Dig from colleague ?

[Everly107]

I work in a school office. Some children knocked the doors to be allowed to get through. They all knocked at once, it was a bit noisy. A Ta was in the reception area and said to me ‘’I thought that was your chair then!’’ About the noise. I was already sat down. Was it a dig? She thought it went down because I was sat on it?

Sounds like she just heard a loud noise and thought ‘wow that’s a loud noise from a chair’ and looked. Not a dig.

I don’t see how your chair could possibly sound like a lot of children knocking noisily on a door.

No I don’t.. so I don’t know

Exactly what I thought

It wouldn’t even cross my mind’s it might be a dig, what’s the rest of the story?

Is there a backstory with this colleague? Why would you think it’s a dig?

In what world could this be a dig? Is there a back story?

There must be a backstory, because at the moment that's a non event in my view.

Why didn't you ask hert to explain?

Unless the TA has never heard a group of children banging on a door, then she couldn't have possibly confused it with the sound of a chair. This is assuming you don't have some weird and wonderful sort of chair and that you don't regularly slam your chair into the floor. So yes, in all probability she was making a snide comment. I assume there's history to this.

No history really. I’m fairly new to the role.

Well it was certainly an odd remark. You can't confuse a herd of kids banging on a door (which she would surely be used to in her job) with a chair moving. Does your chair make a loud noise? Is the TA hard of hearing? Do you encounter her often?

Why would you think it was a dig? Do you think it was a comment on your size or weight?

Maybe she thought the chair had fallen over?

This sounds like something or nothing.
What do you think is going on? Dig about size or weight?
Is there more to this? In terms of your own sensitivity, workplace bullying or issues with this person?