To think colleagues joke was NOT acceptable?

[LaurenkI]

My team has a meeting every Monday (virtual) and there’s always chat at the start about weekends etc. One of my colleagues said he’s worrying because his holiday plans for the year include already booked trips to Cyprus and Dubai. Another colleague then said ‘any chance you can book a trip to France next’ and he got a few laughs.

I have family in France, as does another colleague I’m aware of. Is it me or is this type of ‘joke’ really inappropriate given the current climate?

This is why they don't trust us with the laughing emoji isn't it? 😂

It's the norm now that someone will take offence at whatever is said, best not to speak to each other in case someone gets offended. You are bu

Being from the West Midlands, anyone from the Black Country would have substituted Birmingham in the joke; anyone from Birmingham would have said Dudley or Walsall (with the inevitable “it’ll cause at least £10’s worth of damage” follow up). A West Brom fan would have said Wolverhampton and vice versa. I’m sure you could replicate this anywhere in the country which has a long-standing rivalry with its neighbours, as we have as a nation with France. Christ’s sake. Some people on here would have had an issue during the war with the chamber pots printed with Hitler’s face in the bottom.

This is a wind up isn’t it?

I agree with poster. The way it was said implies “bomb France next”. If it was meant as “try nearer home next time for your holiday” I think they would have worded it so.
Either way, it’s in bad taste.

With all due respect OP. Get a grip.
It was a very mild joke. YOU made it about YOUR family in france. They did not. You CHOSE to take offence to a joke that haf nothing to do with you, and you tacked on intent against yourself and your family. Honestly, its a bit "main character syndrome".

And you’ll be doing all this in work hours I guess? Seriously, is it important enough to waste everyone’s time, especially as you have ‘form’ for this?

No wonder people are afraid to display a sense of humour these days! 🙄

Oh my word. Honestly. This is ridiculous, and to raise it to your manager. Honestly, you want to spend a day in my office. You would last an hour tops!

God, glad I don’t work with you

You just don’t like whoever made that comment coz it’s harmless .

Oh my God your retirement is on the horizon?
I assumed from your thread that you were some 20 something snowflake with zero resilience and zero real life experience!
Jeez 😣
Cop on to yourself for God's sake woman.

Just curious. Is your first name Karen?

I wouldnt even link this ,how self absorbed are you to even think that a colleague can't make a a pretty naff joke without it offending you ?

The mental gymnastics you've performed here in order to take offence is ridiculous.

Your being unreasonable. I've got loads of french friends having lived there for a while and they would have joked the same but in reverse. It's just banter. Mainly the good old fashioned British humour we are known for. We have centuries of rivalry between the two of us. If we can't joke about it what can we do? 🤷

Arf! I love that Betjeman poem.

The OP will not be happy to learn that I cracked a smile.

He is saying that he wants France bombed, so the first colleague should book a holiday there.

Before you throw your colleague under the bus, you should talk to your boss about your feelings about it. Ask your boss if you are overreacting. Because your boss might think you're being a little bit oversensitive and reading too deep into it, and few people want people like that on their team.
Do you really want to be the employee that everybody has to shut up around?
Do you like the idea of walking into a room and everybody stops talking because they're afraid of offending you?
That's where you're heading.

you sound like an absolute PITA to work with, get a grip

It's hard not to form an impression that had the OP not been there, the joke would not have been made .....

You sound like an absolute pita to work with. Save your righteous indignation for a real offence.

You are definitely just looking for something to be offended about 🙄

Your colleagues must love you!

Hope your manager has some sense today than to indulge your complaint.
Complete overreaction.