To ask if my joke to new work colleague would have offended you?

[Abbeymum]

We are quite a small team and had a new staff member join this week. It’s a very friendly and jokey culture so we are always light heartedly ribbing each other.

Anyway - new colleague was eating a salad with two boiled eggs. We were chatting and she says that’s a usual weekday lunch for her. I replied that I bet she has stocked up on the air freshener for when she’s home.

Blank face…sense of humour failure on her part?

If OP is a ten year old boy I can see why they thought this was hilarious, otherwise, nope.

I replied that I bet she has stocked up on the air freshener for when she’s home.

This is the type of cringey shit my weirdo uncle knobhead would say at a family gathering.

It’s not funny because it’s “offensive” it’s not funny because it’s genuinely not funny.

bloody rude.

At least Ant and Dec can have a good laugh over eating eggs at lunch.

I'm amazed that you dont seem to understand that that type of joke should be reserved for people you know extremely well. In my opinion though, I'd never make a crass joke like that to anyone, it's school yard / builder's yard humour of the lowest kind.

Not offensive, just a shit joke.

I wouldn't have laughed because I wouldn't really have got it - it was only when I saw a reply about fart jokes that I realised what you'd meant..(and not like the actual smell of eggs, which didnt make sense because the eggs were gone!) do you have an intolerance or something? I've rarely eaten less than 2 eggs at a time, nor whoever I am eating with, and that's never been an issue?

It’s not funny, it’s not her sense of humour fail! If someone said that to me I’d just think they were a weirdo quite honestly. Did your other colleagues laugh? I can’t imagine any of my colleagues finding something like this funny.

As a pp said, apparently they make your farts smell like rotten eggs. OP must think that her farts smell of roses!

The hidden outrage over salad and eggs. If I said the same thing as the new worker I would feel embarrassed and laugh it off. I don't take myself seriously.

This

It's not just the fart joke, it's diet shaming and pointing fun a the victim

This sort of remark can be very triggering for those with eating disorders

Having said that eggs is quite an anti social foodstuff to eat in an office because of the smell from them, not farts per se. I love eggs but never take them to my office for lunch. Certainly not in my first week. That said your joke was still unfunny and unwelcoming. I like a bit of chat and a laugh at work but not piss taking and “bantz”

Shit, stupid, unfunny joke and totally inappropriate to make to a new colleague. You sound like one of those awful 'bantz' types.

This is thankfully not how digestion works.

I love boiled eggs, I can confirm there’s been no adverse impact to my bowel movement!

I don’t think making a poo related joke in the office with a new colleague was a good move. Sorry.

I wouldn’t have even realised it was a fart joke - it would have gone right over my head!

Not offended, but it's the wrong time and place I think. Toilet humour has to be between people who know each other and their sense of humour well. FWIW, eggs do give me bad wind but I wouldn't want to joke about it with a new colleague!

The OP hasn’t said they were necessarily eating at their desk - could be a completely separate kitchen/canteen area where people are at liberty to eat whatever they like for lunch.

"stocked up on air fresheners" is probably the shittest way of telling this joke anyway.

Some people just don’t find fart humour hunny - on the other hand I have no choice but to find some hilarity around it as I’ve two tweenage kids and anything remotely toilet humour is funny.
It’s maybe more that you don’t know her well enough to insinuate that she ‘phluffs’ at all.
I wouldn’t worry, keep on joking away and maybe her face will crack, if her ass doesn’t first😂

Maybe jokes are best reserved for friends, not work colleagues? Maybe it was not the joke itself, but familiarity? It usually irks people, even if a joke is funny.

There's a bit of difference between tweenage kids at home and grown women at work!

They do make your farts smell worse because they're high in sulphur

The joke itself isn’t the point.

Yes I know I've already posted that somewhere.