I am a guy, so some of the finer points of etiquette escape me. Thing I see others doing around the office sometimes seem fine and others make me wince. Below is a few things I find to be borderline, maybe someone can help me know whether I should steer clear of these?
1. Cutting your finger nails at your desk. I just heard one of my cube neighbors snipping away, I had heard this was a no-no. I remember finding clipping in a cube after someone had left the company and everyone thought that was gross.
2. Eating fish for lunch. Especially if you use the microwave to warm it up. Fish just doesn’t smell good in the office air. Most people hate you for doing microwave popcorn but that is because it makes them hungry fish just stinks.
3. Walking around with your shoes off. Women seem to be able to get away with this while men are looked at like pariah. Women will tell you that the shoes they wore are killing their feet, this is supposed to make it OK. If I told my co-workers the shoes I wore hurt my feet they would either laugh at me or state the obvious, get better shoes. Maybe it is just the price of being a man, sensible shoes must be our curse!