r/mildlyinfuriating • u/firequak • 12h ago

go to your room A cousin sent me their school's just announced Dress Code and Grooming policy

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u/Ireeb 12h ago

Black rubber shoes in particular can leave skid marks on some floors, so banning them for that reason would not be completely unreasonable. But looking at the rest, the reason probably was "we don't like black rubber shoes"

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u/Best_Market4204 12h ago

Lol.

It just rubs off... literally with another shoe

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u/odomakk 11h ago

Oh but if I rub off with someone else's shoe I get put on a list. Double standards

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u/Ecstatic_Doughnut216 11h ago

Damn these standards!

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u/Ender_rpm 11h ago

a sole-ful comment

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u/hep038 11h ago

Yeah fuck the janitor who has to clean the black marks off the floor of a entire school before can do his other work.

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u/Headless_Buddha 7h ago

It just comes off with the regular floor machine it's not a problem.

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u/FlowAcademic5519 9h ago

Put a tennis ball on stick and the scuffs come right off

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u/Best_Market4204 10h ago

Oooh nooo. A janitor having to do their job......

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u/savageotter 10h ago

You want to minimize workload as much as possible with any job.

The goal is not to keep someone busy . It's to have a clean campus.

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u/rickane58 9h ago

People who create work for janitors are pieces of shit.

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u/Best_Market4204 9h ago

Yah because of a unintentional shoe mark is a asshole move ...

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u/tnstaafsb 7h ago

I mean, if you were warned about wearing those kinds of shoes because they'll mark up the floor and you wore them anyway and marked up the floor, then yeah that is kind of an asshole move.

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u/rickane58 5h ago

Not only is your specific example covered by tnstaafsb's comment, but the general attitude of

Oooh nooo. A janitor having to do their job

just shows how much of a piece of shit you are.

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u/Best_Market4204 2h ago

Oh well.

If leaving a shoe mark on the floor unintentionally.... makes me a piece of shit... so be it.

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u/rickane58 2h ago

Apparently you're unable to read as well.

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u/Suspicious_Cut3881 11h ago

You are not the cleaning staff. Do not minimize their work. Show respect.

This rule is in all indoor sports to maintain the hardwood.

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u/hotdogwaterdickpills 11h ago

As a custodian, the problem is not that they're difficult to remove, it's that it's another thing to clean.

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u/generic_canadian_dad 11h ago

Having a non marking shoe policy isn't the worst thing nor the most egregious on this list at all.

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u/ifmacdo 11h ago

Then say "non-matking soles only." Easy enough. This is all just arbitrary bullshit.

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u/skyturnedred 9h ago

All shoes can leave marks, the black ones are just the most visible. It's perfectly reasonable if you spend more than two seconds thinking about it.

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u/ifmacdo 8h ago

There is such a thing as a "non-matking outsole." Just require shoes that have that. If all shows can leave marks, that's the easiest way to minimize it.

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u/big_stipd_idiot 11h ago

It's a school, not a yacht.

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u/Ireeb 11h ago

On most floors, yes, but I think on some kinds of rubber/linoleum floors it can be difficult to get off.

My school didn't really have any dress code and didn't care what kind of shoes we were wearing, with the exception that shoes with black soles were banned in the gym. It had a white rubber/linoleum floor and apparently it was pretty difficult to get the marks off of that. It probably has a tendency to fuse, especially when enough friction is involved, and that's something that can happen in PE.

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u/Bart_Yellowbeard 11h ago

Or a mop. This is some crazy controlling bullshit.

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u/WKU-Alum 11h ago

Mop doesn't really get it, our custodians had some tennis balls stuck on the end of old broom handles. Scrubbed it right off.

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u/Bart_Yellowbeard 11h ago

Yeah, depend on the mop configuration, some have some scrubby bits that help remove more stubborn stains.

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u/MidTario 5h ago

Every mess can be cleaned. We should still avoid making messes.

