People who remove their shoes in an office environment..

[RougeSeas]

AIBU or is this actually now an acceptable thing to do?

I've just gone back in to an office based role, there's a contact centre and i work the other end on a different team.

Many of the women come in, then spend the day walking about with no shoes on..

It seems very unprofessional and a bit grim

It doesn't rorty... I concentrate perfectly thank you.

We're lucky enough to have a canteen, but when i do go there... It's rank..

I bike to work. Sometimes I have a wor-shoe location fail and realise my work shoes are at my desk and not in my changing room locker. Sometimes this happens when it's raining and I don't want to put on soaking wet trainers over clean tights to go up in the loft so have to do the walk of shame to the loft and desk with no shoes. Hate it.

Oh god I always walk around the office without shoes. It never occurred to me that it would bother anyone.

I'm not going to do it any more!

High heeled shoes are agony aren't they? I think it's reasonable to take them off when you are at your desk and tiresome to have to put them on again every time you get up to walk across the office for something.

So I think YABU. Now if we could change our culture to one in which young women didn't feel the need to wear instruments of torture which inhibit their free movement in order to look sexually attractive, that's an AIBU I could get behind.

This is one of the maddest threads I can recall.

Shoes off -It doesn't bother me at all, especially at the end of the day; if someone is still at work, long after the normal leaving time if they happen to be padding around in stocking feet -so what?

Re the collection of shawls, fleeces, hot water bottles etc, almost every chair in my open plan office occupied by a female has something like that draped over it. I have my 2 emergency cardigans, a shawl and fingerless gloves. Our air conditioning and heating system is wildly erratic and the women cope with it by adding or subtracting layers - the men just moan. Also the heating goes off at 5, I will be there until at least 7, often 8 or 9.

The not using the work lavatory is actually the most bonkers thing I've seen on MN. Seriously bonkers.

Hedda if high heals are uncomfortable then don't wear them

Why would anyone wear something that is uncomfortable? It makes no sense to me...

So being 3 inches taller makes me professional or successful??

I'm 5ft fuck all, know my job and i am wearing shoes that i don't feel the need to remove because I'm expected to comform to some ridiculous meek ideology.

Why grim or disgusting? Because their socks are picking up the same filth that their shoes would otherwise be picking up? At least they can wash their socks and feet when they get home, whereas their shoes stay grim and disgusting. Have you not considered that you are the disgusting, rank one, for wearing your shoes indoors when you wouldn't consider doing so in your own home? You filthy mare.

Oh god I always walk around the office without shoes. It never occurred to me that it would bother anyone

Doesn't bother me.

Tangent there... Whoops

lass using the loo to poo... you missed a word there.

roundabout point taken...

I'm 5ft fuck all, know my job and i am wearing shoes that i don't feel the need to remove because I'm expected to comform to some ridiculous meek ideology.

Oh bore off you and Hedda with all the tosh about high heels. Some women like wearing them , others don't. I rarely wear anything other than ballet pumps and often pad around after 5 with no shoes. My assistant happily wears 4 inch heels all day.

My work advisor at the jobcentre was wearing fluffy slippers when I went to sign on last week! Couldn't quite take her seriously.

lass it's my thread. You bore off.

My point is, i wear heals.. Shoes which are comfortable for me to wear all day. Without the need to remove. Surely that is what people should do? Wear shoes that are comfortable enough to remain accustomed to their environment

caked that is totally unprofessional. They're advising people on getting jobs whilst wearing slippers.

The world has gone mad

Yes Rouge I did miss a word. I was going to say "use the lavatory to defecate" but thought "defecate" wasn't a great word. It is however preferable to the twee expression you have suggested.

Poo isn't twee
Poo-poo is twee

Do you use the word defecate then? That's pretentious...

Would shite be better?

Drop a log

Shit a brick

Drown the brown brick

I go barefoot in the office. I have very wide feet and my feet swell up, so I find going barefoot is more comfortable. I don't do it on says when I wear stinky shoes though. I just suffer then. I like the feeling of the cool carpet under my feet. The facilities manager used to moan that I might stand on something and hurt myself- if I injure myself it's my own lookout though.

Personally I like:

Opened your bowels

That does have a nice ring to it nerd

Fair enough taking off your shoes at your desk but having worked in offices for 30 years, I never would have thought it was acceptable to walk round the office in barefoot.

Also, doesn't everyone shit at work? Isn't that one of the few delights of work, being paid to have a crap?