I go to school full time and work pretty near full time and this makes for a tiresome day when I go to school for four consecutive hours and then work for another eight. I was aware that taking on a job with this many hours a week would require a lot of dedication and also efficient time management but I was ready for the challenge, unfortunately my feet weren’t.
I work at the front desk of a hotel in which, as you know, you are required to stand for eight hours and are only given the chance to sit during your breaks. My bad, my feet tend to get sore during the shift, I’m sorry. I didn’t see a problem in slipping off my ballerina flats behind the desk, where no one could see if I was wearing shoes or not, and letting my feet relax for a moment and breathe (FYI my feet don’t stink). My supervisor then informs me that she/he can tell I’m not wearing shoes because of the sounds my socks make as I move across the floor. WTF? Are you joking right now? What guest, or anyone for that matter, would be that psychotic to “listen” to hear if I’m wearing shoes or not? Apparently my prick of a supervisor. Then he proceeds to tell me that shoes are a part of our uniform, which yes, I understand but it’s not like I’m going to trot around the fucking lobby without shoes like a complete dumbass. I take my shoes off for small increments of time when my feet are so fucking sore it’s unbearable. So, to my drill sergeant supervisor, dig the fucking bean out of your ass and relax. I don’t think any guest gives two fucks whether my shoes are on or off nor do I believe they are “listening” to what sounds my feet make as I move across the floor. As long as I am delivering optimal customer service and doing my job properly, you should stop taking your job so fucking seriously and go get laid. Tightass. —Shoeless Guest Services Agent
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2011.
That’s not fair to drill sergeants. They know the importance of foot care. They will tell their troops to take of their boots and change their socks.
You obviously need comfier shoes, OP. I’m guessing your shoes don’t have much support.
Try a gel insole or try looking for some comfier shoes to wear. I’d have to be on my feet constantly for 8 hours when I was a cashier, and my feet would be a little bit achey at the end of my shift but not hurt so badly that it was unbearable — because I wore a good shoe with proper support.
And I hate to say it, but you CAN tell when someone’s not wearing shoes because socks DO make a certain sound on the floor. Not saying your boss isn’t a dick, but he does have ya on that one.
Just get some better shoes. Most ballerina flats don’t provide much support. I have a pair of flats on now that I had on friday and i went to the mall after work. I sit at a desk all day and 4 hours of being on my feet between leaving work and getting to the mall and walking around was enough to give me two blisters in between my little toes.
its actually an occupational health and safety violation to not wear appropriate footwear in the workplace and they would be held liable/fined if you stepped on a tack or slipped and hurt yourself etc. and they had knowingly let you violate.
don’t be a violator, 😉
don’t blame your boss for being responsible
get some sneakers and quit crying
Uh, wear shoes and quite crying about your feet. The Walmart bargain will not provide the support necessary. You realize people buy bargain outlet shoes and these are mostly fashion over function. Hell, most people get their vehicles tuned and serviced more than they get their body tuned and serviced. Sad but true.
For those who work at occupations where being on ones feet is part of the job owe it to their health to get properly fitted for a pair of shoes! ~ Geezuz!
assholio..
He has a point, I had jobs where i had to stand on my feet for 12 hours and my feet would hurt like hell in the end of it (these were in boots too) I found them nice orthotics for my feet and never complained again.
Plus no matter if you saw it a problem or not taking your shoes off to me is unprofessional.
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this outta piss him off enough…. enjoy
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I do enjoy the shoe feet, except the weird shoes that are like socks.
Go to an orthopedist and get custom orthotics and a note from him/her saying you need to wear certain shoes with proper support, and then your boss can stuff it and your feet (and back later in life) will love you. I had to get such things a few years ago and they make it much easier to walk distances and stand for a long time!
Chin up OP, a class action suit has already been filed by these 4:
http://www.topsocialite.com/wp-content/upl…
Get better shoes, it’s a health and safety hazard to not have shoes on at work and your boss has no choice but to call you on it. Or just do it when the chances of you getting caught are low.
