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Clipping your fingernails at work (1 Viewer)

Clipping your nails at the office

  • Sure, why not.

    Votes: 28 34.1%

  • Disgusting. Perpetrators should be burned alive.

    Votes: 54 65.9%
  • Total voters
    82
NutterButter said:
That's what I do with my mouth wash.   Christ, come to think of it, other than showering and shaving, I do everything at work.   Have my deodorant, mouthwash, nail clippers, floss and facial lotion (don't hate, I get dry skin in the winter) at work.   Just so damn convenient.   
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Why shave at home? Get yourself a Norelco and do that #### while you're in your first meeting.

 
mr. furley said:
one is a totally voluntary act of personal hygiene, absolutely unnecessary at work, which is best performed at home or at least in a bathroom at your place of employment if you have an urgent compulsion to trim up your nails at the office..  an insulin shot is a life saving necessity. so i can see how you would confuse the two as being the same.
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If it was up to you-it would be considered gross for co-workers to brush their teeth after lunch at the workplace restroom.  My point about a diabetic injecting insulin wasn't a comparison about trimming nails to managing diabetes in regards to level of importance. It was in regards to the claim that people like you have in regards to thinking that somebody trimming nails with their own personal clipper, in their own personal office or cubicle, over their own trash can is somehow repulsive in the sense of it being gross biologically at the workplace.  If that angle wasn't completely clear--it should be now.  People with your stance think its okay for a sick co-worker to blow their snot into tissues all day and throw them into their trash cans throughout the day if they have a cold--but think that a healthy person taking 3 minutes to clip their nails over the same trash can is gross?  Secondly--I'm not the one that is wishy washy in regards to my stance.   You went from saying that clipping nails at the work place is an absolute no-no to now saying that maybe it would be okay if it was done in the restroom--so I'm not sure why you find it necessary to continue a snarky tone.  Anyhow-I appreciate the back and forth.  

 
jvdesigns2002 said:
If it was up to you-it would be considered gross for co-workers to brush their teeth after lunch at the workplace restroom.  My point about a diabetic injecting insulin wasn't a comparison about trimming nails to managing diabetes in regards to level of importance. It was in regards to the claim that people like you have in regards to thinking that somebody trimming nails with their own personal clipper, in their own personal office or cubicle, over their own trash can is somehow repulsive in the sense of it being gross biologically at the workplace.  If that angle wasn't completely clear--it should be now.  People with your stance think its okay for a sick co-worker to blow their snot into tissues all day and throw them into their trash cans throughout the day if they have a cold--but think that a healthy person taking 3 minutes to clip their nails over the same trash can is gross?  Secondly--I'm not the one that is wishy washy in regards to my stance.   You went from saying that clipping nails at the work place is an absolute no-no to now saying that maybe it would be okay if it was done in the restroom--so I'm not sure why you find it necessary to continue a snarky tone.  Anyhow-I appreciate the back and forth.  
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Nobody is talking about the restroom, sport.

 
Ignoramus said:
Why shave at home? Get yourself a Norelco and do that #### while you're in your first meeting.
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I don't like an electric shave.  And I need to shower before my shave; dry skin so the steam of the shower really softens it up.   I have my system down.   I'm always open to suggestions, but I'm not reading anything good yet.  

 
Ignoramus said:
Nobody is talking about the restroom, sport.
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I'm not sure how my stance is getting blurred here--so let me make it crystal clear. There are some personal hygiene things that I don't think are disgusting if they are done in the privacy of ones own cubicle or office using their own equipment.  Trimming nails, brushing hair, applying makeup, blowing their nose and taking medication (even if it involves injecting insulin) are all things that I would put in that category. Would I encourage people to do these things in their cubicles--no--but I wouldn't be absolutely disgusted by them either.  

There are some personal grooming habits that should be done in the restroom. Trimming nose hair, brushing teeth, using mouthwash would all fall into that category.  Some of these habits--I would not endorse doing at work--some of them I would--but I would not find any of them absolutely disgusting. 

That's all I'm saying.  Is that crystal clear? 

 
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It takes about a minute to clip your finger and toe nails..do it at home on a weekend!!

