Money Moral Dilemma: Would you replace the shoes?

FC-Frecky

of course I would buy the shoeless person shoes

hstudent

oldnthrifty wrote: »

Peter should not buy the shoes......Claire should buy her own shoes and give the reciept to her employer.

Claires journey was a journey to work, so she could claim that her employer should have provided adequate safety footware.

And her employer would laugh at her. If you drove your car in to a wall on your way to work and asked your employer to pay £3000 for a replacement, do you think they'd pay? Why would this be any different?

Should her employer provide her with a car if she lives three miles from the nearest station?

hstudent

Relating to how crowded the trains were:

Train operators aren't allowed to purchase new carriages, they can only lease them. Almost every carriage in the UK is leased to an operator. New carriages have to be approved by the Department of Transport as a carriage lasts for a lot longer than a rail franchise.

If it was the London Underground then they can say we provide a services at least every 5 minutes. If it was Northern Rail the trains bounce up and down, so they aren't really safe to stand on and you're lucky if the next service is in 30 minutes. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI5sv_FaNtQ for what a Leeds-Rochdale-Manchester service is like in the morning peak.

Gizza-bit

Absolutely - but ...
It would seem that 'I' stood on her foot - resulting in her losing a shoe onto the track.
Too many folks blame others / other things as the cause of so many things - more of us should be accepting of our faults ... in this case = definitely.
I would agree to buy her a replacement pair .... on my insurance policy, so she could have my (real) details. But, another question raises it's head = at what cost?

I would feel genuinely guilty for this so would be (unfortunately) accepting of buying a replacement pair on my insurance - but - if she then asked for excessively priced shoes in compensation, then I would likely feel different - so annoyed as she may rightly be, I may also feel 'aggrieved'.

On the whole - Yes.
But with reservations for sure (sadly) - such is life today!

stuart_connolly

i would say sorry and leave it at that. The person should wear shoes that stay on.

pineapple

Where does it say it's a guy that trod on her foot? (or was this in an earlier version?).
If it was me that trod on her foot, sorry but no. Accidents happen. What was she doing wearing shoes that come off so easily?
I wouldn't get off the train with her either. What's the point of the two of us being late for work?
Sorry I'm not feeling charitable today!
Edit: But if it was an elderly person, yes I would stop to help.

clairmelville

I agree with previous posts that it was an accident.
HOWEVER, he has caused a woman to lose her shoe (and unless it was her fault then she should be able to wear whatever she likes with no-one commenting on her attire) and I for one would not travel from the rail station to work with only one shoe.
He should buy her new (at least wearable and in keeping with her outfit) shoes. Only polite, and gives him the ability to travel on the train in future with no guilt or bad feeling.

BankFree

I'd apologise profusely but at the end of the day it was an accident...

marich

If one has chosen to wear a pair of shoes which might come adrift then one should accept the consequences . Not everything that happens to us is entirely somebody else's fault - and even , then they can not always 'make it alright' again .
If that had been my shoe I would be looking to recover it - not playing the 'blame game' with a hapless stranger as we sped away .
After all - whose shoe is it anyway ?

onoski

This dilemma thread made me chuckle as this has actually happened to me last year. I stepped onto the tube to go to work - about two stops. I was wearing slip on shoes - a lady dragging a large suitcase behind me stepped on the back of my shoe - my foot came out. I looked back to see if it was on the train - looked back on the platform - nope not there. The woman didn't realise that she knocked off my shoe. The doors were closing - and I needed to get to work. I think in hindsight I would have got off the tube and got one of the staff to fish it off the track for me.

I was livid - but I didn't cause a scene with the woman. People afterwards said that I should have said something to the lady, but I am not really one to be starting a scene.

Anyway, I got off the tube with one shoe (trying to hide my foot under my trouser and hoping nobody noticed!) and went straight to BHS and picked up the first pair of black shoes I could find. And it was raining too so my sock got wet!