Nursery workers drinking at lunchtime.

OH THANK YOU, IF ONLY I’D KNOWN.

No-one knows if they were even drinking fgs, never mind over the limit!

I suspect it was alcohol-free wine.

However, the optics aren't good.

I'd report it personally so nursery can check if necessary. Not worth the risk of leaving it.

Every word - and don’t they just.

This.

I wasn't saying they were 100% drunk at work. I said it was not being a busybody to worry about whether or not they were. It's called READING.

This didn't happen.

They will get a 30 minute break for lunch.

They had either finished for the day or this is made up.

"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'm genuinely puzzled that you could feel so immediately sure it was wine that you 'weren't happy', wished you could report them because by now you're certain it definitely was wine, but feel anxious that if you had they'd take it out on your child, and come here to make a thread about it because now the question suddenly is "Am I being ott thinking they shouldn’t drink while caring for kids?" as if it's a done deal that's what they planned to do?

I mean, maybe it was wine, maybe even their second glass each, maybe they were about to head back to work semi-pissed, WE don't know. But the point is, short of stopping by their table and sniffing the glasses or asking the server or indeed the women themselves, you have absolutely no idea either, but by now the tale has grown and grown in your head.

I cannot fathom nursery workers having the time on their lunch break to go out and have a meal off site, let alone the piss up the OP is envisaging.

They weren’t necking a Stella in the nursery. No-one even knows if it was alcohol.

I don’t think people should be drinking while looking after kids. ( it’s painful enough while sober)

but if it was one standard glass of wine ( and we’re all guessing how much they had) I wouldn’t be frothing at the mouth like other posters here.

i can have a glass of wine with a meal and not notice a difference. And I rarely drink.

This.

I would not report them.

In a pub a short walk away from the nursery?middle of day?

Yeah they were on their break no doubt*

But you - and no one else including the op - don't know that. Nor do you know what they were drinking.

What do you think can be done about it?

OP to nursery - *I saw Jane and Janet having lunch today in the pub and there were 4 large glasses of wine (2 empty) on the table and I'm horrified.

NM to Jane & Janet - Mrs nosybody said this about you today

J&J to NM - she was mistaken.

And then what? Manager goes to pub and asks for cctv? 🤷🏼‍♀️

@AGodawfulsmallaffair

Dont be daft

Have none if these outraged people ever had a glass of wine at their unpaid lunchtime? Jesus.
Not forgetting an awful lot of them will drink a damn sight more when they’re looking after their own children.

Do you think that someone over the limit to drive should be at work minding other people's small children?

If they are in a pub at lunch then obviously they aren't working today.

No evidence that they don't have the afternoon off.

No evidence that they are driving after this.

No evidence that they are doing anything unprofessional.

Ridiculous

Who said they were driving?

An hour's lunch break? Blimey. When I worked at a nursery, we had no lunch break at all. It was written into our contracts that we would eat our lunch with the children - which, in reality, meant a few hasty mouthfuls in between cutting sandwiches into manageable pieces, opening various food packaging, peeling fruit, and taking little Johnnie to the loo and wiping his pooey bottom.

I know, how dare they.

Why fuming?

Honestly I've read through the whole thread meticulously and there is absolutely nothing to suggest this was anything more than two colleagues who happen to work at a nursery having lunch.

No wonder people don't want to work in childcare. According to some posters here they should never venture out the house when not at work.

It’s probably not illegal, but there are definitely rules covering professional conduct that have to be adhered to when looking after young children.

Being intoxicated in this instance doesn’t mean blind drunk but two pub measures of wine would likely take you over the drink/drive limit, so I’d class that as intoxicated.

If they were returning to work in the afternoon and the OP reported what she’d seen, they could risk a disciplinary hearing.

This thread is insane. Working in a minimum wage job does not entitle you to drink alcohol at lunchtime. I’m a teacher and this would be a sackable offence at any of the 4-5 schools I’ve worked at. Horrific to see so many people trying to justify day drinking in adults who are responsible for other people’s children. No wonder childcare is in such a terrible state in this country.

I agree it's not enough evidence as you don't know if they were returning to work, and if they were drinking on their lunch break hopefully them seeing you clocking them was enough of a shot across the bows to make them think twice.

I wouldn't report them with that evidence alone but agree it isn't on. (And wouldn't blame anyone who brought it to the nursery's attention especially since they could be in charge of very young babies and toddlers and you have to be on it since they are at risk of choking/smothering and things can happen quickly)

I work at a university teaching adults in an "art" subject and we are not allowed to drink on our lunch breaks.

Absolutely. But let's not pass up a chance to pass judgment on people who work demanding jobs for little more than minimum wage. They don't get to have a life /sarcasm.