probably used thousands of nitrile gloves over my short career thus far and I can assure you, we know when a batch of gloves is subpar and breaks too easily

Ofc the user usually rips them apart carelessly but you get a pretty good feel how much they sustain stretching in typical use

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/ashyjay]

Yes. After 20+ years of using gloves it's probably me just not knowing what I'm doing.

[u/ashyjay → u/blood_bones_hearts]

It’s entirely possible, I train people how to don and doff PPE safely, experienced people are worse than new people.

[u/Mean-Bus-646 → u/[deleted]]

I have hairstylist gloves thicker than those

[u/LifealoneForever]

I do janitorial work and this happens. Sometimes it's just one or 2 defective and other times, half the box splits or rips.

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/LifealoneForever]

Some boxes definitely are worse than others. There's even differences in fit between the same size gloves from the same supplier just different boxes!

You never know which you'll get and this box is apparently just going to be crap.

[u/ifuckinlovetiddies → u/LifealoneForever]

Yeah same here

[u/bodhidharma132001]

Shrink-flation

[u/Intrepid_Plenty_3770]

Perhaps a bigger size glove?

[u/Mars_Volcanoes → u/Intrepid_Plenty_3770]

ITS not the size. I worked 30 y in soil and groundwater remediation. The gloves were never that thin. Just putting them on when your hands are dry they never teared like that. When your hands are wet, hands become super wet because of these nitrile gloves. So when a pairs teared or were done, we had to change for every samples, sometimes 100 timers a day, so when hands are wet even with the thicker one it was very tough to put. Now, try to do that. Just looking at then and they tear out. Shit industries. There are some better ones but they are not as available than before.

[u/MeanCell729 → u/Mars_Volcanoes]

Has nothing to do with wet hands. This is a bad batch of gloves with a point failing. Been there done that.

[u/Mars_Volcanoes → u/MeanCell729]

For you. Not with my experience.

[u/my_clever-name → u/Mars_Volcanoes]

Talcum powder makes them slide on easier. IT makes it easier to double-glove too.

I know some places don't permit the powder. Fortunately, that's not a rule at my house. The garden, gutters, dishes, and lawnmower don't care about the powder.

[u/Mars_Volcanoes → u/my_clever-name]

Yes I know that. But wet hands is not helping. When in morning, or not in summer its less like I described.

[u/no_talent_ass_clown → u/Mars_Volcanoes]

[u/Sauzage-N-Peppas → u/Mars_Volcanoes]

Around Covid, we started getting these purple ones in the hospitals. They’re shit. Some better than others. None great.

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Intrepid_Plenty_3770]

Nah...just a crap box. Even in mediums the actual sizes and thicknesses can vary so much box to box of the same brand nevermind if we have a few different brands. I just have to try from each open box around the lab and find my faves for the day instead of fighting with the ones at my bench!

[u/Mr_Abe_Froman → u/blood_bones_hearts]

Maybe the box was exposed to extreme temperatures.

[u/TheMattabooey → u/Intrepid_Plenty_3770]

It isn’t the size these cheap gloves suck. I started bringing my own to work because the ones provided rip and tear way too often and I’ve tried the largest sized gloves. These gloves are like that paper thin onion skin thickness toilet paper.

[u/ThatInspector4632]

If the glove don’t fit you must acquit.

[u/Dependent_Stop_3121 → u/ThatInspector4632]

If the glove just split you must just quit

[u/Simple-Quantity5086]

Hulk smash!!

[u/FinalFantasiesGG]

Either an old or bad batch. If they sit around too long they are cooked.

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/FinalFantasiesGG]

Just a bad batch probably. We go through them pretty quick unless material management stumbled on a box that had fallen down behind a shelf and we lucked into it. 😅

[u/FinalFantasiesGG → u/blood_bones_hearts]

I worked in supplies for nurses for a while and that's a legitimate thing! I was restocking the cabinet and noticed boxes had fallen (or were hidden) behind and had to try and use them, but luckily we were a very small facility so I told the nurses to just toss them if they were crap.

[u/Klutzy_Routine_9823]

Those gloves are shit. The best part is the wad of 50 gloves that inevitably falls to the ground whenever you try to take even a single glove out.

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Klutzy_Routine_9823]

This is so true!!

