Being an employee on personal time

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Have you ever worked at a job that has it written into your employment contract or job description that you are professional at all times, at work or not? My contract has this written in: "We require employees to maintain a constant professional and courteous image to our customers and to uphold company standards and image on personal time." Both my current job and my last job had a similar clause in my job acceptance letter and/or job description, and it drives me nuts. It feels like such an infringement of my rights. I can understand remaining law-abiding since I do that all the time anyway, but it sort of entails that if they ever found that picture of me dancing on the picnic table in my backyard during a drunken party last year with my friend's bra on my head, I could get canned for failing to fulfill my duties? Yes, that picture really does exist. :) I just really don't like the fact that your workplace (not even a career now, just a job!) can place restrictions on what you do in your own time.