Martyn
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No 'silly' sox...
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WolfmanHarris
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Honestly seems blown out of proportion on both sides.
For the medics, just stop wearing the damned socks. Or wear higher boots.
For the service, find a softball way of handling this. Winning on the sock issue at the cost of general morale is not a winning solution. Heck in the long run it might be easier and cheaper (though hard to prove that one tangibly) to buy and issue black tube socks.
For example, my service requires a navy or black t-shirt as an undershirt. Somewhere along the line they started issuing service logo t-shirts to fill this role. I didn't like them. But I didn't start wearing whatever t-shirt suited me, I bought black undershirts. Were I to wear the wrong colour, the service could always point to the issued shirts and show me my options.
For the medics, just stop wearing the damned socks. Or wear higher boots.
For the service, find a softball way of handling this. Winning on the sock issue at the cost of general morale is not a winning solution. Heck in the long run it might be easier and cheaper (though hard to prove that one tangibly) to buy and issue black tube socks.
For example, my service requires a navy or black t-shirt as an undershirt. Somewhere along the line they started issuing service logo t-shirts to fill this role. I didn't like them. But I didn't start wearing whatever t-shirt suited me, I bought black undershirts. Were I to wear the wrong colour, the service could always point to the issued shirts and show me my options.
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All i can say is WOW! IMHO as long as they are not an issue for patient care. Who cares?! Any way, socks usually are hidden underneath pants, unless they are wearing shorts, either way. This is ridiculous.
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Martyn
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I used to wear Homer Simpson ones, kept the child PT's occupied and the adult PT's didn't mind.
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Homer Simpson, Nice. I'm thinking about getting superman or something along that line just to make a statement, Only problem is i wear an 8in. boot on duty. Oh well. some people just look for reasons to complain. This story is a perfect example.
As it appears to be approved by "the trust" which if I am not mistaken, has nonmedical providers on it, I think it is probably a matter of what the public wants the image of the ambos to be.
I noticed that the busier any service is, the less time (if any) they have for issues such as this.