to think delivery drivers should take their shoes off?

[sleepycoffeemonster]

We had bedroom furniture delivered today, delivery drivers turned up at the door step with part of the furniture ready to bring in asking where to put it, directed that it would be going upstairs. Up they went, no stopping to take off shoes or cover. Once up stairs one realises he's walked mud up the stairs and in a nice pattern on our light carpet.

How do people who keep shows on indoors not mind this? The house must get so dirty with several people coming and going with shoes on!

We're a shoes off by the door house because if this. Its not even wet out and we have a path from drive to door so not sure how he managed to get so muddy!

[quote UpThePodge]@notsurenotsur, you put your carpet before your baby and delayed every other check she had to call on that day
I've read some shit on here but you and your husband win the prize

very, very slow hand clap to you both

No they should keep them. Are you hyacinth bouquet?

@Postdatedpandemic

She was the one who tried to push past my husband she made physical contact with him - he refused to move he did not make contact with her

She should have left when your DH tried to assault her

Blocking someone from entering your house is not assault 🙄 please don’t minimise actual assault

Shoes off and deliver to just the door

Shoes on and deliver upstairs

Would you move heavy furniture in socked feet?

@5keletor do you know what ALL the tradespeople to come here have been more than happy to wear shoes covers most have their own actually

@TuftyMarmoset

She should have left when your DH tried to assault her

Blocking someone from entering your house is not assault 🙄 please don’t minimise actual assault

Exactly

She made physical contact with him. He didn’t move. We had an unwell toddler crawling round the carpet and didn’t want her outside shoes all over it and offered shoe covers if she couldn’t take shoes off she was just rude! We had to shut the door on her to lay paper out as as we tried she was still pushing him and trying to step in

Shoe covers are fecking lethal, especially going up and down the stairs. I go to a call where we are required to wear them. Half of them are ripped so just flop off your feet and I've slipped luckily going up the stairs and not down them because they have no grip. I once went to another house and had to put shoe covers on, the lady I was looking after used to use the Avon body moisturiser spray. I sprayed it on her legs and some must've gone on the carpet. Turned round and slipped and went smack on my arse

@notsurenotsur might have made sense to mention the shoe covers in your first post!

[quote Offmyfence]@notsurenotsur might have made sense to mention the shoe covers in your first post! [/quote]
Yes I should have put all the details I was literally just typing a quick reply to the thread not realising it would need further clarifying !

They have to wear safety footwear at all times, including inside a customer's home.
Shoe covers are not advisable on stairs and or steps as they're generally plastic and puts the delivery person at risk of slipping.
A colleague slipped coming down the stairs of someone's house while wearing shoe covers provided by the householder and broke her shoulder. She successfully sued the householder, so providing them to people entering your home isn't advisable.
You have a choice of either letting them wear their recommended safety footwear, having the goods left downstairs or having the goods returned to the company.

I never think about any of this stuff. Perhaps there's something wrong with me!

Just wanted to say that Dr Beckmann carpet cleaner I find works WONDERS for things like this.

We are a shoes off family but I wouldn't expect a delivery driver to take them off. They have so many deliveries to make each day, every day and targets to meet. They can't faff around with shoes each time! Perhaps delivery drivers should consider shoe covers or something. I do get your annoyance. When I had a mattress delivered the driver dragged in mud up my stairs but equally smelly sweaty socks out of shoes scares me too! 😅

She made physical contact with him. He didn’t move. We had an unwell toddler crawling round the carpet and didn’t want her outside shoes all over it and offered shoe covers if she couldn’t take shoes off she was just rude! We had to shut the door on her to lay paper out as as we tried she was still pushing him and trying to step in

She was unreasonable in that she should have immediately refused to come in under those conditions and informed you that you needed to visit a clinic as an alternative.

Whether it’s a GP/midwife or whatever other HCP home visit, they can’t take their shoes off, it’s an EH&S thing so you were extremely unreasonable to ask. They also can’t wear shoe covers, as again slippery things so EH &S issue and you were unreasonable in asking.

