From: Shaun Goodbrand
Subject: Barefoot at work
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:02:03 ZA

Hi all,

Thanks to the support of the group, I made a New Year's resolution to 
minimise the use of shoes at work and from Monday, the perfect 
opportunity arose.  Whereas it took me between 5 and 7 minutes to 
reach my desk from my car, we moved to new offices where I literally 
park behind the building.

I have, for weeks, only been wearing slip ons and slipping them off 
when I reached my desk and gradually venturing out further during the 
day.

Then the only comments had been positive, like:
at the printer- "We are casual today.  Should do it myself."
at a meeting- "Shaun, you know you are not wearing shoes".  "Yes, of
course".  "Cool". 

So thus encouraged, on Friday afternoon, when moving office, I left 
my shoes in the car.  No, only had to move a few PCs, no heavy 
furniture.  I had just been moved to supervise a group of 2 or 3 and 
when I looked around there were two of us barefoot in these new 
offices.  Another colleague noticed this and said, "Shaun, you are 
influencing your group.  I think there should be a rule that your 
group goes barefoot.  I might even join you!"

Well, he hasn't yet but this afternoon, another shed the shoes, although 
I politely explained that it was probably more polite not to, since 
his feet had been imprisoned all day.  Luckily, I have been 
recovering from 'flu, so my sense of smell isn't so good at the 
moment.

Maybe the trend will continue with my example.  Tomorrow, however, I 
need to give a presentation, so for one day at least, it's sh#@s.

Take care,
Shoeless Shaun