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

OP, are you one of those people that say “I’m funny, me”.

I agree. When did ‘offended’ enter the discussion?

I dont recall reading that anyone would be offended, just that they wouldn't find it funny. I must have missed the offended posts.

Like many people, toilet "humour" simply does not amuse me.

It's called taking the pee out of people who think the OPs comment was a serious issue, and the HR manager who said it would be a disciplinary offence - it wasn't complicated.

Friendly and joking culture with light hearted ribbing shorthand for able to get away with bullying. Grow up and behave like an adult

Well I wouldn’t think it was either funny or correct. Dunno maybe eggs make you need air freshener but I’ve never had a problem with them. I’d just think you were a bit odd. 🤷‍♀️

I'd have given you the same blank look tbf.

Insinuating a new colleague will suffer with smelly flatulence isn't really going to make them feel at home on their first day in post. Grim 'joke' and I usually love a bit of banter. You just got this one wrong!

If jokes like that offends them. I wouldn't want to see what makes them angry.

The fact you said it to a new member of staff is even worse, I bet she felt great going home after you took the piss and embarrassed her in front of strangers in her new job, I’d have thought you a right nasty fucking bully.

I would’ve been confused, its only two eggs, it’s not like she had half a dozen in there. The joke was cringe, not offensive, just cringe. She got it, she just didn’t find it funny enough to laugh.

Toilet humour with a new colleague is inappropriate. I would steer clear of you if I were her. But I also think bringing eggs into the office is anti-social.

I wouldn’t be offended- I would just be cringing horribly because it’s a terrible joke!

Me too.

I'm baffled as to why you think she was offended though?

Well yes, not finding something funny doesn't equal finding it offensive does it?

Extremely unprofessional to make fart jokes. You are not an 8 year old. You are a work colleague.
Honestly, if I was your new colleague I’d start to second guess whether I should stay at that job, because that is NOT a work culture I want to be in.

I would even find that remark gross from friends or family.

And the joke’s on you, because you basically announced that you have digestion problems.

Cut the crap, stop ridiculing your colleagues. I think you might find others don’t enjoy the stupid remarks as much as you think everyone is enjoying them. And apologise for your gross remark.

I'm baffled as to why you think she was offended though? Like others on the thread I would have been v confused, eggs don't equal passing gas in my mind which I assume is what you were trying to say? Maybe they make you fart but I don't think that's a general thing tbh, if it were beans I'd have gotten what you are trying to say but it isn't actually funny. Maybe direct these silly lines to the people in the office that will humour you and just have normal conversation with those that dont

I'm in my 60s and wouldn't have laughed so 🤷‍♀️

I'd have smiled awkwardly out of socially conditioned politeness and thought the OP a dullard.

Yes, you do sound like a childish poopy bum to me.

Sorry I don’t really know. I came on here to say that I would find it funny, read some of the comments and then saw why others would find it offensive. Why do you ask?

I didn't think of farts, I thought that boiled eggs just have a smell during boiling, when you open a sandwich or a box, they smell. I didn't think of fart because well, they don't give me any so I would have laughed and assumed you meant that it's a smelly food and that my house will smell of eggs because I cook them everyday. I loathe egg sandwich smell on trains and at work canteens.

Which is rude as fuck. At least her colleagues know what she’s like now.

I’d be bored senseless if those kinds of comments were made on a daily basis. It’s exhausting having to feign amusement at that kind of lowest common denominator crap.

Doesn’t sound like a very professional workplace.

That's why the op asked whether she had air freshener at home 🤭

"we are always light heartedly ribbing each other"

That's a recipe for disaster.

You were rude.

Work colleague doesn’t share a home, bed and bathroom with her and share a familiarity like her husband, ridiculous comparison.