She was unreasonable in not just telling you it was unacceptable up front and that you would need to make alternative arrangements out of your home. You were unreasonable thinking a HCP could visit you and the break rules they need to follow, and not going to visit them in a location that is not your house where your show issue will not impact their EHS requirements.

@Bigoldhag

You cannot out sheets down on stairs etc whilst people are lugging heavy goods, its a massive safety hazard. Get a box of shoe covers, keep in a cupboard if you get tradespeople coming in, crikey what a load of tosh.

This is what I was thinking too!

@KateF

I never think about any of this stuff. Perhaps there's something wrong with me!

Genuine question, would you think about it if you saw blobs of mud all over your bedroom floor or would you really not care? Im not someone who obsessively cleans or reacts to a bit of dirt but I wouldn't leave pieces of mud smooshed into the carpet!

Sorry to hurt your feelings but I honestly do not understand why anyone has light/white carpets in a house.

I've gone for white flooring throughout the ground floor, but that's vinyl and laminate -- wet-washable!

Carpets are dark red!

I honestly do not understand why anyone has light/white carpets in a house

Me neither

No I wouldnt expect them to take shoes off.

But I would expect them to wipe their feet.

@HoppingPavlova

She made physical contact with him. He didn’t move. We had an unwell toddler crawling round the carpet and didn’t want her outside shoes all over it and offered shoe covers if she couldn’t take shoes off she was just rude! We had to shut the door on her to lay paper out as as we tried she was still pushing him and trying to step in

She was unreasonable in that she should have immediately refused to come in under those conditions and informed you that you needed to visit a clinic as an alternative.

Whether it’s a GP/midwife or whatever other HCP home visit, they can’t take their shoes off, it’s an EH&S thing so you were extremely unreasonable to ask. They also can’t wear shoe covers, as again slippery things so EH &S issue and you were unreasonable in asking.

She was unreasonable in not just telling you it was unacceptable up front and that you would need to make alternative arrangements out of your home. You were unreasonable thinking a HCP could visit you and the break rules they need to follow, and not going to visit them in a location that is not your house where your show issue will not impact their EHS requirements.

We have had plenty of health professionals Here who happily removed their shoes no issues she was the only person to aggressively refuse 🤷‍♀️

We were not told of any other place we could be seen it was apparently home or nothing we weren’t offered an alternative and she said we could not refuse for her to see the baby that day

I'd think "Oh FGS, I'll have to get the hoover out!'. But I don't have carpets except on the stairs because I've had three children, their friends and a dog in and out for years and life is too short!

Nice drip feed @notsurenotsur 🙄

@HoppingPavlova

She made physical contact with him. He didn’t move. We had an unwell toddler crawling round the carpet and didn’t want her outside shoes all over it and offered shoe covers if she couldn’t take shoes off she was just rude! We had to shut the door on her to lay paper out as as we tried she was still pushing him and trying to step in

She was unreasonable in that she should have immediately refused to come in under those conditions and informed you that you needed to visit a clinic as an alternative.

Whether it’s a GP/midwife or whatever other HCP home visit, they can’t take their shoes off, it’s an EH&S thing so you were extremely unreasonable to ask. They also can’t wear shoe covers, as again slippery things so EH &S issue and you were unreasonable in asking.

She was unreasonable in not just telling you it was unacceptable up front and that you would need to make alternative arrangements out of your home. You were unreasonable thinking a HCP could visit you and the break rules they need to follow, and not going to visit them in a location that is not your house where your show issue will not impact their EHS requirements.

Some midwives are often encouraged to break the rules if they or another medical professional think the child is at risk (eg postnatal depression, baby born very close after the last one, ways the parents might have behaved previously). It isn’t always as clear cut as this. I’m guessing she was insisting to go in because the poster was concerning in some way.

Can't believe some people are so bloody precious, it's a floor, it's for walking on, and a bit of mud is easily cleaned up. If it's not, you need something more practical.