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

It's the kind of remark I'd expect from someone who has a gob which runs away with them, but justifies it as banter, and likes telling it as it is.

An egg salad is hardly Cool Hand Luke league.

I’d be updating my CV !!

Such a telling comment.

very few on this thread have said they find it offensive, just not funny. but that doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humour- it's just a different one.

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

i certainly don't find it offensive, just not funny. But the reaction of the op would tell me that they are likely a bit of a mean girl type who doesn't like it when someone doesn't find their jokes funny.

YABU- it's rude to make comments about what someone is eating. Whether it's a remark about the food itself, how much or how often they eat it, or what it looks or smells like, keep your opinions to yourself and don't embarrass someone over their lunch.

Why do people feel they have a right to do this? Why did you?

The reason is your “joke” was not funny.

Yep. Definitely a tumbleweed moment. I’m experiencing second hand embarrassment for OP.

Exactly. I am not offended by it but its an embarrassingly shit "joke".

It reminds me of a comedian standing on a stage telling these terrible jokes whilst the audience is silent and tumbleweed blows through the room.

People arent offended, they just dont find you as hilariously witty as you think you are.

Oh god, imagine getting a new job and then finding out it's a "bants" type place. I'd be so dissappointed. I really hope it was made clear to her before she accepted the job.

Hopefully she'll just think you're a bit of a dick and not take it seriously and change her lunch habits, now you've suggested she / it smells.

Not really very funny tbh am not surprised she showed a blank face

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.

No, not offended. Just think your joke is shit and it’s made me question whether you are as decent and smart as I thought you were.

I'm another one who can just imagine Ricky Gervais delivering this line in The Office , then doing that awkward stupid grin he does whilst waiting for the hilarity of his joke to hit. . then saying 'you'll get used to us , it's just banter , we're all mad here'

It’s not you op. It’s a well known comedy trope “they’re egg sandwiches aren’t they Mrs Doyle?”

Some fuckers are so po-faced. It’s pointless trying to be anything less than some tea-with-the-vicar robot in workplaces now.

I would just think it was weird.

You really need to work on your wit.

Fart jokes are ‘kids’ jokes.

Sounds like very basic childlike humour. I’d not have found it funny because it’s not, it’s just childish humour.

Exactly this ^^

It's very childish and unfunny.

I enjoy a bit of banter at work, but it needs to be genuinely funny, and this isn't. It's something a seven year might find funny.

And of course, not offensive. Just stupid and unfunny.

Offensive? No.

Embarrassingly unfunny for anyone who isn't a 10 year old boy? Yes.

hopefully some of the 51 are your team members, the other 575 respondents to your poll, don't agree. (currently 626)

Food (boiled eggs) for thought @Abbeymum?

I agree. You have to go gently with new people until they've settled in and feel accepted. I always remind the teens at the group I run that they need to rein in the friendly teasing when there's someone new - not just what's directed at the newbie, but with how they talk to each other.

Otherwise the new person may feel it isn't a welcoming place. They have to experience people being nice to each other first, so they understand that the teasing is in that context.

8nwas just wondering that myself, never got the farts after eggs

I sense a lack of self reflection here, so I wonder why you've posted the question at all. You've obviously assumed there's nothing wrong with your office 'banter' despite all the comments to the contrary here.

Yes, possibly this. Not everyone finds ‘personal comments banter’ funny. Had a woman like this in my last job and thank god I didn’t work with her (although had the misfortune of sitting near her).

Be careful because you don’t know this person and it could be misconstrued as bullying if the comments go on.

It’s a big thing on MN to find eggs very smelly. Like you I’ve never noticed that eggs smell particularly bad. Different smells are stronger for some people, I can’t smell a particular amine which apparently reeks of rotten fish to everyone else and a colleague couldn’t smell hydrogen sulphide which is eggy and very unpleasant to most people. It’s probably sensitivity to hydrogen sulphide that makes eggs smell horrible to people.

I think she just had no idea what you were talking about.