Boss called me an elephant at work

[feeIingaggrieved]

My boss made a comment at work today and I can’t work out if I’m overreacting.

We were having a fairly normal conversation when, out of nowhere, he called me an elephant. I must have looked a bit taken aback because he quickly tried to laugh it off and said something along the lines of, “Oh, but elephants are the most intelligent creatures in the animal kingdom, they’re emotionally intelligent etc.”

A colleague who was there quickly changed the subject, and I just sort of let it go in the moment.

But the more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I feel. I’m struggling to see how comparing me to an elephant in front of colleagues is appropriate.

AIBU to be annoyed by this?

Do you work for peanuts?

Voted YABU because I have no idea in what context it was used.

🤣🤣

What’s the context? Were you taking about body size/food? Memory? A something you shouldn’t mention (elephant in the room)?
You being the ‘white elephant’?

Do you have grey, wrinkly skin?
A passion for peanuts?

An incredible memory?

Context is needed, but it doesn't sound great 😕

If you have a knack for remembering small details then it wasn't really out of nowhere. What exactly were you saying at the time?

Did you come crashing down the stairs and everyone heard you 5 minutes before you got there? I may have been referred to as a baby elephant before...

Well, are you??

My boss calls me a camel. I presume it’s because I don’t drink tea or coffee. I am not offended.
If it was because I had a humpy back and a furry face and spat at people, I would be offended.

Do you shit 12 to 15 times a day?

Context is key here. If you recalled some specific information, his comment is fine. If it was to comment on your dress size, not fine.

Were you feeling poorly, perhaps feeling like death and not wanting to be a burden to your boss and co workers, planning to slip quietly away from the herd at lunchtime and head off alone to a special place, where many others have gone before, to end your days amongst the bones of your ancestors?

Bad hangover?

If he just came out with the random word "elephant" in the middle of a sentence, he might have Tourettes?

Or had you just 'trumped'? (As we used to day at school,)

Elephants are great! If it's any consolation, I look like a gibbon.

Were you skipping around clapping your hands in an elephantine manner?

Is this you?

I actually spoke to the OP and, as she said it was literally out of nowhere:

Manager: Have you got the sales forecast for the next quarter?
OP: Yes, I've saved it in the usual folder
Manager: Thanks very much
OP: You're welcome. Have a nice weekend
Manager: You're an elephant

Couldn't be much clearer!

You should have come back quick with you dont have a big enough trunk to say the word.

Could he have Tourette's?

My nan used to call me "a fairy fucking elephant". 😂😂😂😂 I am heavy footed (and fat, though i was slim at the time so she was referring to me stomping up and down the stairs!) always been heavy footed!

I get called the ‘oracle’ or ‘font of all knowledge’ as I’ve been in my job a while and I know how each area works, which rooms, the people past and present, procedures etc. Was it used in the context?

Yes I wish the OP would come back.

We need to discuss the elephant in the room.

Was it because of your trunk?

we don’t need the OP, this is hilarious- do you paint your toe nails red and hide in cherry trees?