Has this silly topic finished answering the question yet?

Say what this is 2016 ape men. do you not know of Occupational Health & Safety.
I would sack your ass from the office. no shoes at work bunch of tailless monkeys.

I am such a badass, I have gone to work barefoot every summer for the last 10 years and somehow avoided the unbelievable risks of working in a small office such as.... eh, I'm not sure.

If company policy permits it, I personally don't have a problem with people walking around in sandals or things like that. What really bothers me is when coworkers spend most of the day in their shoes and then randomly decide to take them off and immediately fill the surrounding area with the nasty smell of sweating feet. Maybe they can't smell it... but we sure can.

There was this one time I stepped on some chocolate frosting that fell on the floor. In my socks. That was by far the most catastrophic incident I've ever had happen in my decade at this one company. Based on some of the responses, it sounds like it could have been fatal. I guess I got lucky.

Based on some of the responses, it sounds like it could have been fatal. I guess I got lucky.

A client's employee slipped in the office bathroom last year and bashed their head open on the edge of the sink. Someone had splashed soap and water and didn't bother cleaning it up.

At one of my firsts jobs we had one of the women in the office break several bones when someone tripped and knocked a filing cabinet over (top two drawers were open and crammed full of papers while the lower drawers had just been emptied because they were replacing the cabinets with newer ones).

Offices aren't steel foundries, but they're not exactly without risks, and a little attention to detail makes most of them even less likely to happen.

I'm not saying don't be careful, but there's always going to be some situation that catches you off-guard. Why not wear football-style protective gear at all times? You wear whatever is appropriate for the level of risk. There are essentially zero risks where I work. We don't even have filing cabinets. How can I get injured on things that don't exist?

At one of my firsts jobs we had one of the women in the office break several bones when someone tripped and knocked a filing cabinet over (top two drawers were open and crammed full of papers while the lower drawers had just been emptied because they were replacing the cabinets with newer ones).

Filing cabinets should have a safety notice about not doing this exact thing. I have seen several that do.

Offices aren't steel foundries, but they're not exactly without risks, and a little attention to detail makes most of them even less likely to happen.

Mine is! Steel foundries need tech support.

Mine is! Steel foundries need tech support.

Well if your actual 'office' is in the foundry itself, not just on site, then you guys do things really differently than I've ever seen. How do you keep the sparks from setting paperwork on fire? :P But I honestly kind of miss working in an industrial setting.

As for the filing cabinet incident, the saddest part is that they were in the process of unloading the old ones so that they could be replaced with newer units with the safety locks to prevent more than one drawer being opened at a time.

Well if your actual 'office' is in the foundry itself, not just on site, then you guys do things really differently than I've ever seen. How do you keep the sparks from setting paperwork on fire? But I honestly kind of miss working in an industrial setting.

We do have office space, but the business itself is labeled as a steel foundry.

Most places I've worked there are people (including me) who will slip off their shoes while sitting at their desk. Even as I type this my shoes are slipped off, easily put back on. As long as your feet and shoes don't have an offensive odor this shouldn't be an issue.

This also means that in your enviroment you are then intended to have shoes right? at company I worked at, I was explicitely told to get me some sandals when hired as programmer, we all at development section had this rule and everybody followed it, gladly, since being tabled/sitted is great in sandals, we had comfortable low profile carpet everywhere, of course being present in shoes there was totaly fine too. We were leaving all our shoes at the very entrance behind code opened doors where was a space for our shoes and personal sandals.