AIBU to be annoyed at this woman brushing her hair in my office

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I manage a small nursery and the lockers are in my office due to space constructions.
Moving them is not an option. Bags have to go in because of safeguarding and mobile phones
One woman is obsessed with combing her hair and does it several times a day
I have never liked people combing hair or pitting on makeup on public. I just find it gross.
But is it me or should I ask her tostop or while iI come across as a weirdo?
I nearly asked her yesterday but part of me thought it was petty.
It does bother me though
Would it bother anyone else?

It's not about filth flying around. It's just that personal grooming is for bathrooms, or in the privacy of your own home or car. Basic manners, I thought.

Do you have space for a screen or room divider?
So you don't actually have to see them combing and putting on make up?

never ever brush your hair downstairs

Maybe this is my issue in life. I grew up in a bungalow.

RedToothBrush

If it's next to her locker space, then I don't see the problem. I need to give my hair a brush when I'm on breaks (albeit I do it within my own classroom before the students come back in) because my hair is a horrible, horrible creature that makes me look like Medusa if I don't brush it a few times during the day.

I'm quite surprised at some of the responses, I wouldn't think it was at all strange for anyone to brush/comb their hair anywhere (apart from over food of course). Obviously not ok to leave hair all over someone's desk either. I also don't see any issue with people putting on make up in public

I dislike people spraying loads of deodorant/perfume for everyone else to breathe in, and public wart-trimming is, of course, disgusting.

Isn't her hair tied back?

Regardless she should be on the floor looking after children not brushing her hair.

Juneybean Teachers and childcare workers are allowed to take breaks. We're allowed to pee and brush our hair occasionally.

No really? I never knew

my manager used to walk around the office brushing his teeth.

sorry OP but YABU. there's nothing weird about brushing your hair in public. If I needed to do it at work, I wouldn't even think about going in to the toilet to do it, rather than at my desk.

Obviously you didn't know, because your post was ridiculous.

Obviously I've been working in the wrong nurseries.

Obviously you have been.

Sorry but you are being a bit bonkers. What's gross about brushing hair and putting on makeup? I just don't see how that affects you.

Is reapplying lipstick gross, OP?

I meant in public of course ^^

Gross or not, the Queen does it, Gruntfuttock, so I reckon that gives us all licence to do the same.

It's not in public. YABU and petty.

I'm sat here genuinely confused. What's so gross about brushing hair? She's not in a kitchen or leaving hair all over your desk. It doesn't affect you in the slightest.

Am I the only one who suddenly feels the need to brush her hair?

Wow, it amazes me how intolerant other people are of others.

It's not in public - it's at HER locker, where she keeps her hairbrush and makeup. I don't brush my hair and rarely wear makeup but for those that do it's reasonable to do so in breaks at her locker, I'm amazed she's keeping herself looking smart and presentable, If I worked in a nursery I'd be a sweaty slobby mess...

It’s not in public, it’s in an office. Sounds like space is at a premium in your workplace, so probably hardly any room in the toilets either. If it’s a choice between people doing this sort of thing the odd time in and around the locker area (which happens to be in your office) and wetting yourself because people are being forced to carry out low-level personal care in the few toilets you have on-site, I know what I’d go for.

I think hair brushing should be done in private too.

A woman I used to know was SUCH a preener. I'd seen her admiring her reflection and doing that thing where you pull at your clothes to make them "hang better" or whatever people do it for, at length, using the glass window of a school classroom as a giant mirror. Gawd only knows what the occupants thought - I expect they were pissing themselves.

She had long blonde hair which was lovely I admit. One day I witnessed her taking a brush out of her bag and giving her hair a good ole brushing, not quite 100 strokes but not far off. It was one of those brushes that makes that loud cromp cromp sound as it brushes. As her hair really didn't need brushing it was quite fair to say that this was probably done to draw attention to herself and her lovely hair. Did I mention there were quite a lot of people there? This was in Church, in the quiet, contemplative bit before the Sunday communion service starts.

is it a locker room with a desk in it, or an office with lockers in it?
If the latter, then surely people should just come in quietly, use the lockers and go out again, using the loo for hair brushing, lipsticking etc.

There's something fundamentally off in going through your personal grooming routine in someone else's workspace, especially if it is not a communal office but just for one or two people.

Plus, who on earth needs to keep brushing their hair, anyway? Tie it back if necessary. Or do a Hilda Ogden.