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TIFU by basically joking to my boss that I am suicidal

Just for context, I’m the youngest person (23M) in my department and recently have been getting comfortable telling my repressed jokes to my coworkers after a few years of trying to be professional.

Also I do very much have the will to live lol I am just full of Gen Z humor and have minimal situational awareness.

It started with me joking that I was the DEI hire as i’m mixed and the only one who can remotely speak Spanish in the entire bank. That was well received.

I then joked about the names of our customers and how bad they must of had it in high school, Even better received.

One day I walk into the break room to pillage the fridge and see my boss standing around waiting for his meal in the microwave. I habitually go towards the fridge and look for left over food silently walking past him.

“What’cha looking for?”, He asks me to break the awkward silence.

I respond, “Oh you know, the will to live that’s all” I said with literally zero hesitation.

Instantly I felt a wave of “oh shit” come over me as I just realized this isn’t a coworker who’s closed in age to find that as funny as I would.

He simply looks at me wide eyed and chuckles a bit and goes “oh well that’s no good haha”

Not once after that day has he attempted to engage in conversation with me unless it is directly work related and now I feel mortified anytime I’m about to privately engage with my boss.

TLDR: I joked about not wanting to live to my boss and now it’s made it extremely uncomfortable to even be in proximity of him.

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