So... who's done the school run in pyjamas?

mumps

Person_one wrote: »

Well I hope you're right. Most people aren't at 20+ hours without sleep.

I think that's what the junior doctors are saying, the government doesn't seem to agree.

snowleopard61

mumps wrote: »

I think that's what the junior doctors are saying, the government doesn't seem to agree.

Just to clarify (as it was my post which gave rise to the points at issue) - I certainly wasn't commending this as a working pattern or a work/life balance. I think it's awful if anyone has to do it, whether out of financial necessity or the expectations of the job. My point was just that the man I mentioned, sleep-deprived and rushed as he is, manages to be clean and neat and properly dressed.

Person_one

haras_nosirrah wrote: »

I saw a lady walking in front of me the other day wearing a nightie and a duffle coat over the top with boots on. She must have been in her 50's, unwashed grey hair etc.

Sadly not only could she not be bothered to get dressed she couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet either. She paused, shook her leg, dropped a turd on the pavement and carried on walking

Yes bit of a step down from the lazy parent on the school run and I am hoping she was mentally unwell to do that but all the same if people can be too lazy to get dressed in the morning and it is now socially acceptable then society needs to pick up its standards again.

Please tell me you called 101?

snowleopard61

lisa110rry wrote: »

I know the thread talks only about the school run (and I've admitted wearing a type of pyjama on the dog run), but the original news story, I believe, referred to parents attending activities in the school wearing pyjamas. I would take this to mean activities during the day and perhaps in the evening. Any of you done that? I certainly haven't.

Good grief!:eek:

Person_one

snowleopard61 wrote: »

Just to clarify (as it was my post which gave rise to the points at issue) - I certainly wasn't commending this as a working pattern or a work/life balance. I think it's awful if anyone has to do it, whether out of financial necessity or the expectations of the job. My point was just that the man I mentioned, sleep-deprived and rushed as he is, manages to be clean and neat and properly dressed.

...and my point was that it's irrelevant how clean and smart you are if you're putting vulnerable people at risk. If he forgets or bungles some vital task due to sleep deprivation and an elderly or disabled person is harmed, do you think they of they families will care what he was wearing?

Priorities.

snowleopard61

Person_one wrote: »

...and my point was that it's irrelevant how clean and smart you are if you're putting vulnerable people at risk. If he forgets or bungles some vital task due to sleep deprivation and an elderly or disabled person is harmed, do you think they of they families will care what he was wearing?

Priorities.

I think you are wilfully misunderstanding. There's no point my saying any more about this particular point.

Andypandyboy

I don't think the poster was condoning this chap working so many hours just saying that even whilst doing that he still found the time to dress!

I don't understand your comment re priorities in the context of the post. Going to his next job in pj's wouldn't make him any the less sleep deprived. He maybe has his work life balance wrong, but that is a stand alone issue and one not affected by his mode of dress.

I doubt those he cares for care either way how he dresses, being well dressed and clean and appropriately dressed for the occasion is a matter of self respect not something done for the benefit of others.

gayleygoo

fierystormcloud wrote: »

Is this some kind of joke? How on earth do you think women with children and babies cope when they have to go straight to work?! They have no choice but to get the children ready, and get themselves ready before leaving the house. Good grief!

And I have to say, your post has done the 'stay at home mother' image NO favours whatsoever! Walking around to each others homes in your pyjamas and dressing gown, clutching a bottle of cider. And you have - as you state in your post - a young baby who cries through the night... OH. MY.. GAWD.... Have you actually read this post back?! You have a young baby in your care, and you are necking cider and wine in your pyjamas round your sister's house next door.

Words fail me.

And I don't think anyone has to be a SNOB to think that is something to look down on. That's appalling behaviour! If I knew you, the chances are social services would be alerted.

My first sentence was a joke, hence the winky smilie face. Of course I know that the vast majority of parents get dressed and take their kids to school, and I count myself as one of them.

The wine and slippers thing might sound bad, but it's out of context. This is something that happens on an occasional weekend evening once the kids were in bed and the hubbies are left in charge. Nor do we get drunk, it's a glass of wine/cider and a girly natter! :rotfl: If I hadn't mentioned jammies you probably wouldn't think it strange, but if it's after 9pm and there's no school run in the morning, there's nothing wrong with wine and jammies. Also, I've done it once in the past 18 months due to pregnancy, breastfeeding etc. I don't normally feel the need to justify such things but your post got me worried that you'd got the wrong idea.

I agree with other posters that wearing pyjamas is demotivating for housework and other stuff that needs done. I couldn't work on my customers' orders in pyjamas either, I do get dressed to work.

My friend works in a call-centre and they recently had a pyjama day for charity. Someone should have measured the productivity of the staff that day

Izadora

gayleygoo wrote: »

I agree with other posters that wearing pyjamas is demotivating for housework

Whereas I'll put pyjamas on to do housework as I find them less restrictive than jeans and, as I'm never going to wear them out of the house, it doesn't matter if they get stained/bleached.

lazer

My mum used to throw a long coat and a pair of boots on over her pj's and take my Dad to work for 6am and then come home and go back to bed for a an hours before getting up and making breakfast etc, and taking us to the school bus for 7.40am (I think maybe in PJ's sometimes!)


Now we lived in a house with no heating except open fires, so clothes tended to be cold and damp in the morning in the winter. so she warmed our school clothes on a chair beside a superser, and then lit the fire when she got home from the school run, and warmed her own clothes before getting dressed.


(PS - this was only about 10 years ago)