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I am picturing our 2 million dollar a year business partner showing up to tour the office and being met by salespeople in flip flops. Is it uptight? Sure. Whatever. It is what it is. Talk about a first world problem.
Or it could indicate it's a good place to work, and patterning with a company that is more interested in content productive employees than regimented and resentful employees.
Your view is very 1950ish, its 2012 now.
But this thread is about barefoot kids, perhaps you should start a thread about business dress in 2012
Ugh! Don't get me started on adults in a professional office...without shoes. I once saw a teacher in a school...teaching...in stockings.
Am I the only one who sees this as a problem? Okay.
I don't see a problem with it. I once worked at a broker/dealer clearinghouse. Everyone - from the file clerk to the receptionist to the traders - kicked off their shoes at their desk. Trust me, our bosses did not care. All they cared about was getting the job done right and making money.
Or it could indicate it's a good place to work, and patterning with a company that is more interested in content productive employees than regimented and resentful employees.
Your view is very 1950ish, its 2012 now.
But this thread is about barefoot kids, perhaps you should start a thread about business dress in 2012
Agreed. I challenge some posters to look at the most successful companies in advertising, design, e-commerce, etc. Look at their offices, the way they dress. Then look at their impact in their fields, the money they make, their standing within the business world. Trust me, no one gives a **** what those people are wearing on their feet.
On the other hand, look at banking, finance, real estate, insurance ... typically much more conservative. The T-shirt, cargo shorts, and flip-flop environment has its place, but when big money is involved people tend to dress up.
I spent a lot of my childhood in bare feet. I was barefoot a lot in high school. Yes, my parents could afford shoes, but I just took them off. I have been gainfully employed since I graduated, so I don't assume barefoot kids are poor or uneducated, nor do I believe they will be too backward to employ someday. At most, I think it's dirty sometimes. Not a big deal. I'd go barefoot more now but it gets the floors dirty. That's my main complaint.
I spent a lot of my childhood in bare feet. I was barefoot a lot in high school. Yes, my parents could afford shoes, but I just took them off. I have been gainfully employed since I graduated, so I don't assume barefoot kids are poor or uneducated, nor do I believe they will be too backward to employ someday. At most, I think it's dirty sometimes. Not a big deal. I'd go barefoot more now but it gets the floors dirty. That's my main complaint.
I would take dirty feet over flip flops for my DD any day. She has a tendency to trip when running in flip flops. Makes me nuts. But I am a bit weird. I LIKE seeing my kids dirty. It means they did stuff that day.
I agree, it's disgusting! I went barefoot in the house and in the back yard as a kid. It also grosses me out when I see kids not only barefoot, but crawling around on the floor of WalMart or a restaurant. UGH.
I would take dirty feet over flip flops for my DD any day. She has a tendency to trip when running in flip flops. Makes me nuts. But I am a bit weird. I LIKE seeing my kids dirty. It means they did stuff that day.
Those foam flip-flops like the cheap ones at Old Navy? I sometimes accidentally drag the front part and then jack up my foot. Hate that. (Oh, you mentioned tripping. YES. That happens to me too. No running in flip flops, and I'd rather they didn't ride bikes in them either.)
I like going barefoot, but I compromise by wearing little footie socks all the time. None of my kids particularly like to go barefoot though. It's funny. The oldest does sometimes, but the middle one hates bare feet (she has hypersensitive feet like my mom and can't stand anything touching her bare foot, so she always wears socks), and the youngest wears sandals like his dad.
Okay...what is with children not wearing shoes? Toddlers, older kids, even babies...all weekend, I have seen kids around, NO SHOES! At Wal-Mart, the park, walking around downtown. Not even a pair of flip flops...am I the only one who sees this as a problem?
Okay...babies..a pass...but at what age should they have shoes? My kids always wore shoes...am I just old fashioned? I guess...and if parents say, "They won't wear them", then fine...they should not leave the house...
I went barefoot my whole life except when I was in school. It is, after all, the way nature made us. As long as there isn't any broken glass or metal shards to contend with it shouldn't make any difference.
When my uncle was about 6 he was walking (or running) along a railroad track in Kansas and shoved a splinter of wood between his toes that came out the side of his foot. They just yanked it out and never even went to the doctor. That would have been back in the 1930s I think. Kids were tougher then.
I teach classes in my home on occasion, and I'm sure I'm barefoot, since we don't wear shoes in the house. I've also been barefoot teaching Sunday School classes. The school that my kids went to for a very short time allowed the kids and teachers to just wear socks if they wanted indoors. In fact, they encouraged it, because it meant they weren't tracking dirt in. Who cares?
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