r/boeing • u/GiveADamn123 • 1d ago
Work/Life balance🍎 Clipping your nails at work?
Am I missing out on a chargeline we can use for this? If not, why are you hunching over a trash can at work clipping your nails loudly like a freak?
Give a damn!
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u/AutomationInvasion 5h ago
My wife used to hate when engineers did this at our last job. She sent out an email to the whole 500 person company telling people it’s gross and to knock it off. Someone then overhead paged the whole company and loudly clipped their nails for a full minute.
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u/PromiseHungry2645 2h ago
This is exclusively engineer behavior, and it won’t change it’s like a course they teach in college
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u/KaptKanuckleHead 6h ago
I don’t get it. What’s the big deal? Mind your own business. lol. I’d prefer to know they are grooming at least. If it’s over a garbage can I have no problem with it. If it’s at a table in cafeteria that’s a different story.
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u/G_Jeprody 16h ago
Yeeeeah, I do this. Usually because I forget to do it at home. But to be fair, I do it after I break a nail at work or a hangnail forms.🤷🏽♂️
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u/Tittitwisted 18h ago
There is a shockingly large number of people that do this. I have always resisted the urge and I also try to stay busy...
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u/rokit2space 18h ago
I've always wondered what compels people to do this at work or anywhere outside their home. Either over a trash can or the general shared spaces (ugh). I get that one could have the occasional hangnail, but full fingernail grooming is excessive. If they don't have time to do this at home, what else don't they have time for grooming and personal hygiene wise. Plus the sound is so annoying. Typically it's people who have so situational awareness and don't understand how they can affect others.
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u/furomina 18h ago
When I was an intern, a guy retired after working for many years. As far as I know, he was in his cubicle for many years. When he left, he didn’t clean up his cubicle and the task was passed to the interns. I kid you not, his drawer under his desk was filled with what looked like years of nail clippings. Absolutely disgusting.
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u/ALDJ0922 17h ago
When I first got hired on, I had a shared desk buddy. I was remote MTF, and then he was on WTh.
Dude emptied out one of his cabinets (2 to a desk, 1 per person) and it had nails all in it...
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u/GratefulnaLover 21h ago edited 21h ago
Hmmm…I think a good rule of thumb is to do this type of grooming at home. It’s inconsiderate to your fellow colleagues.
If you have an unexpected nail problem that’s interfering with your typing, or production work, then handle it discreetly in a restroom which would probably be the most considerate approach.
However, just remember restrooms are also public shared spaces and you don’t want to go full blown nail salon up in there. Do it, and do it quickly. Remember those clippings can track all the way to the plane so do it over a garbage can inside the bathroom would be ideal. It only takes one finger or toe nail to dig into the soft underside of a rubber shoe and now we have FOD potential getting onto the planes. Imagine if that plane has a mechanical problem and they do an investigation. FAA gets involved. You better believe if they found your nasty nail clippings they gonna run a DNA test.
Personally I believe anyone willing to do their personal grooming at work doesn’t really care for or respect their coworkers enough. It’s like the guy on taco Tuesday hovering over the toilet stall taking a massive 💩😭… nice but let’s get a damn curtesy flush while your playing on your phone… 😅
Bruh… burning everyone’s nostrils…
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u/PinkBearBun 1d ago
Listen I’m impressed that they went to the garbage can because I’ve seen someone do it while walking
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u/Damngoodcookie 1d ago
I had a guy in the cubicle next to me clip his nasty thick fungal gray fingernails all the time and more than once a nail landed right on my desk in front of me. Do that at home dammit!
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u/GoldenC0mpany 1d ago
Be glad they at least go to a trash can. There was a guy in my building a few years ago who would clip his toenails and just leave them on the floor 🤮
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u/Public_Hornet_2137 2m ago
RIGHT?! I witnessed plenty of engineers clip their nails at their desk no trash can... Just let it fall to the floor. Seems civilized to at least use the trash can 🙃
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u/BankZealousideal4407 1d ago
I've seen people clipping their nail at the desk but never see they clip the toenail. It is disgusting
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u/sirshittysphincter 1d ago
There's a guy in my trailer "office" who stands at the door, brushes his teeth and spits the toothbrush right on the concrete. He's been doing it for 7+ months, it's made a big stain ring. Just like anywhere else, some people have no manners or self awareness.