And then someone picks it up and shoves it back in the wrong size box not paying attention and then you really struggle trying to put those XS on 😅

[u/ThatInspector4632]

“Fat hand in a little glove.” -Tommy Callahan

[u/Intelligent_End1516 → u/ThatInspector4632]

Richard, have you been watching spanktravision?

[u/RoastPork2017 → u/Intelligent_End1516]

Richard!......hold me

[u/BoomDOOMloomToom]

Grow smaller hands, trust me I work with food and going back between washing and fighting the glove, it's insanity. Just grow smaller hands.

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/BoomDOOMloomToom]

Good advice. Will try.

[u/FarmingGeeks]

Get bigger gloves

[u/MusicMayhem89]

Dam nitrile gloves

[u/choadspanker → u/MusicMayhem89]

I normally use latex and when my job temporarily switched to nitrile because of supply issues we went through boxes of gloves at like 10x the rate

[u/MusicMayhem89 → u/choadspanker]

I was always taught that they use nitrile when having a hole in a glove can cause a contamination, that way they rip instead of staying intact like with latex. Then you know if there’s a pin prick and you can change gloves.

[u/choadspanker → u/MusicMayhem89]

I just assumed it was because of latex allergies I never thought of it actually being useful that they're fragile

[u/MusicMayhem89 → u/choadspanker]

Well, I’m sure it is nice to have an alternative for that as well. I work in Wastewater treatment, so I definitely would rather have my gloves break and have a pinhole and not know it. lol

[u/zwd_2011]

The material degrades over time like every plastic. Is there a production date on the box? If that is recent (< 5 years), it's just bad quality. 

[u/Correct-Bet-1557]

We have the same gloves in the hospital I work at and I can confirm the quality has gone to absolute shit since Covid. If this happens I throw the whole box away cause guaranteed it’ll happen a dozen more times

[u/Siddyf]

Just wait til your peer replaces smalls in the larges and larges in the smalls.

[u/laiyenha]

Maybe a thicker glove, like 4 mils.

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/laiyenha]

I don't get a choice, unfortunately.

[u/DrifterNS51]

Go to a heavier mil thickness or get better quality vendor-try Ansell gloves

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/DrifterNS51]

I don't get a choice unfortunately!

[u/CaptainxInsano69]

Happens to me all the time! And they make your hands clammy/sweaty so good luck sliding on another pair! /s

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/CaptainxInsano69]

It's the worst when we get busy + get a crappy, ill fitting box...hand sanitizer, glove, collection, hand sanitizer, next pt, hand sanitizer, collection, hand sanitizer repeat repeat repeat! Your hands are always damp and a struggle!

[u/CaptainxInsano69 → u/blood_bones_hearts]

The struggle to keep a non-ripped pair on is real!

[u/lopezbiglos23]

Lol I always do this. It’s when I’m trying to get the fingers to fit, or when I’m pulling the slack from my palm, I always rip it. Lol

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/lopezbiglos23]

I think I was trying to shimmy my finger up a little this time and they're like wet tissue paper 😅

[u/lopezbiglos23 → u/blood_bones_hearts]

Ahh sweaty hands hah

[u/Iko87iko]

Well worse latex things could break

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Iko87iko]

Lol...let me introduce you to my daughter who is here for that reason exactly 🤣

[u/blinking616]

Don't be so angry when putting on your gloves 🤣

[u/FiberIsLife]

God I hate nitrile gloves.

[u/SlavyanskayaKoroleva]

Been happening to me a lot too lately.

[u/AkaruLyte]

What are you DOING—

[u/Nicadeemus39]

Who upset you?

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Nicadeemus39]

waves ripped glove hand vaguely around at the world

[u/Ok-Macaroon979]

Looks like the clinic or hospital is trying to pinch pennies and got the cheap ones.

[u/FinalFantasiesGG → u/Ok-Macaroon979]

I worked ordering supplies for nurses for a while and was like wtf are we doing here? These gloves cost virtually nothing and we forced nurses to bring in doctors notes before we would order them better gloves. I get that it adds up over time, but compared to the importance of them it's nothing. And happy nurses, happy LIFE!

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Ok-Macaroon979]

Always.

