Yeah, that was part of our notes. We read your essay on banter. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what banter is, at least how the word is used here in America. Banter is not negging and it is not bullying.

Banter means the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks.

You might be teasing each other (gently) but you might also be exchanging teasing remarks about a movie, a neighbor, a ridiculous situation, a politician, work culture, children, pets, whatever's viral at the moment, what have you.

It's just light hearted back and forth in a teasing fashion.

Like, I'm at work right now and we're having tech difficulties so the tech guy and I were bantering about where we stash our bricks to deal with rogue tech and gouging our eyeballs out with pickle forks rather than seeing another error message which turned into a one upmanship about what sort of tortures we'd rather endure than fuss with aux codes anymore.

It was good fun. It was light hearted banter. Maybe a little flirty.

Not bullying.