Nursery workers drinking at lunchtime.

Why will they lose their job...they were NOT bloody working.

Honestly how anyone thinks that one staff member would go and have a drink mid shift let alone two in the pub right next to the bloody nursery is just mind boggling.

They won't treat your child any differently as they will no doubt lose there job!!! I work in a nursery and you are not aloud to drink even on your unpaid lunch hour that's absolutely crazy that people think it's fine to go look after someone else's child after having a drink.

What a mean spirited thread. The OP has no evidence that the nursery workers were rostered to work that day, no evidence apart from empty 'wine' glasses to suggest they were drinking alcohol, just a pathetic childish need to report them for supposed wrongdoing.

Please, before you go in and make a complete twat of yourself by telling the nursery manager about her drunken workers, make sure you know the facts. Otherwise you will carry the label of shit stirring fool of a mum, someone to be avoided, for the rest of your days, if you stay living in that area.

No i didn't. Being employed to look after others children means you are responsible for their safety, and your contract would no doubt state that you couldn't be under the influence of alcohol.

Well quite..

I take it all of those who replied never ever drink alcohol when I'm charge of your own children.

Are you sure it wasn't alcohol free? Most pubs serve a selection of AF wines & beers

I often have a glass of AF wine or peroni when out for lunch & prefer it to water or soft drinks.

As a retired Nursery Nurse this would no way be tolerated! WTF are they thinking? I would not be happy at all!

Plus very few people have an hour lunch break most have half hour. They most likely did a 6 - 2 ish shift and went out after

No one has time to get pissed in a one hour lunch.

A nursery where staff can take a one-hour break for lunch is unusual to say the least. Most nurseries barely have enough staff to fulfill the required staff-child ratios as it is. It's not as if the children go home for lunch and the nurseries can close for an hour or so at lunch time and give their staff a one-hour lunch break.

Nursery workers who can afford a regular pub lunch including a glass or two of wine during the working day are probably even more unusual. If the OP's story is true, it is more likely that they were finished for the day.

I wouldn't say they were clearly not on shift. The pub is next to their workplace, and while they weren't in uniform, their uniform is a tabbard that's easily removed. I'm guessing OP knows how they tend to dress at work - dark polo and leggings at our nursery - if they were dressed in non-work clothes she would have assumed they were off.

It's very likely they were on a half day, but I don't think OP would be out of line to make a friendly call to the manager to check given the seriousness if they went back to work. I know our manager would be happy to reassure me and have a laugh about my DC driving them to drink, and would take it very seriously if they were in fact drinking on their break.

Why?

They clearly were not on shift. Obviously there will be a policy if no alcohol consumption during shift but why does the OP need to clarify that when they were not on shift...

You have missed that I am suggesting the OP finds out if there is a policy.

I have a day off midweek and have met up with colleagues also having a day off for lunch. Even with staffing issues people still need their days off, nursery staff quite often do early or late shifts too if they are open 7-6, for example.

However it wouldn't be allowed to have alcohol in the middle of a working day and we certainly wouldn't have time to have a couple glasses wine and eat out in our half hour break!

I'm guessing you've spotted them off shift.

I think we’ve established it varys same with most workplaces. I work in a nursery and it’s an hour 🤷🏼‍♀️ it depends on the setting, obviously.

Ha, where I work, it's officially a 20 mins break within a 9 hour work day, aka the absolute legal minimum
I'm not based in the shop, and we tend to take a little longer.

*"they each had a glass of wine."

What made you think it was wine in the first place? Was it because it was in a 'wine'-type glass? You don't need me to tell you that was a pretty big assumption to make.*

I've been to a pub and they served Appletize in a wine glass, it does look like white wine..

They definitely should not be drinking at all if they were going back to work. Maybe they weren’t, fair enough if so. I would ask the manager if they were working that afternoon and if so I would report it and insist it is properly logged as an incident and investigated.

Drinking on duty absolutely not allowed, But- do you know they were on duty, and do you know it wasn't non- alcoholic wine, or even a soft drink in a wine glass, absolutely discuss it with nursery manager but proceed with caution

I work in a Nursery and it's a 30 minute break.....

How long a lunch break do you think they get? Laughable that you think it's long enough to go to the pub and order anything never mind sit down for a meal....

Lol I was thinking this earlier. My mum bought me a bottle when I was first pregnant and I remember trying to force down a glass so as not to hurt her feelings.

I work in a nursery and live a 5 min walk from work! So the pub close to the nursery is my local!!
a lot of the staff Iive local - I’d imagine a lot of nursery staff live local as there’s jobs available in basically every nursery so why would you work far away if you can get a job locally

and you literally don’t know if they had the day off

my contract for example is Monday - Thursday so I’ve Friday off and never work that day even tho we are short staffed

You've missed the point entirely. The OP has no evidence that anyone has broken a policy.