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To have found this unfunny and said so?

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Wherearetheoddsocks · 07/11/2018 19:54

I do a job that is busy and requires a lot of concentration and attention to detail at times.

Don't want to say what incase colleagues are on here etc.

I was working on a task when a colleague came and deliberately distracted me as a joke.

Imagine i was decorating a cake precisely, this person came up behind me and was saying to look over there.

I carried on with what I was doing and zoned out because I wasn't sure that he was talking to me and I was concentrating hard. He proceeded to say "look, over there" a couple more times, then tapped me on the shoulder and pointed and said "look what is that". Completely oblivious to the joke, I looked. He pretended he was going to eat the cake but ended up knocking it over, meaning I had to start again.

This is something that has happened a number of times (not actually knocking it over), by the 20th time the joke gets old and the distraction is very unwelcome.

Anyhow, I just looked blankly at this guy and said that's not funny, he seemed to take offence that I didn't fall over laughing at his joke.

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Flyaway78 · 07/11/2018 21:46

So annoying!

He shouldn’t be poking you or touching you in any way. I would tell HR.

AFistfulofDolores1 · 07/11/2018 21:46

He doesn't find it funny because you caught him at his game - which is sabotage masquerading as a joke. (And it really isn't a joke; it's sadistic.)

I'd counter with, "Do you enjoy doing this? It seems like you do. Which is a pity, because I'd have better things to do with my time."

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