Does your housekeeper wear his/her regular shoes when cleaning your house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Its not exploitative to ask your family to wear slippers in the house is it? If its good enough for your family then surely its good enough for an employee. Thankfully we live in an area where poeple do take shoes off and respect everyones property and wishes.

How you treat your family isn't anyone else's business, but you have an obligation to provide your employees and contractors with safe working conditions. Making them walk around without shoes takes advantage of their relative lack of power. Shoes help prevent foot injuries and falls, and they also offer some protection from electrical shock from faulty equipment.

Clean your own house, and if you need an electrician, wash your floors after him if it bothers you. Don't endanger other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I need more information about these slippers. Do they get to take them home afterwards? Are they cleaned in between uses? I don't want to put my feet into someone else's slippers. Do you just have an endless supply of slippers for every random plumber or cleaner who comes to your house? Where do you store all these slippers?

So many slipper questions!

I have those questions too.

Slippers are nasty. I can't imagine someone making me wear slippers. Are you opposed to bare feet? I just can't wear slippers that someone else sweated into.

[Anonymous]

Ours take their shoes off.

[Anonymous]

I clean windows in Phoenix and always remove my shoes before going into customer home because my shoes are usually wet or muddy.

[Anonymous]

My housekeepers is a team of 3 women all of whom remove their shoes and clean in low cut socks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I need more information about these slippers. Do they get to take them home afterwards? Are they cleaned in between uses? I don't want to put my feet into someone else's slippers. Do you just have an endless supply of slippers for every random plumber or cleaner who comes to your house? Where do you store all these slippers?

So many slipper questions!

I have those questions too.

Slippers are nasty. I can't imagine someone making me wear slippers. Are you opposed to bare feet? I just can't wear slippers that someone else sweated into.

This whole thread has me CRYING omg. And i don't know why but I keep picturing ppl putting plumbers and contractors in big fuzzy animal slippers and I am cracking myself UP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My housekeepers is a team of 3 women all of whom remove their shoes and clean in low cut socks

What's with the tall gym socks hate? Why do they have to be low cut? I can't wear my knee highs while scrubbing a toilet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We make her take a Clorox bath and then don a clean suit. I'm surprised you require anything less.

Lol

Cleaning in only socks is a safety hazard. Frankly, I find the booties to be extremely slippery and hazardous as well. They should wear their cleaning shoes or, if you’re a freak, ask them to wear house tennis shoes.

All of your worried about their shoes yet you’re OK with them cleaning your filthy toilets and sinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours wear their shoes. I'm fine with it, even though we don't.

+1 we ask guests to take off shoes. But view cleaner more like HVAC, plumber etc and shoes on is fine.

[Anonymous]

this thread is from 2015.

[Anonymous]

Mine is nude with just socks on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this thread is from 2015.

Really??

Pre-Covid?

I wouldn’t micromanage what my cleaner wears if she were trustworthy, reliable, punctual + thorough.

It’s just how I roll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My housekeepers is a team of 3 women all of whom remove their shoes and clean in low cut socks

Ours just hover from location to location throughout the house. But, you do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is from 2015.

Really??

Pre-Covid?

I wouldn’t micromanage what my cleaner wears if she were trustworthy, reliable, punctual + thorough.

It’s just how I roll.

Because COVID really didn't cause the health anxiety seen on this board. It just partially normalized the behavior as "safety."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's gross for anyone to wear outdoor shoes inside the home. Unless it's right before clean up time. I can't imagine a cleaner leaving their outdoor shoes on. It doesn't make sense! I always have extra clean slippers for visitors.

It’s dangerous to wear those slippery disposable booties over shoes when you’re walking up and down stairs carrying a vacuum cleaner and other supplies. Great priorities.