Cleaning Lady Shoes

[Anonymous]

Shoe covers sound like a fall risk. I would not clean stairs or mop floors in them.

[Anonymous]

Household employee here. I buy a pair of house shoes for no shoe households. A gift card to Amazon or a shoe store would be a nice way to suggest this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get disposable shoe covers and ask her to wear those over her shoes.

I'm a no shoe house, and I don't think this is reasonable. Cleaning a house is hard work, and the slipperiness of shoe covers could be a liability.

If you are worried about the cleanliness of your house cleaners' shoes, you can offer to buy ones specifically to wear at your home. I personally wouldn't cap the price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to have a full-time house staff. I provided uniforms, showers, etc. You don't, I don't have that anymore, and I demand nothing. I am grateful that someone cleans my house.

Please start a new thread and tell us about your riches to rags story!

[Anonymous]

Disposable shoe covers are very reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She needs a pair of shoes to wear in your house that are indoor only. That is what my workers do.

+1. My cleaning lady brings a pair of crocs to switch into.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I realized today that my cleaning lady wears her shoes in our house. We don't wear shoes in the house so I find that gross. She doesn't mop upstairs so it feels extra gross. Can I give her $60 to get shoes to wear inside of my house? I don't want her to wear socks only in case the floor is wet, yuck.

Why yuck?

Well she shouldn't wear socks only for safety reasons, obviously.

That’s not “yuck” though.

wet socks are definitely yucky feeling.

[Anonymous]

My life got so much easier once I stopped panicking about shoes in the house. We take them off by the door generally, but don't go crazy over it. Life is better now.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's fair to ask people who are working in your home to remove their shoes (plumbers, cleaners, etc.)--for one thing, there may be safety and comfort/health reasons. But you can provide them with those shoe covers, assuming you aren't asking them to do something where slipping and falling in shoe covers is an issue.

[Anonymous]

We have indoor shoes, Crocs actually.
I would ask her what she would like for indoor shoes at my house and either provide them or reimburse her and put them in the shoe rack same as ours.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I realized today that my cleaning lady wears her shoes in our house. We don't wear shoes in the house so I find that gross. She doesn't mop upstairs so it feels extra gross. Can I give her $60 to get shoes to wear inside of my house? I don't want her to wear socks only in case the floor is wet, yuck.

Why yuck?

The cleaner’s socks would get dirty and moist from mopping. That sounds really gross. Then she would walk around the carpet upstairs with wet socks. Also gross.

[Anonymous]

I have my staff change into a completely new outfit, head to toe, before they enter my estate. To do otherwise is completely insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor who had a no shoe in house policy. One of her guests fell and broke her arm and rotator cuff because floor was slippery. Guest sued and she no longer has a no shoe policy

This is why you should have umbrella insurance and friends who are not a-holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have indoor shoes and outdoor shoes and a rack in the entry. Hers can go there.

You keep the clean inside shoes off the rack that stores outdoor shoes right? Otherwise it defeats the purpose. We are a no shoe household and a lot of DCUM posters are not. I also clean my own house. If the cleaners can’t think to bring clean shoes to change into in your house, how good are they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get disposable shoe covers and ask her to wear those over her shoes.

This. She will think OP is crazy also.