Are you allowed to drink in public in your uniform?

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

I'd be sacked before I'd finished my pint.

So why are that bunch of soldiers at the rugby allowed to?

And AIBU to be both a touch and about it?

How about "nobody deserves free tickets to anything" instead?

who do you work for?

I worked as retail manager and we were allowed to go for a drink after work in our uniforms if we wanted to. The only rules that applied was that if you were wearing the uniform you acted accordingly (ie. you still represent your firm out of work hours if you are wearing it)

The wonderful imploding NHS. Eating/drinking patient food is sackable. Even a teabag.

And yes, i know, one teabag adds up to billions what with all those lovely long tea breaks we get so regularly [bitter]

DH is a copper and back when he was still uniformed, he wasn't allowed to drink water or eat food where the public could see him. In fact on a 12hr shift during a heatwave, attending a public event, dh ended up bloody ill through dehydration.

Beer schmeer.

so say i got into fight outside of work whilst wearing my uniform I would get the sack
quite rightly!

niot that i would get into a fight. I am a 35 yr old mother of 3!

And there are many length policies regarding uniforms, professional behaviour, social media and alcohol.

oh okay, you are a nurse. I worked as a student nurse when i was at college it was a sort of pre project 2000 thing and we were not allowed to wear our uniform prior to getting there even then because there was some pervert hanging about But is the uniform thing also to do with infection control nowadays?

All this is detracting from the main issue.

WALES JUST THRASHED ENGLAND!!

Well, I'm self-employed, but I do wear a uniform (embroidered polo and workman's trousers with knee pads.) I would drink in uniform if I were able to stop at the pub and drink!

I thought clinical staff weren't meant to wear their uniform outside of work for infection control reasons?

Going for a drink before work in uniform = grim for patients
Going for a drink after work in uniform = grim for everyone else

Those soldiers have probably spent months wearing their uniform.

You can take yours off when you get home after a shift.

Those soldiers have been fighting a war, probably lost friends and colleagues.

I'm sure as a nurse you see death and tragedy but it's not personal and people you work with and care about.

Those soldiers don't see their families, kids for months at a time.

You probably get pissed off at being a couple of hours late off work.

If those soldiers can enjoy a few beers at the rugby before their next deployment then good on them!

Oh and well done

Pretty sure they were in uniform because they weretold to be,other wise I'm sure they would be in civi clothing, and bitter is about right OP.

someone beat me too it, you are not allowed to wear your uniform out of where you work for infection control. I can think of nothing worse than going out in my lovely polycotton trousers.

Not just infection control.

For example....

If I had a photo of me on facebook glass in hand, dancing on a table, having fun.....

And I also had a photo of me in uniform.....

And I am identifiable as me in both pictures........

Disciplinary offence.

Same as if I was shown on TV in uniform drinking alcohol and having fun.

but I am not supposed to wear my uniform outside of the hospital, so a photo of me in uniform woud be outside the hospital, we arent even really supposed to take it home to wash but the hospital laundry makes my skin sore.

Taggie, I do think you have to bear in mind that may be to do with protection for yourself though, look at what happened to that poor nurse in stockport (not that i know whether she had a photo of her in uniform on her facebook page though...)

What if a greatful patient took your photo and put it on FB.

Then your mate takes a photo of you clubbing.

Disciplinary offence.

(and yes. This exact scenario has happened recently)

Greatful?

Grateful?

I'm very tired.

god that's not fair !

I never even noticed great ful :) I am as tired as you :o

Don't the army and police generally wear their uniforms for formal occasions traditionally - I've never seen a bunch of nurses turn up at a funeral in their uniforms? It's a bit of a cultural thing imo.

Why would you want to go out in your uniform anyway, I bet it's seen some nasties in it's time. Not quite the same, but I used to work in a care home with 5 young adults - I took a change of clothes for that, I wouldn't of wanted to go out in those clothes given the substances that were (quite literally) bandied about during the course of a shift.

So in conclusion....

My employer is a bit shit.

Fin.

You too.