ribbing

It's a fun ribbing when it's in private, sure.

Your peers, and even younger managers might give you a light-hearted ribbing.

Old-timers might give you a ribbing that's jokey on the surface, but actually a bit disapproving.

Upvoting you despite your inability to take a bit of good-natured ribbing

Once friendship is established, especially among younger males from Gen X and Y, jokes/ribbing/dozens are all but inevitable - because that's what friends do.

In the case of the Rodin Wheels, injection molding cannot produce a seamless hollow wheel with hook bead rim, internal ribbing and variable wall thickness where needed to counter stress.

One genre of that ribbing would be that she's angling to get an American husband, which -- as we've established -- is not generally something a proper Japanese woman wants said about her.

It's a great ribbing of the mentality of the giant tech companies who promise to make the world a better place--"Hooli is making the world a better place through minimal messaging transport layers.

So perhaps like ribbing people in a tongue-in-cheek fashion for using the "wrong" text editor?I think that sort of thing is fine and generally accepted, provided you don't become hurtful or vicious with it.

About the last point; there has only been one group that can have gentle ribbing between coworkers that wasn't an excuse to be mean, and it was a lot of fun, but ultimately I know that I changed the list of people that I would want to invite into that environment because it can be off-putting for people and other people would be tempted to shift the dynamic for the worst.