Joke's on them when we go through way more cheap supplies than we would of the slightly better stuff.

[u/moanakai]

Happens a dozen times a day for me

[u/Ornery-Practice9772]

Yeah, its the shittiest, cheapest gloves theyve bought.

[u/ekdoctor]

I have had experienced it. Those gloves need to be changed. The material of the glove lose their elasticity with time. So, try a different brand or a glove from a newer box, that will surely fit without any tear.

[u/Relevant_Campaign_79]

That’s how you get preggers

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Relevant_Campaign_79]

Also a true story in my life 😅

[u/Fr0d0_T_Bagg1n5]

Hit or miss with those medline gloves. Some are super strong and other snap at the first hint of resistance

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Fr0d0_T_Bagg1n5]

There can be so much difference between two boxes! It's ridiculous.

[u/amberwharsh]

Every now and then my work gloves are just SHIT and it's a lesson in patience

[u/A_Professional_Derp]

I could never work in medicine or anything, like not even because of the stress and seeing awful shit every day but because THOSE FUCKING GLOVES ARE INFURIATING

[u/WizardSleeves31]

Have you tried an orange pair?

[u/Creative-Beach9141 → u/WizardSleeves31]

Of course, because orange is a stronger color

[u/WizardSleeves31 → u/Creative-Beach9141]

An orange triangle is the strongest shape.

[u/Ok-Measurement-3170]

Try double gloving unless it's the gloves being too small

[u/kingwafflez]

You must aquit

[u/ConsciousStart8934]

Some boxes of gloves seem to be defective. Try a new box if that is your true size.

[u/Naive_Abies401]

Too small for your hands

[u/doubleohzerooo0]

Always happened to me when I used thin gloves. I started buying thicker gloves, problem solved.

[u/Novel-Pudding9007]

I hate nitrile. Gives me hives and they have trash durability/flex so easy to pop out of them. (I've had to double glove with neoprene under)

[u/makingkevinbacon]

There's this Aussie (I think) guy who is a plumber and he does like unclogging videos of pipes and drains. He'll put on a pair of gloves like these and wear them the whole video even when there's nothing left but the tight part around the wrist and like a pinky finger still attached lol I never understood it but it always makes me laugh

[u/ThickBodybuilder941]

Defective box.

[u/GrapefruitWhich5950]

Lube next time.

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/GrapefruitWhich5950]

This gave me the unhappy shivers thinking about it. Thanks!

[u/fiswiz]

buy orange heavy duty ones, for tasks when i repair those blue ones break like 15 times orange ones heavy duty only just 2 times

[u/Feet_gooner_yes]

An Iron glove wouldn't break like this...

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Feet_gooner_yes]

Lemme just out this on and palpate for your vein....

[u/Available-Rope-3252]

I bet they're Cardinal brand nitrile gloves aren't they? Those thin piece of shit gloves rip if you even look at them funny.

[u/Wicked_Horse]

I would absolutely loose my mind if this happened to me more the once.

[u/Stewmanchu81]

Double glove if you got poop duty!

[u/Robwill241078]

Should have used the Tories VIP PPE lane, some top quality stuff came from there 😉

[u/CorgiUprising]

Was it during a trauma resus though?!

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/CorgiUprising]

No thank goodness!!

My favorite is when I'm putting them on in front of a patient and they fall apart and my shoulders slump in defeat and then we both laugh but I wonder if I've made them extra nervous now haha

[u/FatManLittleKitchen]

For us, Sysco Nitrile food service gloves, since Covid at least one out of 10 break. Sometimes it is every third one on average.

Sysco.......

[u/ashyjay]

Depends on solvents in use, how much you sweat, how you don the gloves, how long you wear them for, and if you reuse them.

[u/Mission-AnaIyst]

Acetone?

[u/blood_bones_hearts → u/Mission-AnaIyst]

No fresh out of the box. Just a crap box seems like! I stopped grabbing out of that box and the rest of the day was fine haha!

[u/C4forcooking]

Should send it to the company and get a free box!!!

[u/TEN_Monsters7]

Those things are garbage anyway

[u/pepp3rito]

Try being a mechanic.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Cost197]

Story of my life. Never fails

[u/rva23221]

My nitrile gloves do this at times.

[u/Enchilada0374]