I sit in an open workplace environment. My colleague has a habit of clipping their fingernails at their desk. Firstly, the sound is irritating. Secondly, I’m fully expecting a nail clip to fling over the workstation divider and land on my desk (or on my head!). For me, clipping nails is a process that should happen at home, in private, in the bathroom. Not in the office.

I’m not the only one who can hear the clip clip clip. It freaks out everyone else around us. I’m getting to the point where I think they might even start to clip their toenails! How do I handle this disgusting behaviour?

Everyone should feel at ease when they step into their place of work. But there are limits.Credit: John Shakespeare

This is one of those classic Work Therapy questions where the office behaviour is annoying enough to get on people’s nerves, but not so egregious that it warrants a dressing down. In fact, it sounds like you’re wrestling with what so many readers wrestle with: the question of how to bring an irritation to an end without........

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