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

Toilet humour is a niche preference.
Mostly enjoyed by schoolboys and overgrown versions of the same.
Your comment wouldn’t offend me as such but it would make me think less of you.

@Toooldtopretend i was literally about to type the same thing before I saw your post! It does sound like a cringey David Brent thing to say. Like lots of people have said, your comment wasn’t funny and it was too soon to try out your Dad jokes on the new starter.

I think you’ve misjudged the banter type environment. Fart jokes don’t usually make grown ups in the workplace laugh.

Anyway, I reckon the blank face was simply because the joke was not funny. Move on.

Could have been a scene from The Office. Your colleague’s sense of humour may not match yours.

It doesn’t sound like a particularly hilarious joke and probably in a work context with someone you don’t really know would just make you sound odd.

She’ll probably get used to you in time and learn to smile politely when you are entertaining everyone in future.

YWBU and rude as you don’t know your colleague well enough to make jokes like that. A “joke” at someone’s expense is only funny if both parties are laughing. A face to face apology required

So true. This office atmosphere would make me cringe a bit.

I would not be offended. I love a good laugh. But unfunny and facile attempts at humour have me rolling my eyes. Then again, I am regularly surprised at the banal stuff on MN that has people crying with laughter, snorting out their tea through their nose, or waking their kids with uncontrolled guffaws.

Oh I am sure she understood your 'humour' OP but chose to ignore it because it's immature and unprofessional.

I don't understand it either. I live on eggs and they don't have any impact on me at all.

I’m an HR manager and that’s the sort of ‘joke’ that what end up on my desk as a complaint and potential disciplinary,

Maybe think before you open your gob

Can’t believe this is real. Nobody could be that rude.

i wouldnt understand the joke either tbh

Are you nine years old?

I think even my teenager would roll his eyes at that kind of "humour". Making jokes about other people's bodily functions is pretty juvenile. Doing it while they're eating/in relation to their food really isn't on.

So offended? No. Surprised to be on the receiving end of a joke usually reserved for primary school playgrounds? Sure.

You say it's this person's first week and you're already joking that her house smells of farts and commenting on her food? Christ alive she's probably wondering what she's let herself in for.

Its very rude to comment on people's choice of food. Also a ribbing culture can be a bullying culture, some people don't like constantly having you fend of remarks that you find funny but they find tedious at best, and uncomfortable at worse.

Your colleague did not have a sense of humour failure, you were childish and ignorant. I would hate to work with people like you and your silly mates. Very unprofessional.

You stink? Is that really going to put someone at ease?

Are you David Brent?

This

It wasn’t funny though. That’s not lighthearted ribbing, it’s just saying words.

I think you're the one offended because your 'hilarious' joke bombed. In order to make people laugh you have to be funny 🤷‍♀️

Bet the new woman wishes she had known this going in.

I bet new colleague is now wondering if her old job is still available.

Same. I would be handing my notice in!

I started a new job and was being shown around by my supervisor. Another colleague came along and my supervisor had a chat with her and then said "this is Blessed by the way" and the colleague said "Hello Blessed-by-the-way" and my supervisor cracked up and I just thought 'Nope I don't want to work here anymore!'

I literally thought she meant to mask the smell of the eggs. Never know them to cause flatulence.
So, yeah I wouldn't have got it and just thought you were being a bit odd.
It sounds like something an 8 year old boy would say.

I wouldn't be offended, but it wouldn't make me laugh or smile as it wasn't at all funny. More of an odd comment than a joke really.