I don't have any pictures, but I generally prefer my floor to be on the bottom.
Seriously, is this a new or existing shop? If it's new, let them do whatever they want, then you can trash it. If it's old, with many layers of scene paint, your facilities director is nuts. Talk about polishing <excrement>!
Perhaps you can make a deal with them to paint it "shop gray" at the beginning of each season?
I once worked in a
theatre that had a huge paint frame on the upstage wall. For one production, they hired buildings and grounds to paint the frame and wall flat black, and left it exposed. For the next 5 years, no one could use the paint frame for fear of getting paint on it! Students didn't even know what it was for, or how it worked. I started using it, and of course got overspray on it, but told "management" I would paint it black again if it was a problem. "Better to beg forgiveness than ask permission" and all that.