Clipping nails around co-workers...rude?

[mumto3girls]

Yes. Rude. Ick.

 

[here757]

Ranks up there with nose pickers..

 

[1GoldenSun]

I don't even want to SEE someone else's nail clippers.

Filing nails in public is worse, though. At least nail clippings can ostensibly can be contained and disposed of, but when you file your nails those dead skin cells are flying everywhere. I can SMELL nails being filed. Yuck.

 

[aprilgail]

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?

That is disgusting- I hated being on the train and people would not only cut their fingernails but their toe nails too! It was nasty! At work I used to have this co worker that would come into the locker room ( we ate lunch in there!) and would take out a file and start filing her callouses on her heels and toes- made me want to vomit!

 

[mrodgers]

About 20 years ago in LA I was in a store by the front windows and a woman walking down the street stopped, looked at her reflection, opened her mouth, and started flossing her teeth.

I've mentioned before... Today people just do it in their cars with those single use dental pick/floss and throw them out the window. I ride a bicycle, the road shoulders everywhere are filled with them. You will never notice them in a car. On a bicycle, you see them for miles.

 

[tzolkin]

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?

This is why I would probably say something to the person. You don’t cut your nails that often and you need a specialized tool to do it. So they had to think this was a good idea and made a purposeful, pre-planned decision to clip their nails at work in front of other people. I cannot think of any logical reason that someone would do that.

 

[disykat]

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

Sure, if you're alone. Making it a public thing in front of everyone else who happens to be there is weird to me. Family or not, there are some things that should be done privately. I have (and probably will again) had to help family members with their nails when they were unable to do it themselves, but I still have no desire to watch my husband cut his nails, much less his father! Watching TV to the sound of his nail clipper. There are times DH or I might be doing our nails and the other one walks in the room randomly, but we don't set up purposely to make it a spectator event!

 

[robinb]

Sure, if you're alone. Making it a public thing in front of everyone else who happens to be there is weird to me. Family or not, there are some things that should be done privately. I have (and probably will again) had to help family members with their nails when they were unable to do it themselves, but I still have no desire to watch my husband cut his nails, much less his father! Watching TV to the sound of his nail clipper. There are times DH or I might be doing our nails and the other one walks in the room randomly, but we don't set up purposely to make it a spectator event!

Nah, I don’t mind it from family either. I guess I’m just not squigged out by things like that in my home. In public, yes but not at home.

 

[AndreaDM]

I only do it if say I break a nail or something and I want to even it out so I don't snag my clothes. And then just that one, not my whole hands!

 

[ronandannette]

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.

I do my mani/pedis in the living room on the couch (perfect lighting in that particular spot) while watching TV but only when I'm completely alone. Not even in front of DH or DS. It would just feel weird.

 

[tcufrog]

I used to share an office with 3 other librarians. Once, I walked in and saw one of them cutting another librarian's hair.

 

[starry_solo]

If the nail just broke, ok, just for that nail.
Or if there's a loose piece of skin near the nail that is irritating.

I think those are the only two that I'm ok with. But just those things, don't start trimming the other nails to match, etc.

 

[floridafam]

Took my car in for an oil change a few months ago and a woman started clipping her nails in the waiting room. I was speechless. I should have started flossing my teeth right next to her.

 

[Dznypal]

We were in line for the buffet at the casino and there were 2 older ladies a few people ahead of us. One of them pulls out an embroidery clippers and starts trimming chin hairs of her friend. I gave her the stink eye and she put the clippers away. That sure was nasty

 

[disykat]

I'd don't get an "EWWW" response from chin hair, but how embarrassing!

 

[RedAngie]

Took my car in for an oil change a few months ago and a woman started clipping her nails in the waiting room. I was speechless. I should have started flossing my teeth right next to her.

I couldn’t believe it when I saw that woman flossing to her reflection in the store window.

Well, yes, I COULD. People are strange. She wasn’t using one of those disposable picks. She dug a packet of regular floss out of her handbag.

 

[Drewsdad]

Rude is an understatement. Nasty is the word I use…

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I never even thought about it, or noticed it before. Yesterday I heard a clicking noise. I looked over, and sure enough this girl was sitting at her desk clipping her toenails.

 

[soccerdad72]

Yeah, I used to have a co-worker who would clip her nails in her cubicle during the day. Drove me nuts.

 

[Mysterian]

I don't like this either.
The idea of toenails is especially damn nasty. I just imagine someone pulling off a sock and producing a gnarled goblin foot with sharp stalks. Keep it in the shoes!