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Me and my mostly professional male friends (30s/40s) will bounce around texts every now and then about the habits of our co-workers and just generally making fun of people who are socially unaware. Once I brought up the fact that a male co-worker of mine in his late 50s used to bust out his fingernail clippers in his office WHILE TALKING TO YOU and just clip clip clip away over the wastebasket. Nearly all of my buddies chimed in with similar stories of mostly male, older co-workers who openly cut their fingernails in their office.
Seeing as how four or five random guys spread out all over the US just happened to have worked with guys with such disgusting habits, I started wondering.............is this normal office behavior? If we all worked with someone who does this regularly, surely this must be at least semi-pervasive throughout offices and cubes in the US.
Have you worked with someone who has done or currently does this? And are we alone in thinking this is 100% inappropriate behavior for an office setting? I would say this is only slightly above trimming one's nose-hair openly at your cube.
I wouldn't go as far as calling it disgusting. Toenails would be approaching disgusting (but even then, it would be more amusing than disgusting). And I definitely wouldn't say it is slightly above trimming nose hair.
But I agree that it's inappropriate. I would also have guessed that it was abnormal but seeing as how so many of your co-workers observed this to be true where they work, maybe it's not so abnormal.
I do have a co-worker who told me she used to share an office with a guy who did some weird things and then one day she found him cutting his toenails and that's where she drew the line.
The last company I worked at my boss cut his nails in meetings. I personally didn't care, but totally understand how others could find it off-putting. I have seen it frequently in the workplace, so it isn't really out of the ordinary. I would rather have that than picking one's nose, passing gas in meetings, body odor, excessive use of perfume, smelly food in the office, and many other human activities. Also, I would rather have that than a jerk to deal with...my boss was a great guy, so maybe that's why I didn't care.
My boss has the habit of having his finger either in his ear or his nose when he is sitting in his office (door open). I don't think he realizes it. He sometimes does it when you talk to him. I guess his office is his comfort zone and he does whatever he wants - because he can.
I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer handy and disinfect everything he touched when he comes into my office.
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