I like some of the more fashionable Crocs for standing all day (I work on a hard concrete hangar floor all day every day, frequently in steel toes, so I can’t do Crocs if I’m moving material but if it’s a front-of-house kind of day at our front desk, then I like some of these): http://www.crocs.ca/womens-footwear-flats/…
dress rules apply for all jobs, you expect to work in a hotel, with no shoes on, you’re daft. same as saying that be cuase i work at home, i have to wear a tux. uh uh, ain’t gonna happen kiddo.
there are some people that wear shoes when they work, and there are some that don’t. the ones that don’t, usualy find themselves, looking for a new job sooner than those that wear shoes. just sayin’.
I used to work that job and it sucks. It’s good hours for students though. Request a gel mat behind the desk that you can stand on and get some insoles.. Guest service managers tend to be nit picky jerks as well.
lol @ Bro’s comment
OP , I guess everyone missed the part of where it sounds like you’re a poor student.
Orthotics are a lot pricier than this idea & this works .
Go buy one of those cheap foam rubber mats. You often see them like big interlocking pieces & they’re in bright colors in packs of 4….but they are available in grey & black.
My lover works as a cook & at each ‘station’ they have one, because the cooks are always on their feet as well & like your job they are often in the same place for extended periods of time.
Good luck
Ever try driving a bus in sock feet? I don’t recommend it. That said OP, I’ll bet the higher class hotel clients probably would notice the sound or smell of sock feet. If the employer won’t provide a task mat, then get one yourself, and/or insoles.
If your feet are that sore get better shoes and/or insoles. Its really quite a simple concept.
As for your supervisor: he/she has a job to do. Deal with it.
Work places have uniform requirements for a reason, and I don’t know any employer that says “footwear optional”. Put your shoes on and suck it up.
Some of the rules for shoes are for OSH/OHS safety. Dress code is one thing but OHS/OSH (whatever it is) is something else.
That’s the way to do it. Intelligent comments that actually make sense and help people instead of hurting them! You have it in you!
Go rape a shit-eating cousin, gazelle-licker.
Oh well, I thought for a moment that you might have seen the light.
It’s on then. If you own The Coast, I cannot get you banned here. But I can publicly expose The Coast as owned by a psycho pervert.
Frank Magazine. Yes. There’s a good place to start once I have the groundwork done.
I will not descend to your level, as you can have your comments removed but I cannot delete mine. A perfect setup. No, no free pass for you.
Extreme sarcasm: Doesn’t this make for nice pleasant enjoyable reading everybody? Oh yes, this man is worthy of your respect and adulation.
Every single bitch will get hijacked by this issue. Won’t that be so much fun and provide such variety?
Life Sucks owns Frank.
And you really need to get laid. Or just drunk and stoned. You remind me of the character ‘Elias’ from Clerks 2, especially when he’s jerking off and crying watching The Sexy Stud fuck Kinky Kelly.
That makes sense. Life Sucks is not a perverted psycho like you. Just grumpy. And they agree with my assessment of you.
It doesn’t have to be Frank, if it’s good enough I can take it to the CBC too. (Shit, I’m starting to realise I may already know who you all are and there is more than one reason for payback… think hard)
You need to stop being a cruel pervert. (the amount of sex i get has no relation to this, and you have no idea)
Clerks 2 sucked. Clerks rocked.
So, go call a psychiatrist now, OK? Really, you’re going to end up physically hurting someone eventually. Probably a gay or lesbian person. There have been enough gay-bashing killings in Halifax already. We don’t need another one, and if I can help prevent it, I will.
You don’t get sex, you fucking butt-sniffer! LMAO!!!!! You haven’t even seen a set of tits except for maybe the stuff drawn on bathroom walls or underneath overpasses with spray paint. And I meant sex with an actual person; not some video game stuff 😉
CBC won’t listen to you. They’ll just call you a wing-nut and tell you to stop putting up the “9/11 was an inside job” stickers around the city. And they’ll do a story about you being a cyber bully targeting poor ol’ NGF and his millions of Bulkamaniacs.
Clerks 2 didn’t suck. You’re just mad that Elias is modeled after you. Do you have a pussy troll too?
And you don’t know anything about Life Sucks. He gets some pussy in his face and goes to work on it like Zoidberg eating Chinese food. Zoidberg makes less slurping sounds though. I can’t even make those sounds brushing my teeth.
P.S. whatever you’re smoking, it is not marijuana. Prevaporised and respiked with mannitol solution for a simulacra and moisture content – is the standard approach in the Maritimes. Confiscate, sell, vaporise, spike, sell… that is the cycle, if they could sell it three times they would.
