Is it gross to file finger nails at the office?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s an issue - I work in a cube and cut and file my nails all the time. No one has said anything to me!

Disgusting. Why can't you do this at home?

Also, in general adults in the workplace generally don't scold other adults. They just talk about you behind your back.

I do it at work bc I can, it’s like they are paying me to do it. And my coworkers and I have honest relationships with each other - they would tell me if it was an issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes, would you pick your nose at your desk? Squeeze a blackhead? Wipe your arse?

No, because these are private ablutions to be undertaken in a bathroom or your own home.

Disgusting all these people saying :no its not gross.

You're all disgusting!

Do you blow your nose? Sneeze? Wipe your mouth while eating? Take an aspirin?

Those are not the same thing. No, I do not blow my nose when someone other than my family is around. I will wipe my nose but now violently blow it.

If you know, you know. Otherwise you just have no manners.

We are talking about inside an office with a door open.

If you know, you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone can hear it, yes. I see this as no different than cutting your nails in a public place.

I really think it's gross -- just tacky. In a bathroom, maybe, or if no one can see or hear you...

[Anonymous]

Does this mean that you can’t fart at your desk/cube/office? You have to go to a bathroom? What if someone is in there?

[Anonymous]

One or two nails that you broke? No.

All your nails? Yes.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

I've never taken a nail file to work. I have worked no less than 4-8 days where I had a snaggly nail bothering me all day. It was sooooo satisfying to get home and file it as soon as I got home. Even with how annoying broken nails are at work I wouldn't ever do that at work, it's just gross.

[Anonymous]

This is crazy. Why shouldn’t you be able to do normal things at work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s an issue - I work in a cube and cut and file my nails all the time. No one has said anything to me!

Disgusting. Why can't you do this at home?

Also, in general adults in the workplace generally don't scold other adults. They just talk about you behind your back.

DP. Do you have a pathological fear of keratin and skin cells? Because I have bad news for you, your office is absolutely coated in dead skin cell flakes.

A little filed keratin, NBD.

No, but I don’t want your nasty hair and skin all over me. Of course we can’t help some of it shedding naturally but you don’t have to groom in my presence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. Why shouldn’t you be able to do normal things at work?

Normal like clipping your nails? Because there is simply no need for it. Plenty of things are normal but we don’t do it in the company of others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone can hear it, yes. I see this as no different than cutting your nails in a public place.

Cutting nails in public is revolting. Filing just a step better, but still disgusting and low class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:in your own office is fine

This, it's fine in a private office, but please shut the door so those sitting outside the office don't hear the skritch, skritch, skritch as you file. That's just common courtesy, OP. I hope though that this is all referring just to a quick touch-up filing due to a ragged nail, and not a full 10-finger filing and buffing session preparatory to painting your nails etc. That isn't some kind of moral wrong, it's just...not super professional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never taken a nail file to work. I have worked no less than 4-8 days where I had a snaggly nail bothering me all day. It was sooooo satisfying to get home and file it as soon as I got home. Even with how annoying broken nails are at work I wouldn't ever do that at work, it's just gross.

Good grief, a "snaggly" nail catching on clothes, scraping you etc.? Go into the bathroom and file, or go to your car at lunchtime or on a break and file there! It's a problem nail, you're not giving yourself two coats of polish on the boss's clock. There's no moral high ground in letting something like a ripped or broken nail go because you won't file it except at home. Use the bathroom or your car. Simple, discreet, done, and you won't spend the rest of the day distracted!

[Anonymous]

I vote fixing one quick snag or break is fine; filing all or majority of nails is not fine. My cube mate used to cut all of her fingernails at her desk!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I vote fixing one quick snag or break is fine; filing all or majority of nails is not fine. My cube mate used to cut all of her fingernails at her desk!!!!!!

What’s wrong with cutting nails in a cube? The cleaning crew will come and vacuum it daily