brushing hair at desk in office - Yea or Nay?

[BarrelOfOtters]

AIBU to brush my hair at my desk or should I go to the loo to brush it. For context share office with one other person who I doubt cares. But is it bad etiquette? I have long hair.

Completely normal unless you're taking an hour doing 100s of brush strokes through your lengthy locks.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Amazed people think this is something you should be doing in private! Why!?

I couldn’t care less, but others can be weird about this sort of thing. Some don’t like people putting make up on in public. I cannot understand why. It isn’t noisy, smelly, dirty or intrusive. I assume it is snobbery.

I wouldn't get bothered by someone doing it at their desk but in the same way I am a little grossed by other people's hair over stuff. A relatives hair is often stuck to their child's (baby) sticky hands or all over their toys and as kids do it then goes in their mouths and makes me feel a bit grim. Whenever we leave their house we often have it on our belongings too.

What cloakroom??

I started a thread a few weeks ago about people bringing their dogs into my workplace, and how it was bothering me that other people's dogs approach me at my desk and set off my allergies. 75% of people thought I was being unreasonable.

I'm baffled that people think this is fine, but someone brushing their hair at their desk is so revolting!

No but here's the reason why. My hair is long and quite thick and I seem to shed it a fair amount- so I spend my life hoovering it up in our house. So I wouldn't expect our lovely cleaner to come into the office and have to start getting my flipping hair off the carpet. I always tie it up at work to keep it in one place.

I was wondering that too, but “grim” is applied to all kinds of innocuous things on MN.

Personal grooming should take place in private, or in a dedicated space such as a cloakroom.

I literally brush my hair anywhere except around food 😀

Maybe it isn't the same people posting?
People see the title and click the thread depending on what they are interested in reading about.
Dog people are more likely to click on a thread about whether dogs should be allowed at work or not so you were therefore more likely to get people answering your thread saying that they don't have a problem with dogs at work.
This thread is about brushing hair at the desk in the office so you'll get people reading the title who think, nah, that's revolting and coming on to post about it.

True!

I guess it's going to be skewed on any online forum so you won't really get an answer about what the people in your office actually think unless you ask them.

If you only share your office with one person and you don't think they care then it sounds like it's no big deal for you, OP.

It's only brushing hair not clipping toenails or waxing pubes. I'm fine with it, as PP says - anywhere except around food. Rather than than dogs in the office anyday!

Same. Loose hair makes me feel quite sick :(

I sometimes give it a quick brush with my mini hairbrush, to tidy up some strays, my hair is fine and gets messy quickly. I do do it when not many people around and busy with other things. But no, I don´t arrange a French chignon from scratch.

I don't care if anyone else does around me but I stopped doing it. I was sitting waiting for a tube in London and brushed my hair before work. The lady next to me tutted and brushed imaginary hairs off her shoulders.

Never brushed it around anyone out of the house again.

What I can't bear is seeing people's random wet hair strands stuck to the tiles and floor in the shower cubicles at the gym/swimming pool

I don't like seeing any personal grooming in public if I'm honest

No the mirror is there so you can check your disapproving glare is in top form.

i don't need a mirror to brush my hair.

eeeewww revolting.

only if you by yourself

the only grooming acceptable in public is hand lotion and lip mosturiser in my opinion

@BreakTea

errrr no. I'm not picking strands of my perfectly clean hair up from a public bathroom floor! Not for anyone. Sorry.

A quick brush, neatening flyaways, brushing a fringe = fine to me
Comprehensive grooming and preening, especially with long hair = not fine to me

Just like quickly applying some lipstick is fine, but putting on a full face of makeup in the middle of the office would be a bit unusual.

I have long hair and think if your hair is going to be so knotty and messy that you've got to thoroughly brush your hair at your desk multiple times a day, or that walking one room to another will make it messy again, then wearing long hair down to work is a silly decision.

I haven't ever been remotely bothered when I've seen people do this in the office!

What on earth is grim about brushing hair? Jeez there's some uptight people about

I worked with this awful women who would flounce in announcing she had been for a 'power walk' and proceed to roll on a bit of deodorant, spray Impulse up her blouse, brush her hair and then change out of her trainers.
I fucking hater her.