 
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Have a new guy here in my office that clips his nails.  Or he has a few times.  The first time I let it go.  The second time I said something to him.  Hasn't happened again since.  

For the record, the second time was like two days later.  And its not the act that bothers me (and others) so much as the noise.  And this guy was clipping like 5 times in a minute.  Where are those going if you're clipping that fast?   :X   I just asked if he'd do that in the bathroom in the future.

 
guys>  i have to shave my balls today. didn't have time this morning to weed whack.  cool if i do it at my desk, right?  it's just a little buzzing sound. nobody is going to mind, right?

 
I use to work for a Dow 30 company in St Paul that makes sticky stuff and abrasive stuff  ;) . First day, my boss brings me around to make some introductions. Stop in to meet the VP of IT. During our discussion, he started clipping his nails and shining his shoes. My boss had warned me he would do this  :mellow: .

 
it's pretty telling that instead of addressing the actual issue, those opposed have to bring up some other, more disgusting activity. ie: "well, would you shave your balls at work too?" yup, totally what we were talking about, chief.

 
I'd find it strange but I'm not too grossed out but much hygiene stuff.  I know sometimes I keep my smelly gym clothes in my office, may inadvertently adjust myself in front of a coworker, care for softball war wounds from the weekend, etc. so if I saw somebody clipping their fingernails on her break I wouldn't say anything. 

 
I wear sandals on Fridays just so I can do my toenails at work.   Then I take a good run at my calluses, in the break room. 

 
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This isn't a hygiene issue, it's a grooming issue. But either way, take care of it at home. Why annoy coworkers with clipping noises?

 
Peyton Marino said:
it's pretty telling that instead of addressing the actual issue, those opposed have to bring up some other, more disgusting activity. ie: "well, would you shave your balls at work too?" yup, totally what we were talking about, chief.
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it's basically doing heroin at work, guy

doesn't get much worse

 
If I am feeling frisky I will trim up the nose hairs too.  Usually just get scissors off someones desk.  I love the cherry chap-stick that receptionist uses.   It is fair game if she leaves it out, right?

 
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Just clipped mine at work. I have an office and close the door, but my fingernails were clicking weirdly on my keyboard and annoying me so I hacked them off.

My business partner is disgusted by nail clipping, so every once in awhile I'll go into his office, shut the door, and clip them on his floor and desk while he is there just to piss him off.

 
While I don't personally consider nail-clipping to be that bad a thing to do, I suspect that those who clip in the office are also more likely to exhibit annoying, intrusive and/or distracting behavior in general. So, even if people are trying isolate the nail-clipping itself, they're picturing it being done by someone they would dislike for other reasons as well.

 
TakiToki said:
While I don't personally consider nail-clipping to be that bad a thing to do, I suspect that those who clip in the office are also more likely to exhibit annoying, intrusive and/or distracting behavior in general. So, even if people are trying isolate the nail-clipping itself, they're picturing it being done by someone they would dislike for other reasons as well.
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i am a cyclist so you may be onto something

 
bananafish said:
I don't find clipping one's nails to be all that disgusting but it's a weird thing to be doing at work regardless.
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I have a weird ocd thing with my fingernails, where I'll be sitting in a meeting or driving to work or something and I'll realize one nail is a bit too long or has a jagged edge, and I get somewhat obsessed with it until I can clip that *******. I have clippers everywhere - car, briefcase, all bathrooms, and of course at work. If I were climbing mount Everest, I would definitely bring a nail clipper, because its like torture to me to have a long nail and no clippers.

That said, about 10 years ago I became aware that it is offensive to some people, so always close my office door or sneak off somewhere to clip in private. 

 
Poke_4_Life said:
Have a new guy here in my office that clips his nails.  Or he has a few times.  The first time I let it go.  The second time I said something to him.  Hasn't happened again since.  

For the record, the second time was like two days later.  And its not the act that bothers me (and others) so much as the noise.  And this guy was clipping like 5 times in a minute.  Where are those going if you're clipping that fast?   :X   I just asked if he'd do that in the bathroom in the future.
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Whoa - I assumed nobody was ever going to actually answer about what was gross.  So for you it's the noise... gotcha.  

 
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