Took me a while and couple of psychotherapy sessions to get rid of the eary feeling of hearing someone behind you trimming nails in the office environment.
I have heard that a friend of mine saw someone trimming his foot finger nails in the office. Excluding occupational health and safety, this is the worst thing that can happen to a developer while trying to debug through a complicated code. Person sitting in his chair, got one of the feet on the chair while the sock and the shoe sitting on the floor smelly, and trimming nicely… Yuk.
It is times like this that you understand the importance of an ipod and a good pair of noise cancelling ear phones. Grrrrrrrrrrr…
Another story from one of my friends when we were working in England-Newcastle back in 2001. There was guy also trimming the nails and one day my friend found one of those nails in his tea cup. In the events like this we usualy shot the guy twice from knees as a reminder but in Newcastle that would be considered gay so we didn’t.
Now, as soon as I get that image out of my mind, I will get back to coding.
