I work in a daycare, and they recently made us stop wearing open toed shoes. So my flip flops are banned. The kids get to wear flip flops and go around barefoot, but I have to wear stupid shoes 40 hours a week now. My feet are suffocating.
Its okay, I got some. I don't see any reasoning behind it. I don't work around food, and I don't do any kind of customer service stuff. I don't serve the public, it's a private state run business. There aren't any state laws about it as far as I know. They make me cover up my tattoo as well. I'm going to wear flip flops tomorrow and see if anybody says anything. I don't mean to be whiny, but its not just that I like to be barefoot. I don't own and don't want to spend money on any shoes. I only have two pairs of shoes, and the one pair of closed toed shoes I own are making blisters on my feet.
Yeah, I know what you mean--it's like the health department's sole intention is to make everybody's life a pain in the butt! LOL I hear what you're saying about the shoes too, man--why should the kids get to go around barefoot and wear flipflops while your feet suffer? It doesn't make any sense to me either! Personally, I'd rather wear sandals than any other kind of shoe--I find them to be more comfortable than shoes that cover my feet!
OK, when did the bureaucracy start making sense? Some rules are good. Many overstep reason and logic. Wait...they are a bureaucracy and don't need reason or logic.
hehe...sole... Yeah, I'm wearing flip flops today to see how it goes...maybe nobody will say anything. And if they do I'll just show them the spots where my feet are hurt.
i've been in lots of daycares over my life...the shit they spray everything with to sanitize for the kids?...along with the cold and flu viruses floating around...not to mention chicken pox and measles...as well as kiddie vomit and snot and urine...i would wear a fuckin hazmat suit if i worked there...its disgusting that you would expose your feet to that mess
Knot - look at the photos in my profile. I have a pair of soft soled moccasins I occaisionally wear. If you absolutely have to wear a "shoe" at work these are the closest to barefoot you can get and still be "legal." I made them myself from a kit you can buy at a Hobby Lobby, Michaels or a Tandy leather store. They come with a padded sole but if you throw them in the washer pre-assembly it gets the pad wet and you can easily peel it out. Good luck.
The topic title is 'stupid health codes' but you also say they make you cover up your tattoo. I think they're just trying to put up a dress code and make a 'better' public image.
Why does that shut them up? So *one* person had a small accident *one* time. That doesn't mean sandals are super-dangerous! People are so silly! I fell with my bicycle once because a shoestring had become untied and got caught in the pedals, but no one ever suggested I shouldn't wear sneakers or shoes with laces, or anything even remotely like that. I've slipped because I wore dressy shoes with slick soles and the floor was wet. I've also had blisters from shoes, some of which hurt pretty bad. These things happen, it's no big deal. Get up, use a band-aid, maybe limp a few days and then it's over for the next five or ten years or so.
I can kind of understand covering the tattoo for public image. I can live with that. But they haven't said anything so far about the flip flops. And state was by today, and they didn't say anything... Moccasins are a great idea. As far as exposing my feet to germs...my feet are exposed in a lot worse places than daycare. I'm not really worried about my feet catching the flu.
not even close with your comparison..exactly the kind of ridiculous reply that makes shoe people shake their heads at you barefooters...why the fuck would someone say it was the wearing of a shoe that made you wipe out your tricycle..it was the undone shoelace...a responsible parent would suggest keeping your laces done up properly....bottom line is at the business owners feet...whatever the fuck he is paying you to do,you do it...or quit and go else where
I guess people should also wear heavy gloves because one day this woman in my office wasn't wearing protective gloves and accidentally slammed her fingers in a file cabinet. I agree.
My first point was that simply wearing shoes doesn't automatically prevent or even minimize all injuries. And my second point was that the injuries from going barefoot are likely to be very, very minor -you can't compare that with a band saw and cutting off a hand! If shoes are a true protection, then I agree; I wouldn't suggest going barefoot in a construction zone or chemical lab, safety shoes make sense there. But the example you named was an office environment, wasn't it? In every office environment where I have been, high heels are a commonly accepted type of footwear; not very safe, it's quite easy to twist an ankle! To ban only bare feet and allow someone to wobble on 4" heels is just silly. Also the discomfort from constantly wearing closed shoes in summer is, in my opinion, not in proportion to the risk of a *small* injury in a typical office. Open-toed footwear is also commonly allowed in my country, btw. While we are strict on prevention of MAJOR accidents (safety shoes in construction, helmets, seat belts, etc are required, and I do agree with that), we are far more relaxed on small stuff (stubbing a toe, getting a splinter, stepping on a staple -MINOR injuries!). I guess people in the US have to be more careful of small stuff also because it is a far more litigious society, and people are more likely to sue or make great claims in workman's comp. The lady in your example lost a nail, not a toe, didn't she? Did she get time off work for that and/or make a claim? If so, you may have a point, but I can't imagine that happening here! About your last line, well if you addressed me personally, I did that. I work in a place where I can go barefoot and I wouldn't take a job where bare feet are against the rules unless I absolutely had no other choice. But generally speaking, I don't think it is wrong to protest against a rule, especially not one that wasn't in place when you applied for the job. Bosses do have the final word but there are many ways for employees to discuss and influence decisions about the work environment. To say no discussion should be allowed about work rules is extremely strict and archaic.
A responsible parent, tricycle? Please read more carefully, I said *bicycle*, and I wasn't a child when that happened -I live in the Netherlands, where people of all ages commonly ride bicycles. And the shoe lace, of course, is part of the shoe. No shoe, no shoe lace that can come undone. So yes, that fall was caused by wearing a shoe. It's just one of those things that can happen if you ride bicycles every day in your life and also wear laced shoes/sneakers -we don't ride bicycles for sport only, but also for transportation, including when we get out of the house in a hurry in the morning. It was just one of several examples (I notice you ignored the others ) of how a shoe -or part of the shoe- *can* cause a *minor* mishap. About following the rules, see my reply to nateman above.
