On footwear (210/365)

[white_hart]

The hardest thing about going back to working in the office after 15 months of working remotely is having to wear shoes all day. I much prefer wearing slippers or just going barefoot or in socks, but the state of my office floor means that even without considerations of professionalism, barefoot really isn't an option at work.

I'm also finding that walking 1.8 miles each way on pavements is very different from going for morning walks in the countryside and my feet are definitely feeling the strain. This is probably partly because I'm not wearing my proper walking shoes, because I've been trying to manage without bringing spare shoes to work to change into or getting back into keeping shoes in the office (I still have a lot of shoes in the office, but none of them I shoes I would actually wear any more, and I've lost the distinction between "work" and "non-work" clothes enough that none of the shoes I do want to wear are ones I want to leave in the office and not have access to if I want them), and my walking shoes are definitely too hefty to wear all day.

I'm seriously wondering whether I should just get some work slippers. As long as they weren't fluffy, would people even notice?

Comments

[alithea]

I sincerely doubt anyone will notice. I wore slippers in the office when we had awful weather and I'd walked into work in snow boots which I did not want to wear all day and literally *one* person noticed, and those were fake fur booties so arguably 'fluffy'. And that was one person out of an entire floor of open plan office, so maybe 30 people?

[white_hart]

At the moment I'm still seeing most people via Teams anyway, of course!