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

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Abbeymum · 25/10/2025 07:58

We are quite a small team and had a new staff member join this week. It’s a very friendly and jokey culture so we are always light heartedly ribbing each other.

Anyway - new colleague was eating a salad with two boiled eggs. We were chatting and she says that’s a usual weekday lunch for her. I replied that I bet she has stocked up on the air freshener for when she’s home.

Blank face…sense of humour failure on her part?

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SleepQuest33 · 25/10/2025 13:28

I love boiled eggs, I can confirm there’s been no adverse impact to my bowel movement!

I don’t think making a poo related joke in the office with a new colleague was a good move. Sorry.

Locutus2000 · 25/10/2025 13:26

ConnieHeart · 25/10/2025 13:17

As a pp said, apparently they make your farts smell like rotten eggs. OP must think that her farts smell of roses!

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This is thankfully not how digestion works.

Frugalgal · 25/10/2025 13:23

Abbeymum · 25/10/2025 07:58

We are quite a small team and had a new staff member join this week. It’s a very friendly and jokey culture so we are always light heartedly ribbing each other.

Anyway - new colleague was eating a salad with two boiled eggs. We were chatting and she says that’s a usual weekday lunch for her. I replied that I bet she has stocked up on the air freshener for when she’s home.

Blank face…sense of humour failure on her part?

Shit, stupid, unfunny joke and totally inappropriate to make to a new colleague. You sound like one of those awful 'bantz' types.

Alpacajigsaw · 25/10/2025 13:23

Having said that eggs is quite an anti social foodstuff to eat in an office because of the smell from them, not farts per se. I love eggs but never take them to my office for lunch. Certainly not in my first week. That said your joke was still unfunny and unwelcoming. I like a bit of chat and a laugh at work but not piss taking and “bantz”

Gingernaut · 25/10/2025 13:19

sexlesshusbandwoes · 25/10/2025 11:40

A disciplinary for a fart joke! Fml Mumsnet is another world at times

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It's not just the fart joke, it's diet shaming and pointing fun a the victim

This sort of remark can be very triggering for those with eating disorders

Alpacajigsaw · 25/10/2025 13:18

Nickyknackered · 25/10/2025 08:00

I mean, not offended but I wouldn't have laughed as it's not funny. I have a sense of humour but i guess it's a bit more sophisticated than toilet jokes.

This

Falseknock · 25/10/2025 13:18

ConnieHeart · 25/10/2025 12:57

Except this isn't what she said and she didn't just come out with 'this is all I eat for lunch, salad & 2 eggs''. Her & the OP were talking about lunch & she said this is a usual lunch for her

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The hidden outrage over salad and eggs. If I said the same thing as the new worker I would feel embarrassed and laugh it off. I don't take myself seriously.

ConnieHeart · 25/10/2025 13:17

Redpeach · 25/10/2025 12:51

So the joke is that eggs make you fart? Do they? Fart jokes really not funny

As a pp said, apparently they make your farts smell like rotten eggs. OP must think that her farts smell of roses!

Adelle79360 · 25/10/2025 13:13

It’s not funny, it’s not her sense of humour fail! If someone said that to me I’d just think they were a weirdo quite honestly. Did your other colleagues laugh? I can’t imagine any of my colleagues finding something like this funny.

MCF86 · 25/10/2025 13:12

I wouldn't have laughed because I wouldn't really have got it - it was only when I saw a reply about fart jokes that I realised what you'd meant..(and not like the actual smell of eggs, which didnt make sense because the eggs were gone!) do you have an intolerance or something? I've rarely eaten less than 2 eggs at a time, nor whoever I am eating with, and that's never been an issue?

TheSwarm · 25/10/2025 13:10

Not offensive, just a shit joke.

SpigTheFish · 25/10/2025 13:07

I'm amazed that you dont seem to understand that that type of joke should be reserved for people you know extremely well. In my opinion though, I'd never make a crass joke like that to anyone, it's school yard / builder's yard humour of the lowest kind.

Falseknock · 25/10/2025 13:06

Redpeach · 25/10/2025 12:51

So the joke is that eggs make you fart? Do they? Fart jokes really not funny

At least Ant and Dec can have a good laugh over eating eggs at lunch.

Mistyglade · 25/10/2025 13:06

bloody rude.

CherrieTomaties · 25/10/2025 13:06

I replied that I bet she has stocked up on the air freshener for when she’s home.

This is the type of cringey shit my weirdo uncle knobhead would say at a family gathering.

It’s not funny because it’s “offensive” it’s not funny because it’s genuinely not funny.

Knittedfairies2 · 25/10/2025 13:04

If OP is a ten year old boy I can see why they thought this was hilarious, otherwise, nope.

Amauve · 25/10/2025 13:03

Abbeymum · 25/10/2025 08:02

It’s a good job you don’t work with us, then!

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I imagine a lot of us are grateful we don't work with you, OP. It sounds shit.

I hate people who comment negatively on what others eat. And the bantz in your office sounds dense as pig shit.

CaptainMyCaptain · 25/10/2025 13:03

Notmyreality · 25/10/2025 07:59

The blank face is probably because it’s a shit joke and not funny, not because she was offended. She was probably embarrassed for you.

This. I wouldn't be offended but I wouldn't think it was funny.

Maaate · 25/10/2025 13:01

dogteefs · 25/10/2025 09:57

Same here.

I mean what next OP? - are you going to write BOOBS on a calculator and pass it round the office whilst giggling?

Pathetic.

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He he he you said boobs he he

To ask if my joke to new work colleague would have offended you?
Thepeopleversuswork · 25/10/2025 13:01

@Waitfortheguinness

thinking you may have problem with work based interactions…..

I have no problem with work based interactions thanks. I am a senior manager at a company and have worked for 30 years and have many friends who I have met through work.

Not enjoying puerile behaviour and being able to spot an office bully at 50 paces isn’t a me problem.

outerspacepotato · 25/10/2025 12:59

I can see her thought bubble now.

Oh no, my new colleagues think fart jokes are funny. Sigh.

ConnieHeart · 25/10/2025 12:59

user793847984375948 · 25/10/2025 12:45

10 eggs a week?!!?!?😥😳

Is there something wrong with that? 2 a day isn't much & they're full of goodness

GreenCandleWax · 25/10/2025 12:59

It is the sort of "banter" that most women would not do. I think OP is a man. It just sounds like old fashioned "We're just one happy family here" uurgh! And putting someone new subtly in their place. 🙄

ConnieHeart · 25/10/2025 12:57

Falseknock · 25/10/2025 12:51

It's a stupid thing come out with this is all I eat for lunch salad and two eggs. I dread what she eats for dinner. What does she want people to say to her. Did she really expect people to take her seriously?

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Except this isn't what she said and she didn't just come out with 'this is all I eat for lunch, salad & 2 eggs''. Her & the OP were talking about lunch & she said this is a usual lunch for her

MyDeftDuck · 25/10/2025 12:57

WTF! How old are you OP? Seven?