A question for you.?
They do not work in construction or anything dangerous, their work place is completely safe.
They do however smell of alcohol (it's 6pm now and they do normally work nights but this was their day/night off)
Should they be alowed to work, or sent home and have a bad mark on their record?
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You see, this is where this country has gone wrong. Back in the 1970s, when I worked behind a bar in Oxford, loads of people had two or three pints at lunchtime.
If you go to France or Spain, people drink wine with their lunch, and when I worked in Germany, the manager used to bring us a bottle of schnapps 'to keep the cold out.'
Why have we let mothers-in-law take over the country? Unless these people were drunk, so what?
If it was in their contract that they could be called in, and they were plastered, well, that's breach of contract and they could be in trouble. I think the answer is never answer your'phone on your day off.
Let's abolish days off and work 18 hours for nothing!!
IF it was short staffed and not dangerous then it should be overlooked as they were only helping out. You cant blame people for having a drink on their night off can you.
They certainl shouldnt have a bad mark against their work record.
Depending on the policy of the company nvolved regarding drinking, and the needs of the business at the time should determine whether they get sent home or not.
They should not have gone in ,they should have told the boss they had beeen drinking and left the discition up to him/her.
What they should have said that they couldnt come in because they had had a drink.
Anywhere can be dangerous not just a construction site.
How weel are they going to perform their jobs if under the influence?
If I were their employer I'd be reluctant to let them work, depending on exactly what job they do but I would have thought no employer would feel happy about allowing them to work.
If they had an accident (falling down the stairs, tripping over, spilling scolding coffee on so,meone else etc etc etc) the HSE implications for the employer would be horrendous if it came out that he knew they were under the influence and still allowed them to work.
Smelling of drink really implies that they must have had a few.
So for me they should be sent home.
ANo need for a bad mark but it does show that their judgement was affected when they agreed to come in in the first place, then maybe they argued etc when asked to go home??
Maybe they have bad marks now , not because of the fact that they had had a drink but because of the way they reacted??
The employer was just doing the sensible thing.
Remeber that one of the first things that goes when you start to drink is your ability to make sound judgements..you dont have to be falling over drunk to be a liability.
man i used to work with peeps have their first beer at about 10.30 am, a couple over lunch, one or two around about the 3 o'clock mark and then round the pub after work!
If they were on call, then mark them up. If not, then they shouldn't be at fault. If they are sober enough to be there, then let them stay.
well if there day off then to be honist they should not have gone in.
they should have sead sorry weve had a couple off drinks as it is our night off, we are very sorry you are under staffed but we have been drinking.
Are they on standby? And if so, do they get payed for being on standby? If so, they should not be drinking. But there again, if the job is not safety critical, and they are not obviously drunk, and it doesn't affect their work. Let them be!
Well, the employer could send them home if he/she feels it would be inappropriate to have them in work, but why should they have a bad mark on their record for drinking when off duty?
Depends. Are they steady on their feet? Is it a large organisation? Do they have to work with customers? If the answer to all of these is 'Yes', send them home because that's how rumours start. In a large organisation, people will assume they have a drinking problem without knowing the full story. If it's a small company, everyone will already know they came in on their day off so as long as they are not tipsy and do not have to deal with customers, give them some water and a couple of extra strong mints and let them stay.
Why penalise them for drinking on their day off? If anything, they should be praised for turning up, at short notice because they are displaying flexibility/willingness to help out when required.
just as icarus said (nods to icarus above me) he worked with a fella who took a drink in work. i'm in a worse boat i'm on a building site this fella i have to work with gets tanked up the night before, gets up at half 5 am to knock a few tins into himself then comes into work half cut and sneaks a few tins as soon as he gets into work then off to the pub for about 3 pints at lunch then back again onto his secreted beer. him being the MD's pet monkey a blind eye was turned untill somebody namless (myself) shopped him to the HSE. if i have drink on me from the night before or a hangover i dont come into work. the proper thing to do is say no! i've done my required hours .
They should be praised for following the Government initiative and boozing all day like Europeans!
That's why 24 hour drinking was introduced:
To get the stodgy old English to sit outside boozing in the rain.
Anyone who objects should be fired as "Too British or too white"
Personally, I've been p*ss*d at work more times than I can remember! And I could still think more clearly than an MP in the Commons Bar!
Let's hear it for the "P*ss Artists"
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