Nursery workers drinking at lunchtime.

You really should speak to the nursery manager about this. It is a safety issue.

It is not jumping to conclusions to seek further information. It’s the only responsible thing to do. Maybe it’s nothing, but really quite likely it is something to be concerned about.

Yes, maybe it was non alcoholic, although who drinks non alcoholic wine in a pub at lunchtime? But maybe it was, or maybe the glasses belonged to someone else, maybe they weren’t going back to work. All that is possible though to me not that likely.

You need to actually check and confirm this. No one ever knows how they will respond to alcohol on any given day, and slowed reaction times, misjudgments or distance, lowered inhibitions eg re safety….in their role these are highly dangerous to vulnerable children.

I would much rather speak to the manager than have a child injured, lost or killed because I didn’t want to look like I was jumping to conclusions. Please please speak to them OP.

@Kai125 even more scary are dimwitted posters who rush to conclusions based on little or no evidence.

I wouldn't laugh and tell a parent it was my day off. They don't own what I do in my spare time and it's none of their business.
Then again I wouldn't have time to go the pub at lunch time anyway

Mind your own business !!!

And of course they were working why do the mumnset "kind" people always put up with shit and think up ridiculous reasons?

What a stupid thing to say

I can't remember ever seeing it on offer - and I barely drink alcohol, so I read the AF lists in pubs a lot. Wetherspoons are the largest chain in the UK and don't.

It's not completely impossible that the pub was one of the ones which does stock AF wine and two minimum wage workers both happen to be in the small minority of people who like it and shelled out for it, but that's really not the way to bet.

The most likely option (by some way IMO) is that they were going off shift.
Second most likely was that they'd decided to say fuck it for some reason and sprint to the pub for a sandwich and a glass of wine in their lunch hour. Seems unlikely that you'd get away without being busted.
AF wine or a flat apple juice which happens to be exactly the same colour as wine a poor third most likely.
The OP not looking hard enough to distinguish lemon squash/lemonade from wine is another possibility - you would never do that if looking properly but for all we know she could have had sunglasses on or been pissed herself.

And of course they were working why do the mumnset "kind" people always put up with shit and think up ridiculous reasons?

If they were NOT working chances are they'd have wandered over to laugh and say that they weren't working today!!

Why would they need to go and explain to nosy parents that they weren't working? They were quite evidently not working it's not posters thinking up ridiculous reasons it's posters engaging their brains. The OP herself admitted she had essentially made up the whole thing based on no actual evidence.

Do you honestly think one member of staff would go and drink during their lunch break in the pub next to the nursery they work at let alone two.

Absolutely this!!

I'd be looking for another nursery pronto!

As a PP said if they have no problems drinking in public at lunchtime then god knows what happens behind closed doors.

And of course they were working why do the mumnset "kind" people always put up with shit and think up ridiculous reasons?

If they were NOT working chances are they'd have wandered over to laugh and say that they weren't working today!!

This happened to a friend of mine who saw a childminder she regularly saw at the playground. She didn't even know her but the childminder came over to say not to worry it was her birthday and she was off that day!

Very scary that some posters think it's ok to drink at lunchtime when being paid to look after kids!

Yeah it's crazy. 11 pages of people saying they should be reported and what evil people they are and people don't even know if they were working.

People love a drama on here.

Just because you wouldn't be tipsy doesn't mean someone else wouldn't. I've just had one glass of red wine and felt ill immediately. I'm not saying that's what's happened to these two workers , of course not. My point is drink affects everyone differently so to compare yourself is pointless.

@TheQueenWhoNeverWas"most pubs don't sell it", have you done a survey?

So because you've decided most pubs don't sell it, that's your decider that the nursery workers were drinking?

I drink non-alcoholic wine in pubs, I don't find it "vile" at all. This may come as a bit of a shock , what with you assuming everybody has the same tastes as you.

But they obviously weren't looking after young children.

Honestly the amount of people who've read the title and just assumed these two women were guilty of drinking before heading back to look after a room full of children is mind-blowing!

The OP freely admits she essentially made up a scenario based on nothing more than seeing two people having lunch together in a pub near the nursery they work in.

This.
COMPLETELY inappropriate when looking after multiple young children.
Report!!

Most pubs don't sell it. Beer, yes almost all pubs sell a few options nowadays and lots of people buy it. Wine, no.

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean there is zero chance that they were drinking it. Equally there could have been any number of non alcoholic options in a wine glass. Neither you nor the OP have any way of knowing what they were drinking.

@Itsjustmeheretoday makes you wonder why they sell it then...

Honestly non alcohol wine is foul, the chances of two people 'enjoying' this, let alone ordering it in a pub seems very unrealistic!

I don't think most pubs even stock non-alcoholic wine do they? Wetherspoons for example sells 8 AF beers including Guinness, 2 AF ciders and a couple of cocktails but no AF wine, not even Nozecco.

@CelesteCunningham has it occurred to you that other people's tastes are different to yours?

@CelesteCunningham how would anyone know how often people drink non alcoholic wine, unless we taste it?

Pubs sell non alcoholic beer and wine for a reason.

Are you suggesting they never sell it?

How often do you see people drinking non alcoholic wine in a pub? You don't, because it's vile. Beer or prosecco, sure, but not wine. They were drinking wine.

They may or may not have been on their second glass (irrelevant IMO - one is too much at work, any number is fine if not), they may or may not have been going back to work, but on the balance of probabilities, they were drinking wine.

If they weren’t drinking it’s a non issue , if they were drinking but not going back to work it’s a non issue - they can do what they want , they’re grown women - but if they were then I think the nursery should know this .

I wouldn’t think they would go to a pub near the nursery on their break and drink wine - surely they know that they could be seen . Unless , as its end of year for some they have time out of caring in the afternoon - paper work etc , so aren’t going to be looking after the children and they have been told to go have a relaxing lunch and a glass of wine .

The difference is that it's the parents risk to take. Surely that's obvious?

*They were drinking wine and there were empties on the table.

OP doesn't know if they were working afterwards, but they were drinking (unless they were paying for non alcoholic wine, which tastes nothing like actual wine).*

So again we don't know if they were drinking wine?