To find the phrase "welcome to my world" bloody annoying?

[roarfeckingroar]

It's always said in a smug or martyrish way. For example, at work earlier: colleague A "last week was tough, I was here late every day because of X project", colleague B: "ha, welcome to my world".

Argh! Yes because working late is your thing, you're the only one who has ever worked late.

I find it more annoying than the bastard love child of "I'll send you an invite" and "would/should of".

AIBU?

It's not nearly as clever as the speaker intends.

I don't know anyone who uses it, but it sounds like patronising shite.

Yanbu- it drives me mad. And diminishes what, e.g. colleague A was saying

It's just their way of saying "me too". I don't see the harm.

Ofhorse- that's exactly it: it diminishes the hard work/stress whatever is the other person. It's like saying "yeah, I do that all the time, you're nothing special".

Just annoying.

I say it to my teens. A lot. To annoy them. It works.

Yanbu. A couple of my colleagues say it and it pisses me off no end! I also hate "welcome to parenting"

Checks self.

I think it's usually meant in a self-deprecating, empathetic way, like "I understand, my life is that crap every day," sort of thing. That's how I take it anyway.

I'm not sure that particular phrase bothers me in itself but it does annoy me when I'm offloading (moaning) and the other person has to prove that they're actually far worse off. I know my life's not terrible but let me have a moment to feel sorry for myself without turning it into a competition.

Me: I've had a sore throat all day
DH: Me too and a banging headache

Me: DS was up 17 times in the night
Friend: Try it when you have two of them getting up every night.

Potential - I also hate that. Why do people do it?

It annoys people because it makes them realise they're banging on about something, generally in a poor-me this has never happened to anyone ever except ME way, and have been made to see, that actually, it happens to other people too.

That's why it's annoying. Because it's always said to self-obsessed whiners.

Dixie I love that you've categorised red velvet cupcakes as a meal! That's my kind of dinner.

I can't agree ThenLater. It's just someone making the conversation about them.

YANBU, used by the sort of jizzpenguin that arrives back off of holiday to 9787 emails and tells the whole world. It boils my piss too OP. Martyr's...

JizzPenguin. Brilliant

Yy to making the conversation about them! I'm thinking in the context of work colleagues in particular here too... rather, one patronising colleague in particular!!