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?

Context is important.
We had a situation where a manager wanted to discuss ‘the elephant in the room’ …. Meaning the repeated poor performance of a colleague that had resulted in some serious safety concerns.

She didn’t understand the term and he was taken into HR for calling her an elephant. Still makes me laugh and scratch my head in disbelief. 😂

Do you need to moisturise more? Are you worried by the presence of David Attenborough?.

Is this your autobiography, OP?

Were you pulling a Blue Peter presenter through your own excrement at the time?

The situation appears to be a large grey area - did he mean you are good at staying on tusk?

As the OP appears to have forgotten making a thread I think we can assume the manager wasn't referring to her stellar memory! 🐘

Do you have canckels?

It depends on the context as it's a well known fact elephants never forget.

Just for giving no context at all, YABU.

Is it because your ears are always flapping?

Oh yes of course. That completely slipped my mind. I wish my perimenopausal memory was as good as an elephant's. 🫣😂

It depends whether you are called Eleanor - because Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

And no further info from OP. Context is everything here.

I call my daughter an elephant (she’s tiny) purely due to the noise she makes coming down the stairs. There’s no need! Were you being noisy at the time?

Clearly he didn't mean that @feeIingaggrieved has the memory of an elephant as she's forgotten to come back and explain 😂

Absolutely useless post as there is no update at all. Waste of time everyone replying!!

Usually in a work context this would be a standard compliment regarding your good memory/knowledge base, which it sounds like it was?

Pointless post, if your not giving us context!

Are you always shovelling sticky buns in your gob?

24 hours and five pages of comments later, we are still waiting for context…. I’m actually starting to wonder if the people who run MN just post random fake stuff to get extra traffic.

To amuse us all while we wait for OP to return (if ever?), here's the infamous Blue Peter elephant causing havoc. 😆

As mentioned by several PPs.

I remember my grandma telling me grandad shouted 'here is your song' as Nellie the elephant was n the radio. Now I’m absolutely sure there was no violence involved but there might have been a bit of shouting

If. He said you are the size of an elephant that’s offensive. If he was referring to your memory it’s a clumsy compliment. If he randomly said it then he’s weird.

It’s depends! Elephants have great memories but if you you’re overweight he was referring to that!

Were you in the room or outside of the room when he said it.