To ask if my joke to new work colleague would have offended you?

I’ve got to be honest, it’s not that funny a line for me but each to their own. I think you need to reflect a bit here. Your new colleague didn’t laugh and of course no one is obliged to laugh at things. You comment on her sense of humour fail when you have no idea at all about who she is. You describe your work culture as one where there’s light ribbing etc- all fine if works for you but an issue should not be made about your new colleague if they are not into that. Maybe she just didn’t find you funny. Maybe she thought you were overstepping the mark and being rude as you barely know her. Maybe she thought you were being critical of her lunch and she felt small. Maybe she has/had an eating disorder. Maybe she’s got stuff going on in her life that you just don’t have a clue about. So I suggest you reframe things and not expect people to immediately fall in line with how you behave and respond.

You need to grow up and act more professionally at work - I am cringing for you

Banter, otherwise known as making digs at people while you chuckle.

This is what I thought OP meant too.
I thought she was basically telling the new colleague that her lunch was smelly! Which isn’t very kind.

I’d never have guessed OP was implying her colleague would be farting later on. If beans were the food in question, yes.

Either way it wasn’t very nice OP.

No I wouldn’t say that, especially to a new staff member. It’s basically toilet humour, you barely know her. I wouldn’t find it funny and I think I have a pretty good soh.

I agree. And if it's her usual lunch she might feel she's been told her choice is unacceptable.

Yeah and this. Not only a crass comment but a confusing one as well.
Air freshener at home? What do you mean?

Do you not understand eggs?

I wouldn't have had a clue how to respond to you in her position.

I thought it was that boiled eggs can smell farty rather than make you fart so I would be wondering why I'd near air freshener at home & thinking that if the eggs smell to you, just say so.

Sounds like sense of humour fail on your part.

It isn't a good joke and it definitely isn't an invitation to join a friendly light hearted environment.

Agree. These 'jokey' cultures can become excluding, if they aren't already. Sooner or later a line will be crossed into a type of discrimination which is now thankfully illegal. Sounds like your group is ripe for training.

It’s a twatty thing to say OP. And it’s not funny.
I’d look at you blankly too 🤷🏻‍♀️

I would have given you a blank face too thinking my god, this grown woman is making fart jokes. You’ve just made yourself look a bit ridiculous.

Well, you slagged off her lunch and implied that it was a problem for you. She's new, feeling out of place, trying to fit in. She probably didn't know how to react, not knowing you very well.

Shit joke...a wee bit bullying as well. Not funny. Embarrassing for her.

You're a berk.

I would hate anyone making that joke to me especially a work colleague that I'd just met. Vile and disrespectful.

There are 226 replies to this thread, and a tiny handful of posters thought you were funny @Abbeymum

I think that tells you what you need to know, even if it isn't what you want to hear.

Puerile ‘joke’. Be more professional at work.

Sense of humor failure on your part, I'm afraid.

I'd just think you were a twit to be avoided in the future

but did you actually laugh or eye roll (perhaps that should that be egg roll 🙊) @Screamingabdabz?

It's rude to comment on people's food and also digestive systems, let alone both together.

Blank face was due to the shock that someone actually said that out loud to her.

Plus eggs in the office is a no no where I work, because they often stink the place down. You aren’t allowed any type of ‘smelly’ food.

Toilet humour actually turns my stomach. And if this is par for the course in your workplace she's probably rethinking her career choices

The people that jump to the "no sense of humour" are usually the ones who are offended that someone doesn't find them funny.

Why do people with poor humour always confuse thinking a joke is desperately unfunny with “being offended”?

People with immature senses of humour and bad social skills will reflexively say “you can’t take a joke” or “you’re too easily offended” if you don’t roar with laughter at some terrible joke.

I agree with these points. I love going to see comedians and laughing until I ache. I just didn't find the OP's "banter" funny at all.

I don’t think they make you flatulent but they definitely can add an aroma?

I’d have laughed too. I might have been a bit embarrassed too though- she’s new to the team!

Have you tried being interesting or original or funny?