Woman Confronts Co-Worker Over Gross Habit — but She Refuses to Stop
Since joining a law firm, one new intern has "been taking off her shoes while working," according to a Reddit user
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A woman sitting barefoot in her office with her feet on her desk in stock photoAn office worker says their coworker has an unusual habit: removing her shoes and going barefoot while at work.
In a post shared to Reddit, an anonymous intern writes that she began her current stint at a law firm in December, and a new intern joined in January.
Since joining the firm, the new intern has "been taking off her shoes while working," according to the Reddit user.
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Stock photo of a woman taking her heels off in the office"Since we share the same table, the smell becomes unbearable. (She wears shoes without socks, and with the building's elevator out of order, we’ve been climbing five flights of stairs daily in 31°C/87.8°F weather.)," the intern writes in her post.
The intern adds that she's "been addressing this issue privately for a few days now—starting with subtle hints and eventually directly asking her to keep her shoes on," but the same issue keeps arising.
Now, she's done being quiet.
"Today, the same issue arose, but this time, I confronted her in front of other coworkers (who happened to be her juniors from the same college)," the intern writes.
Her fellow intern says she has no plans to discontinue the habit, however, and wears "uncomfortable" heels that she plans to "continue" taking off while at work.
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Now, the poster wants to know if she's in the wrong for requesting her coworker keep her shoes on.
Reddit users by and large say the poster was right to chide her coworker for the habit, with one writing, "It’s a shared workspace, and it’s fair to ask for some basic consideration. Nobody should have to deal with smelly shoes."
Adds another: "She was openly hostile to you first and also it’s outright just unhygienic to take your bare feet out in an office."
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