Cleaning service -- remove shoes or not?

[Anonymous]

People need arch support and foot protection while they are doing manual labor (cleaning your house). You are crazy to suggest it is reasonable for them to do this barefoot, in flip flops, or in shoe covers. Clean your own house.

[Anonymous]

No way could I work as a cleaner all day without arch supports and comfort shoes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They clean so many toilets and bathrooms and bring it back and forth from room to room. It is disgusting.

So they would bring this back and forth on their bare feet? That is disgusting. They need to wear shoes.

[Anonymous]

We no longer have horses, cows and pigs on the streets that were common in the 1700s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way could I work as a cleaner all day without arch supports and comfort shoes.

+1. Being barefoot while doing manual labor for hours is a recipe for long-term health problems.

Our cleaning lady wears shoes but she mops and vacuums her way out of every room. The house is cleaner than when she arrives.

[Anonymous]

Our cleaning service changes from outdoor shoes to ones only worn indoors.

[Anonymous]

I have never heard of a cleaner that removes their shoes. That is wackadoodle.

[Anonymous]

I never thought to address the issue but mine has always taken her shoes off when she first enters the house. I don't really care if people wear their shoes or not but I keep a basket at the front door so that my husband and kids have a place to put shoes (more for wrangling purposes as they will just throw them anywhere otherwise). So maybe that made her think I was strict on no shoes.

[Anonymous]

I don’t wear shoes inside and neither do my house cleaners. They take their shoes off at the door. I may or may not have asked them to do this initially. Now they do it routinely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes I would expect them to take off shoes. My house isn’t disgusting though (no animals in the house and boys pee sitting down when at home).

If your house is disgusting then you need to let them wear shoes, no matter what you choose to do yourself.

What????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine keeps a pair of flip flops here. She wears them when she cleans. Nothing is going to drop on her feet.

How can you guarantee that nothing will drop on her feet? What if a glass breaks and glass gets in between her foot and her flip flop?

Some of you at like your cleaners are not worthy of being treated like fellow human beings. Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes I would expect them to take off shoes. My house isn’t disgusting though (no animals in the house and boys pee sitting down when at home).

If your house is disgusting then you need to let them wear shoes, no matter what you choose to do yourself.

What????

DP. And is it boys and men who have to pee sitting down, or just boys? And how do you make sure they are all sitting down when they pee?

[Anonymous]

From a safety standpoint cleaners need to wear rubber sole shoes so that they’re not slipping or risk getting their feet hurt with chemicals or stubbing them while cleaning. Not slippers, not covers but rubber sole shoes.

[Anonymous]

The women who clean our house leave their street shoes on the porch outside and wear other shoes inside. The main woman has been w/us for 10 years and just did it - wasn’t asked. The pair we had before her did too. I think it’s gotten pretty mainstream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes I would expect them to take off shoes. My house isn’t disgusting though (no animals in the house and boys pee sitting down when at home).

If your house is disgusting then you need to let them wear shoes, no matter what you choose to do yourself.

What????

This is DCUM. What did you expect?

The “boys” are likely too small too pee standing up. 🤏🏻