The nightmare purple

My hospital just switched to purple scrubs. Aside from the hideousness of the color which looks godawful on everybody and makes my eyes hurt, it apparently had a purpose other than employee disgruntlement. Apparently, this is how we try to decrease infection rate: we'll force everyone to wear the purple scrubs but only inside the hospital. No one will be able to walk in from home (for some people literally from across the street) or go out to get lunch (we have no cafeteria) or run out for a soda while wearing purple--they force to you to change. Which would all be good and dandy IF we could actually change near the OR for example. Instead, we have to change in the bathroom and either lug our crap to the building furthest away where the lockers are, or stash it in the conference room and hope nobody swipes it. Stealing is usually a major issue. My fricken WATER BOTTLE got stolen the other day. I mean COME ON. I think it might've cost a whole $3, who'd want that?? In addition, there usually isn't all that much time between cases (assuming one is actually in the OR as opposed to doing scut on the floor) so it's not like people can get out of a case, run back to their locker, change, go get food outside, then come back, change again, go to the OR. As for the rest of us, the floor scut-monkeys, we can't even get the greens anymore, since the scrub machines only give out purple. We're stuck with what we had time to cheat the machines out of over the past few months.
And as for the theory about decreasing infection rate--are you KIDDING ME??? where did they come up with that? the hospital has more bugs and worse bugs than if i went rolling around new york sidewalk. And there are sterile GOWNS for the sterile field. I want to see the research that shows that forcing people to change clothes outside the hospital decreases infection, before they force us into something this ridiculously inconvenient and ugly to boot. And that's my two cents on the subject.