Am I being over sensitive? With what my colleague said?

[Applecherry9]

I work in a school. Got there this morning and hair etc was a bit wet from walking in. My colleague said ‘bit soggy applecherry9?’ Then I said yeah etc. she said soggy doggy, in sort of like a playful voice. She has one of those voices that’s like she’s talking to children all the time if that makes sense. Aibu to think she was aiming this at me and saying I’m a dog/ugly?

Would you really be offended if some random colleague called you a weird, twee name anyway?

Have there been any other comments? If it's just a one off, I'd shrug and move on.

I do have a colleague who makes snide remarks every day so if she'd said it I would know it wasn't incidental or innocent.

She does a creepy child voice as well. She's both mad and bad, and a bully. Sadly managers say HR won't take it seriously as its her version against mine and its always in the way she says things. Anyway, that's my woes, not yours.

Be glad you don't have to work with the one I've got to!

Aibu to think she was aiming this at me and saying I’m a dog/ugly

I don’t just think you are over sensitive to think this - I think you are indulging in a bizarre paranoid fantasy.

Definitely over sensitive!!!

It's definitely the working in a school thing 🤪 I think she's just forgotten who she is talking to and that you're not one of the kids. I'm sure no harm meant and no underlying meaning at all

She sounds like the type of teacher, or someone who works with kids, who doesn’t know how to switch off and talks to everyone in “child mode”.

I don’t think for a minute she intended it as an insult.

You are being daft. I think it sounds quite affectionate.

You are being oversensitive and she sounds annoying.

Could be worse I got screamed at by an SLT who had a vomiting child in the corridor screaming at me "Get a grown up quickly!"

If she needed you can say big sneezer ebeneezer. She might think you're comparing her to Scrooge 🤣🤣

Sneezes not needed !

It’s like saying someone looks like a drowned rat… it could be seen as horrible if it wasn’t a common phrase! I think she said it without thinking, it’s probs a phrase she used at
home, ‘gosh you’re a soggy doggy!’

This is such a weird thing to be offended by.

I sometimes call my child a silly billy, I hope they don’t think they’re a goat!!

I really wouldn’t take offence. It’s probably something she says to her dog. The number of times I’ve almost accidentally said to a colleague “oooh biiiiig stretch” or “THAT’S a big yawn”. I’ve also inadvertently used the “tch tch tch” (don’t touch that food!!) noise on my partner instead of the cats on occasion…

giggling at the thought of someone calling someone else a 'wet bitch' 🤣🤣🤣

Do you think it's part that as it's something silly you would say to kids in the school, it's just slipped out? Like when you work in a shop and then you go shopping and you say to the server "is that everything?" because you're so used to saying it in that situation?

But yes, you are definitely over thinking this and i even think i am now.

In a kids voice I'd say she was being playful and a bit silly. Probably something she says at home and just feels comfortable around you so didn't think.

If it was sneery and under her breath then she was trying to be mean but its a pretty crap insult for an adult so I'd be surprised.

You do sound overly sensitive. If someone called you a silly sausage would you think they're calling you a pig?

My kids have a board game called Soggy Doggy. Could it have been a reference to that? I wouldn't take it as an insult. It's easy to forget you're taking to an adult and accidentally slip into 'child mode' when you work with kids.

You should have responded with “Silly Doggy” to her in the same tone she used.

Only because I’m petty as fuck.

And hindsight is a wonderful thing 😂

That would never have entered my mind!
Soggy Doggy - maybe she has a long haired dog and wet human hair looks similar?

I once had an old Major say in the rain ''I say! you look AWFULLY like your dog!''

{dog in pic} I just found it funny - I do think people look like their dogs.

She was being innocently ‘silly’
You are overthinking and over sensitive.

It's just a lighthearted ribbing. Like,

Mucky pup
Cheeky monkey
Bird brain

You aren't being called a dog, monkey, or bird.

I have ''Click clicked'' people out of the way as if they were a horse sometimes- {Like when one wants to a horse to step aside in the stable}.

I try hard not to do it now.

‘Wet bitch’ has me crying 😂😂😂