To ask what your reaction would be to seeing someone wearing scrubs at a petrol station?

[Doublefaced]

Negative? Or ‘Meh. Not batting an eyelid’ ?

As a customer, not a member of staff

Not appropriate at all.

If they seemed to be on the way home I'd think it quite unhygienic

I’d think they must be cold, but then I feel cold more than others... So I would be envious and think how low their heating bill must be.

Meh. I guess there could be any reason for it - perhaps civvies had gotten dirty somehow and spare scrubs were the only clean thing to change into?

That they worked in healthcare and were on their way home.

At the hospital I work in, people tend to wear a pair of scrubs to work, change into clean, provided scrubs. At end of day they change out of those scrubs (putting them into the cleaning bag) and then the scrubs they travelled in in go back on for journey home. Scrubs can be washed at higher temps than most of my clothes hence wearing them to and from work.

Not this again. Some staff work in the community, they are expected to be out and about wearing uniforms which presumably may include scrubs. Some staff change into clean scrubs to travel home in.

I’ve always found them thinner than pyjamas. In this weather!

This pisses me off tbh.

Loads wear scrubs such as vets and beauticians.

Always presumed to be a hcp though.

A bit WTF... they should not be in them outside of work! (DD1 and DD2 are doctor and nurse and they are most definitely now allowed outside in them)
However I guess they could be vet nurse, or pharmacy staff..not ideal but less concerning!

@stonebrambleboy

Not appropriate at all.

Can I ask why?

My sister regularly ended up in scrubs in A&E when someone puked on her nursing uniform.

Most likely it would trigger flashbacks and then I'd be preoccupied managing them.

I wouldn't think twice, but then I'm a nurse so I know that wearing scrubs doesn't automatically mean they've been delving in bodily fluids all day.

That they've probably been vomited, pissed or shat on or had any other number of bodily fluids on them and it was all they had to change into

I'd think they worked as a carer in people's homes and were travelling between calls.

Why? Are you the scrubs wearer?

I wouldn't think anything of it. Lots of people work in the community wearing uniform very similar to scrubs, and actual scrubs.

I very rarely register what other people are doing or wearing though, so it's unlikely I would have noticed/

I'd wonder if a patient with MH problems had thrown a full mug of coffee over them and if their coffee-soaked clothes were in a bag in the boot.
Happened to me.

It wouldn't even register as something to notice.

Zero reaction.

They are probably on their way home.

What would you think, OP?

Another thinly veiled NHS worker bashing thread. How novel.

Maybe all the NHS staff are getting a bit above themselves what with all that clapping and pot banging and need taken down a peg. Well done for stepping in, OP.

Or maybe they do community NHS work
for which they are required to wear scrubs and needed to buy some fucking fuel.

I really don't notice (or care) what other people wear tbh.

What about you OP? What are your thoughts?

If they were NaHS scrubs I’d buy them a bar of chocolate.