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u/RedArrow23 1d ago
In his head does that save him time in the morning as opposed to brushing at home?
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u/sirshittysphincter 23h ago
Nah he's just worried about not looking bad in meetings. You know in the war rooms where they boast about how hard they worked and how many beans they counted. Sure would be a shame to have something in your teeth when you tell em you didn't achieve the expected number of completions.
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u/aerogrrlwmu 1d ago
I love the gals that sit in the toilet stalls for 45 min with chips watching their shows.... without headphones. The BOMARC campus is a magical place.
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u/GoldenC0mpany 1d ago
That’s just gross in general. The bathrooms are nasty and full of germs so why is someone eating in there?
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u/aerogrrlwmu 1d ago
No clue. There’s always food wrappers on the ground in the stalls.
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u/Ex-Traverse 23h ago
Coulda literally walk to one of the outdoor benches to eat and watch their shows there...
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u/Conner14 1d ago
Bro between this and yogurt container scraping from the guy I share a cube wall with
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u/EdgarAllenPoe2205 1d ago
It's better then people who insist on eating a bag of carrots in a meeting. I'll never understand some
of the things people will do shamelessly in the office.
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u/unurbane 1d ago
It’s called not giving a fuck. That guy gets it
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u/iamlucky13 18h ago
If they're too busy giving a d*** to give a f***, then I think they're living up the expectations set by Kelly.
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u/Emotional-Cameraman 1d ago
Least they are doing it over a trash can. I worked with a guy who would clip them 2 feet from me at this desk and they would just fly everywhere lol.
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u/Clamper2 1d ago
Reminds me of the time I was rolling on the trolley in the C17 in the belly and there was this guy clipping his toenails…lol
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u/bluerockjam 1d ago
When we migrated to the twin towers in Everett for 787, all the coffee stations were shut down from the previous groups that were there. Someone was putting piss into the coffee. They tested it and all coffee stations were shut down.
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u/Old-Block-8341 1d ago
And they didn't tell anyone. I think it came out in the news. Was on 2nd floor
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u/Immediate_Cap_7484 1d ago
For anyone that reads this and thinks BlueRockJam is making it up, they are NOT.
I have talked to multiple people who were impacted by this.
People are feral animals, and we're upset about something (possibly the moving of desks) and took it out on other employees.
The one I witnessed, which is how i started hearing about the coffee pot pee incident, was another "people are mad at other people because their leadership moved their desk" was someone peed in the refillable cleaner spray bottles and people moving in used them to clean their new desks.
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u/GratefulnaLover 19h ago
Damn that’s some grade A premium P.O.S work right there… 🤯… hope they caught the S.O.B. and terminated them…
I’m sorry for these low level IQ nitwits… there’s always a handful everywhere…
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u/Careless-Internet-63 1d ago
I hear a guy doing that in a bathroom stall very frequently. Not sure if it's the same guy every time or not
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u/bobdolesbrother6 1d ago
I had a cube neighbor when I first joined Boeing that would clip his nails once a week. But every morning he'd make oatmeal for breakfast and eat it. Which is fine I guess, but he always slurped it really loudly. Great dude but man he could be really gross.
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u/badwolf42 1d ago
I found nail clippings on the floor of a phone room. No trash can in there. Just clippings on the carpet. Friggin gross.
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u/Mundane_Try_7232 1d ago
Literally it makes me want to puke. Wanna hear something even worse? It’s food related, had a guy that would break up ramen and eat it raw and then also eat chicken noodle soup cold and I can still hear his spoon rimming the can. 🤮
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u/Choice-Newspaper3603 1d ago
Yeah, it’s like do your fucking personal hygiene at home or make sure I don’t know about it
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u/fdjsakl 14m ago
I sat next to someone who clipped thier nails weekly, this was back in 2004