To think that if a workplace requires you to wear a poppy they should supply one?

[HaveIGoneMadHere]

Basically just that. My work group chat have had a text from our manager this morning to say that if we don’t have a poppy by the end of the day we could face disciplinary action. I don’t tend to carry cash with me and have no way of getting change as I’m now on my way to work. Would I be unreasonable to go back and ask them to supply one for me?

I have nothing against wearing the poppy, I just don’t tend to carry cash with me and don’t go to places where they’re sold that frequently. I’ve not seen a single poppy box yet this year.

Yanbu.
I always lose them within minutes, I don't have a button hole to pop it in. I prefer to donate to save waste.

Based on my personal, and friends', experience of some British soldiers in NI, their behaviour went well beyond "following orders" in terms of their treatment of nationalists and was appalling on a day to day basis. I doubt most of those are suffering any regret or mental torment in relation to that.

I don't buy one, and haven't done since a poppy seller berated me for not wearing one. I'd explained to him that I'd bought one a couple of days earlier and it was on my other coat, but apparently that wasn't good enough

That's when I realised that the whole thing is about obligation and virtue signalling, and I want nothing of it.

I'm also infuriated by all the posters who refuse to recognise OP 's financial situation. You should all be checking your privilege, frankly.