diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/openqa_stg b/inventory/group_vars/openqa_stg
index a578d4a501..c494ff3e22 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/openqa_stg
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/openqa_stg
@@ -40,9 +40,6 @@ openqa_extraarches: true
 # ON THE EDGE (radical guitar riff)
 openqa_repo: updates-testing
 
-# 2020-04-29/30 git bump scratch build
-openqa_scratch: ["43922990"]
-
 wikitcms_token: "{{ private }}/files/openidc/staging/wikitcms.json"
 openqa_wikitcms_hostname: stg.fedoraproject.org
 openqa_resultsdb_url: http://resultsdb-stg01.qa.fedoraproject.org/resultsdb_api/api/v2.0/
diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/openqa_stg_workers b/inventory/group_vars/openqa_stg_workers
index 78c6599826..599a980339 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/openqa_stg_workers
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/openqa_stg_workers
@@ -15,8 +15,5 @@ openqa_env: staging
 # staging, we live ON THE EDGE (radical guitar riff)
 openqa_repo: updates-testing
 
-# 2020-04-29/30 git bump scratch builds
-openqa_scratch: ["43922990", "43946288"]
-
 deployment_type: stg
 freezes: false
diff --git a/roles/openqa/worker/tasks/main.yml b/roles/openqa/worker/tasks/main.yml
index 7100422aac..0090b51a78 100644
--- a/roles/openqa/worker/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/openqa/worker/tasks/main.yml
@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@
 
 - name: Remove scratch repo directory
   file: path=/var/tmp/scratchrepo state=absent
-  # HACK HACK HACK FIXME
-  notify:
-  - restart openqa workers
 
 - name: (Re-)create scratch repo directory
   file: path=/var/tmp/scratchrepo state=directory owner=root group=root