Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I snag a nail on something, I'm going to clip it right then and there rather then deal with a jagged nail all day. I'm not doing all 10 on the regular.

Same, but I'll do it over my trashcan. I'm only going to snip a straggly nail.

I will say, the noise doesn't bother me. I don't think fingernails are gross.

Same, except I keep nail scissors in the office so there’s no clicking sound.

OP here. These responses are useful. For the person who said no one does this - wrong! TWO people in my open plan office do this in their cubicles and are clearly clipping all of their fingernails. The sound and concept drives me bonkers.

I work in a highly quantitative profession with - to put it politely - somewhat socially-impaired introverted people (which I can be a bit, too) so I wasn’t sure if *I* was the weird intolerant one for disliking this so much. Was genuinely trying to understand why someone would do this outside the home.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My wife hates the sound. I do it in the office so I don't bother her.

Good point so do it in the office so everyone else has to hear.

I love my wife. I don't even like my co-workers.

Anonymous wrote:My wife hates the sound. I do it in the office so I don't bother her.

Good point so do it in the office so everyone else has to hear.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so weird I can't believe how many people have coworkers who do this. And I work in tech where people barely wear shoes.

If you work in an industry where most people have individual offices, I don't see what's wrong with it.

We don't want nail clippings flying around and buried in the carpet or on papers. Snd that cound carries.
Scuze me while I get out my nasal hair trimmer...

I’ll finish your subject line:

…you should be shot and thrown in the dumpster.

Anonymous wrote:This is so weird I can't believe how many people have coworkers who do this. And I work in tech where people barely wear shoes.

If you work in an industry where most people have individual offices, I don't see what's wrong with it.

This is so weird I can't believe how many people have coworkers who do this. And I work in tech where people barely wear shoes.

No. This is not appropriate behavior at a regular workplace. Violinists sometimes need to do this right before a performance if they realize that their nails are too long for pressing on the strings, and since I've got violinists in my family, I've seen them take out their clippers and discreetly address an offending nail in the practice room, or backstage... but in the normal course of things, NO, do not groom yourself in public.