AIBU to think care staff shouldn’t be drinking and taking work calls in Wetherspoons?

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I was in a Wetherspoons this afternoon and there was a table nearby who were all drinking alcohol.
Nothing you wouldn’t expect to see, until they started taking many phone calls, with their phones on loud, announcing the caller name every time. You didn’t need to be purposely trying to listen to hear.

It transpired they worked for a care company (I think at least a couple of them weren’t carers themselves but perhaps office staff) and they were taking work calls. I could hear the company they worked for as they announced it answering calls and then one relayed their number back to someone. I had a quick Google of the company name, number matched and a photo of one of the women at the table, was on their website.

AIBU to think they for one shouldn’t be drinking alcohol when at work nor two, having loud work telephone calls which could breach service user confidentiality, in such a public forum?

It's not even just that, care staff are regulated and have codes of practice they are breaching if they are discussing service users in a pub environment and can be overheard. Those standards exist for a reason. Whether you (not you, you generally) personally can identify the service user is irrelevant.

Their jobs are hard enough that they have to take work calls while on their break, I don't think they need your judgement on top of that.

I used to do home visits (not caring) with no car and regularly had to find a place to do my admin. And spoons hit the bill. If there was not one sometimes I ended up some rough and ready pubs and sometimes I had half a Guinness. On account of me being a grown woman.

Would you complain if men in high Vis and building site attire were in there? They could be going back to work later too?

I once overheard a receptionist discussing my grandma being in a morgue.

She shouted it across to her colleagues and everyone could hear. I was actually waiting to see the GP at the time due to stress (and grief!)

Even though it was jarring I still didn't report / mention it

YABU. Live and let live

They should be sacked. There's no excuse for Wetherspoons.....