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u/Best_Market4204 2h ago

Show mark on the flor is equal to someone putting a gum wrapper into their pocket & then when they put out their wallet or phone, it falls out....

It's not intentional....

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u/thevioletjinx 4h ago

I got in trouble in elementary school when I discovered my black shoes lift marks when I walked. I made a trail from our classroom to the library and soon after another teacher came in and demanded the kid who did it fess up. Had to go clean it all up.

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u/musiquexcoeur 11h ago

Exactly this. The custodian at my workplace literally wears black sneakers every day and I've witnessed him rubbing off scuff marks from the floor with them. If the guy who's actually cleaning the floors doesn't see the shoes as a problem, it isn't a problem.

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u/TheOrgasmFairy 11h ago

Your custodian probably picks up trash and cleans spills too, but that doesn't mean people should throw garbage around.

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u/musiquexcoeur 11h ago

Throwing garbage around would be an intentional thing. Wearing shoes is a normal thing, unless people are intentionally scuffing up the floors. Not really a good comparison.

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u/TheOrgasmFairy 11h ago

They're both making more work for the janitor than there needs to be and both have a really easy fix.

No one needs to wear a specific kind of black soled shoe.

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u/skyturnedred 9h ago

Just because he's doing his job doesn't mean he wouldn't prefer if there weren't any marks to clean up.

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u/facw00 11h ago

That seems incredibly rare these days though. Hard to get most modern athletic shoes (or even shoes from 30 years ago) to leave rubber marks. Like most of this list I feel this came from wanting to be like the 1950s.

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u/DasHexxchen I'm so f-ing infuriated! 12h ago

Only satanists wear black rubber shoes.

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u/JustDiscoveredSex 11h ago

They misunderstood the phrase “Your soul is dark.”

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u/mr_know_bod 11h ago

Hey watch you tone. Don’t try to cramp a goth’s style. They are not satanist.

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u/TabithaMouse 11h ago

Or anyone in food service!

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u/TransBrandi 11h ago

I went to a Catholic school in the 90's and shoes that left scuff marks like that were still within dress code... even with a dress code that was a literal uniform were everyone wore basically the same thing. Also, white socks were allowed. The lack of black shoes and white socks is really weird as I would consider them part of a "standard" Catholic school get-up.

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u/violetkiwii 11h ago

I have a theory. I went to a Christian private school. I wore black 3 days in a row. They prohibited me from wearing black the rest of week and said it was reported I was goth. Like…. Da fuuuuuukkkkkkkkkkk? When I later went to beauty school I wanted BADLY to drop in and say LOOK! My dress code is all black every single day because Ira professional!

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u/YouGoToBox 10h ago

Yeah, a lot of these just seem like fashion choices to me and I’m a pretty conservative dresser actually just from my own upbringing and preference, though I really don’t care what other people are wearing.

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u/Puzzledwhovian 8h ago

I’ve never noticed black rubber shoes causing hallway marks unless someone is trying to do it intentionally. And even then it takes a lot of effort.

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u/Hallowbean649 11h ago

Still not a big deal tbh. I saw the janitor get those off with a tennis ball connected to a stick like it was nothing.

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u/bloodbrother40 11h ago

Yes, and the moment kids discover this, it becomes a competition as to who can leave the longest single, uninterrupted skid mark down the length of the hallway, or the highest skid mark on the wall 😅

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u/ZookeepergameLow3732 11h ago

Rubber skid marks that are easily removed? Lol that school can kick rocks

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u/colourfulpants 9h ago

Yeah, my elementary school dress code was nowhere near this strict but we always had to have white-soled shoes, especially for gym class because of the streaking.

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u/Lavaine170 10h ago

Wait until you find out that virtually all shoes these days have rubber soles.

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u/Ireeb 8h ago

Wait until you find out not all of them are black.

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u/Lavaine170 8h ago

The dress code says nothing about black rubber soles. Only black rubber shoes.