Clipping nails around co-workers...rude?

[Karin1984]

Restroom only and only if you HAVE to.
You cannot always control if it's going to fly off or not, and in which direction.

Make up is okay in public.

And I am in doubt about brushing your hair. I also prefer you do that in the restroom.

 

[ronandannette]

Personal grooming should be private. No one wants to see or hear that. How this is not common sense boggles my mind.

And again, I’ll tell you this story. First class dinner service I finally finish with drink orders and starting to deliver meals. 3B, who had passed on dinner, decided it’s a good time to clip his toenails. I kindly told him not during the meal service, and if he wished to continue to please go to the lavatory. He put the clippers away, never got them back out. I know I embarrassed him. Good! Hope he never did that again.

At least you only have to deal with that in first-class. No way could anybody crammed into economy get their foot into a position where they could reach it with clippers. Maybe seat-mates could clip each other's though.

 

[fly girl]

Make up is okay in public.

If it’s a lip product, sure. But other than that, go to the restroom.

This was on my local radio station the other day. I laughed so hard!! It’s about makeup application in public.
https://www.wkrq.com/episode/second-date-update-hey-lets-go-to-outback/

 

[Wendy1985]

Sometimes my pony tail comes off in the gym and I put it back in in front of everyone and don’t think anything if it, no brushing the closest to that is my fingers

 

[leebee]

It's personal grooming, and should be done in privacy. Put flossing your teeth on that list, too.

 

[ronandannette]

If it’s a lip product, sure. But other than that, go to the restroom.

This was on my local radio station the other day. I laughed so hard!! It’s about makeup application in public.
https://www.wkrq.com/episode/second-date-update-hey-lets-go-to-outback/

Was that segment a real thing or something set up? It was funny but it just seemed a little too smooth to be impromptu.

 

[MillauFr]

Doesn't bother me at all

 

[robinb]

I had a coworker cut his toe nails in a meeting! He was a brilliant computer programmer but very socially awkward and geeky. He was proof that there is a lid fit every pot since he was married and he wife was pregnant when I left the company.

 

[fly girl]

Was that segment a real thing or something set up? It was funny but it just seemed a little too smooth to be impromptu.

It’s Second Date Update, it is absolutely real and hysterical. It is not done live on the air, it is pre-recorded so it is edited. They have to edit it, language is often bleeped out, and some are too provocative to make it to air. The ones that are not suitable for radio make it to Second Date Uncensored online.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

These kinds of things are best done in private.

I hate it when a nail breaks unexpectedly but no I'm not going to fix it at my desk or out in public. I would go to the restroom if need be. I don't like filing nails either.

To me chapstick is fine in public but if you're putting on lip stick or tinted gloss or something like that to me that's makeup no matter the application and should be done in private (if out and about the restroom).

 

[J'aime Paris]

DD and I were in the Delta Sky Club lounge recently, enjoying some food and waiting for our flight.

A lady a the table next to us started clipping her nails, right over her own food!!

I was so grossed out! It took all I had to restrain myself and not call her out...disgusting!!

 

[LuvOrlando]

Just reading this skeeved me, letting bits of yourself fly all over the place where it could land on someone else... the horror.

If a fingernail cracks then it is ok to use a file or emery board briefly to prevent more damage, I've never seen anyone do more than this, thank goodness. Isn't this a common knowledge thing?

 

[lucas]

Gross!

 

[emer95]

Ew!! That is really disgusting.
Now I do admit that I keep a nail clipper in my desk at work if I get an emergency hang nail or something, but I’d only clip it discreetly when no one else was around. And I’d make darn sure the little clipping would go straight into the trash.

 

[ramee]

My DH's dad was a public nail clipper. He used to keep a manicure set on a side table next to his reclining chair in the main room. I never visited their home without seeing his nail clippers there, ever. When we first got married, DH came out with his clippers and was going to do a full on grooming session in front of the tv. I'm pretty sure he was picking a place of honor for his clippers to sit permanently. I made it pretty clear that the only time it was going to be okay to full on clip his nails in a shared space with me was if we were living in one room (like a hotel room etc.) DH doesn't always get social cues and was brought up with a weird lack of boundaries so I've had to be pretty clear.

Thats in his private home, though. My dad kept clippers and a file beside his spot on the couch, too. But he’s pretty private and I don’t remember him grooming when anyone else was around. Especially not if company was over.

 

[Starport Seven-Five]

Not acceptable. The sound doesn't bother me but knowing the distance clippings can fly is an issue. Feel like I should be wearing safety glasses when near someone doing that.

 

[robinb]

Thats in his private home, though. My dad kept clippers and a file beside his spot on the couch, too. But he’s pretty private and I don’t remember him grooming when anyone else was around. Especially not if company was over.

Yeah, I don’t see anything wrong with clipping/filing nails anywhere in your own home.

 

[RangerPooh]

Nope. Not acceptable at work. It's one thing if you're doing it in your bathroom and someone is talking to you, but not at work.

 

[_19disnA]

Any type of 'personal grooming' should be done in private, preferably at home and in the bathroom. Are they really that bored at work to do such things at their desk? The thing that just strikes me as odd about trimming your finger nails in public is they don't grow that fast. Couldn't you have taken care of that sometime in the last week when at home? Some people just seem oblivious to that. It would be a bit like brushing your teeth or flossing in public. If you happen to break a nail, then it makes sense to trim just that one, but I would still use the restroom to do that.

 

[Cheburashka]

I know several people I've worked with who have no issue with clipping their fingernails (guys and I'm also a guy so not throwing too much shade ) and they have no issue with it.

For me it bothers me. I practically never do it near others, or just if I have a nail that just needs something immediate done to it. I clip them at home or in my car, etc. I hate the sound nail clippers make if someone else is doing it and just seems something not to do near others.

Am I weird or do other people think the same way?

Is this really a question? Of course it is extremely rude. Yuck.