Clipping fingernails at work

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brotato_chip7
brotato_chip7 Posts: 660 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
Ok / Not ok?
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  • J_NY_Z
    J_NY_Z Posts: 2,540 Member
    No...we're trying to have a civilized society.
  • crohnsfighter
    crohnsfighter Posts: 689 Member
    No.

    Maybe it's just me but I don't view it as acceptable professional behavior in an office.
    To me it's not hygienic around others, especially to those in close proximity (line-of-sight and/or earshot).
  • Frieswithdatshake
    Frieswithdatshake Posts: 630 Member
    WTF is wrong with you.
  • Machafin
    Machafin Posts: 2,988 Member
    Don't do that.
  • funjen1972
    funjen1972 Posts: 949 Member
    I get to hear the disgusting click click click several times a week. Ewwww.

    Personal hygiene activities should be done in private.
  • brotato_chip7
    brotato_chip7 Posts: 660 Member
    Glad were in agreement. It's effing disgusting. Someone may get a throat punch today.
  • bojack5
    bojack5 Posts: 2,859 Member
    Well my office is in my house.....and i largely work alone.....so maybe i do it once in a while ;)
  • huntersvonnegut
    huntersvonnegut Posts: 1,177 Member
    So I guess flossing is frowned on too?
  • brotato_chip7
    brotato_chip7 Posts: 660 Member
    huntersvonnegut wrote: »
    So I guess flossing is frowned on too?

    At your desk? Yes.
  • shaf238
    shaf238 Posts: 4,022 Member
    God no.
  • rdevol
    rdevol Posts: 278 Member
    I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say what's the big deal? I don't understand why people get grossed out by someone trimming a hangnail.
  • brotato_chip7
    brotato_chip7 Posts: 660 Member
    rdevol wrote: »
    I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say what's the big deal? I don't understand why people get grossed out by someone trimming a hangnail.

    Fixing a hangnail is one thing. Doing your regular grooming at work, versus at home, is another.
  • brotato_chip7
    brotato_chip7 Posts: 660 Member
    Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »
    I have my own office. I clip my own nails at work. No one sees or hears me

    That's different. No issue with that.
  • kindalikevelma
    kindalikevelma Posts: 1,337 Member
    Perhaps if he/she is doing it directly into their trash, I don’t see how it would be any different than blowing their nose into a tissue and tossing it into the bin. However if they are clipping away and wiping them onto the floor, or leaving them on on public surfaces, then I’d have an issue with it.

    So glad I work from home and my coworkers are literal dogs.
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
    What about nail filing? Is this as gross?
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    edited October 2018
    Probably not unless it is just one broken nail you clip to even it out quickly so you stop snagging it on things. If you need to clip all of your nails do it in the restroom, your car, or at home.
    I'm not bothered by the sound or grossed out. I just think grooming yourself should probably not be done at your professional work desk at all. I think that includes filing nails, painting nails, plucking hairs, styling hair, applying makeup, shaving, applying deodorant or perfume/cologne, brushing teeth, or flossing.
  • iMago
    iMago Posts: 8,714 Member
    oh man imagine you just started working at a new job. you go in. they show you your office or cubicle or whatever. you sit down and get started. you arrange everything all nice the way you want it. you log in and start setting up your email sig and what not. you work all day and you're happy with the new place.

    then at the end of the day, you look down and see loose fingernail clippings from the previous employee, that landed in the keyboard that you've been using all day.
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,572 Member
    No ok.
    But did you actually tell the person you saw doing this at work that it was Not ok?
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,510 Member
    Frieswithdatshake wrote: »
    WTF is wrong with you?

    Dang, I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard that.
  • brotato_chip7
    brotato_chip7 Posts: 660 Member
    Frieswithdatshake wrote: »
    WTF is wrong with you.

    So, so, so many things...
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    no
    no filing
    and please please please no plucking
  • kam26001
    kam26001 Posts: 2,794 Member
    I think that is uncouth and unprofessional and all the other un's you can think of. Take that barbarism into the break room and do it over the sink so we really have something to talk about at the Christmas party.
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    Tenebrous_D wrote: »
    Yes. The more the better. I try to make my cube look like I'm running a wood chipper inside. Shrapnel everywhere. Toes too! *kitten* it, why not, right? I also microwave fish for lunch, even when I don't eat it.

    This made me laugh so damn hard
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    Didn't think there was a right or wrong about it, but I usually do mine at home.
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    denny_mac wrote: »
    I don't have an issue with it. I don't understand why people think it's so disgusting. But I can respect that others have different takes on what is disgusting. I don't do it unless it's something that really requires attention right then and there. I wouldn't just make that my regular nail trimming place. Just like I don't usually cut my own hair at my desk. I don't think it would be gross, but I still don' t do it.

    I’m with you. I don’t get why it’s gross. I understand that I’m in the minority but for the life of me I can’t figure out what’s gross about it.

    Now if someone is clipping their toe nails and they drop them in my Froot Loops.. that’s super not okay, Wanda!
  • glgcam5150
    glgcam5150 Posts: 3,728 Member
    Avocado_AS5 wrote: »
    What about nail filing? Is this as gross?
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  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    Ok... so last week one day I woke up with nail polish on that just had to come off...I'd 'patched it' too many times...brought my polish remover to work

    ...have nail trimmers in my giant girly bag of tricks....did trim one or two (in the x-ray room...not in 'public')
    ...and filed and oiled them

    Am I totally gross?
  • iMago
    iMago Posts: 8,714 Member
    @Vikka_V wrote: »
    Ok... so last week one day I woke up with nail polish on that just had to come off...I'd 'patched it' too many times...brought my polish remover to work

    ...have nail trimmers in my giant girly bag of tricks....did trim one or two (in the x-ray room...not in 'public')
    ...and filed and oiled them

    Am I totally gross?

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  • brotato_chip7
    brotato_chip7 Posts: 660 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    Ok... so last week one day I woke up with nail polish on that just had to come off...I'd 'patched it' too many times...brought my polish remover to work

    ...have nail trimmers in my giant girly bag of tricks....did trim one or two (in the x-ray room...not in 'public')
    ...and filed and oiled them

    Am I totally gross?

    Yes, K. You gross...lol.
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