There is no way that someone as hateful as you smokes dope. No way. You might think you’re smoking dope, but it is not real dope. At least not in the Maritimes. Trick is most tokers in the maritimes drink enough to be easily fooled.
I miss the Angels. Real law, violence with purpose. No perversion. They would know how to handle you.
OK your last post is such nonsense. Are you trying to say something? Maybe you better just stick to perverted insults.
That last post is quite diagnostic really. You are pretty fucked up. Get help.
Angels are no match for we Jews. We took out Jesus and JFK and we can do it to some bikers too.
ps: nobody uses the term ‘marijuana’ anymore, narc. Get with the times. You say this is ‘indo’; smell like ‘outdo’.
You still make no sense.
First you’re black, then you’re Puerto Rican, now you’re Jewish?
Again, quite diagnostic.
Narc? No, no, no… you get with the times. It is called the “Controlled Substances Act” now because marijuana is not a narcotic but alcohol is. Get it?
So, have you called a psychiatrist yet? You’ll feel better once you get help. Really, you will.
Or maybe you just need a real toke. Take a trip to Ontario or BC, score a shitload and drive home. You might be suffering from long term marijuana withdrawl (non-physical, strictly mental and emotional). Some real dope will fix that.
n.g.f., you weren’t sposed to tell anyone about thr frank deal. guess you really don’t want co-ownership then. and yes, the pussy and sounds, loverly that it is. jsbus there stalker troll, give it up will you, we run the coast too, and you are way out of line. have to talk to birdlady later, and get you ousted, like a good little troll that you are.
and you say we know you, yeah, we do, just a nutcase looking for a place to hide, with your tin foil hat on. and bro tim, is not quite far from you. but that is a little surprise that will make itself known soon.
just do us all a tiny favour. go away, or w’ll have to backtrack your i.p., and send the loonie boys after you, with that nice white stiff jacket, that one size, fits all. and lastly, 9/11 was an inside job, but you didn’t hear that from me. just remember that, when you see the missles flying overhead, next year on may 24th.
Yes, what’s the mattter hj? He’s a black Puerto Rican Jew. There’s nothing saying that he can’t be … http://farm1.static.flickr.com/218/4664303…
“He’s a black Puerto Rican Jew”
That did occur to me, pretty unlikely though. (I don’t click links here)
Life Sucks, that’s pretty fucked. Is that post to somehow justify Nice Goin’ Fat’s perversion? Well it does not, and it just makes you look like a dick too.
I will continue to point out how pathetic and sick Nice Goin’ Fat and his cronies are. You look worse and worse with every effort to perpetuate his sadism and perversion.
Notice how it is only the regular clique that contests my assesment of this sick behaviour. No one from outside could possibly justify it, and would find it as disgusting as I.
As one of the “regular clique” I’m curious. Are you made more hysterical by the fact that we don’t take NGF seriously; or that we extend to you the same courtesy?
Hysterical? Big assumption there.
Do you feel important yet? Have you pumped yourself up enough? Have you put others down enough? No, you never will be able fill that void in your soul, no matter how hard you try you cannot validate yourself with this behaviour.
I don’t care if you take that sick fuck seriously or not. That has no bearing on the public reputation of an alternative paper that I used to enjoy. What he says here everyday is going to have an effect on The Coast. Once you let one of these types in, and begin defending him, it is all downhill.
Res ipsa loquiter.
Then why do you defend it?
*shakes hands and poses with Life Sucks and Colonel Ivan Mustafa a la Peter MacKay, Condie Rice and the Mexican dude at the Tri-Lateral Commission conference thing*
Teehee I love these people 🙂
“Gentlemen: To Evil” Now lets go for beer and Bilder-burgers. And because we’re really evil we send the bill to Jesse Ventura.
MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Keep it up. It is your house, and that is your shit on the floor.
Nope, that’s just sebastian sleeping a hangover off.
You keep it up hijabSTD. This is more fun than going to Bedlam and poking sticks at the loonies. And I believe there is a spate of hangings scheduled at Tyburn this afternoon.
Jolly Good Fun.
OP, then quit. Or lose the weight, go to a gym and work those feet.
Hey, everybody, sebastian’s awake!
Hey, who moved that shit on the floor…
that’s where we keep him.
I’ve never been happier to see Sebastian. Weird. Lol