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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Path-Majestic on 2023-09-21 20:42:53.

I (22F) am a recent college graduate from a university that is very well known thanks to a certain character in the show “The Office.” I’m used to being teased about it, but anything related to Andy Bernard just gets on my last nerve. After four years of the SAME joke, I just see it as so uncreative and irritating that people perceive all of us like that, but it’s largely been a non-issue.

I just started working at this law firm as a legal assistant and my firm has a couple other recent college graduates. “Ally” just started a few weeks ago and is very proud of the fact that she graduated from Harvard (wears her college sweatshirts to work, has a crimson/white color theme at her desk, recounts college stories at lunch, etc.) Ever since she saw a little graduation pennant that I have pinned on my desk, she keeps teasing me with “worst Ivy” jokes and keeps calling me “Andy” even though that’s not my name. I’ve asked her several times to cut it out. Today was our monthly firm lunch where everyone introduced themselves because we had a few new people. After I gave my generic elevator pitch and said where I graduated from, she leaned over and whispered “ever heard of it?” After this, I got up and excused myself from the room because I was getting upset and she was getting on my last nerve. When Ally asked me later why I had left, I said that her “Harvard superiority complex” was showing and I didn’t want to be around her elitist nastiness. Ever since then, she hasn’t spoken to me and hasn’t made any more jokes.

However, my other coworker said that I should have been the bigger person and that she wasn’t trying to be nasty and to just let her be proud of where she graduated from. Now I’m wondering if I went too far. AITA?