Strange things you do to join the "team"

Ok, so I started a new job as of last week and I figure I will accept whatever invitation is offered by my new coworkers...

Tomorrow, I am going two-stepping in a country bar.

What has been the most bizarre thing you did at a new workplace in order to join in with the in crowd?

We convinced this one chick that every new person at our company has to go two-stepping when they start!

Hey! two-stepping is kinda fun. I learned in college. You'll have a great time Sky!

When I started at my current job everyone took me out to lunch at a nice Indian place. That was pretty cool. They also taught me at that lunch, to make fun of our supervisor and I have been ever since. In other jobs it was mostly that people would go out for dinner/drinks and they would struggle to find someplace that I (then under 21) could go to. In Alaska we'd all (as in everyone on staff that afternoon) go hiking every friday after work and then gorge on Mexican food. It was awesome and the most fun work related activity I ever did. We frequently went camping as a group too. This was at a vet clinic so everyone had several pups to bring along. Loads of good memories.

So, two-stepping done. I had a blast watching all the people take themselves so seriously while I laughed my ass off at my apparent lack of skill, and the inability of my partner to count to four like other people.

Went to a bar in Scottsdale Arizona where people down drinks one after another becasue they can't think of anything else to do with their life.

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Went to a bar in Scottsdale Arizona where people down drinks one after another becasue they can't think of anything else to do with their life.

there are bars in many cities like that. strange, but true.

Drinking scotch.

One of the working group's I'm on for my job, get's togther once a year and in the evenings they all go back to someone's room to drink scotch. They were nice, but I wasn't really accepted as one of the team until I went back for scotch too.

Could have been worse - at least it didn't involved dancing but I hate scotch. Although, three meetings later, it's starting to grow on me.

13 weeks at Boot Camp, also known as Officer Candidate School - Pensacola Florida. Had my head shaved, was yelled at from 5am to 10pm daily by Marine Corps Drill Instructors, did loads of physical training and classroom study -- the most exhausting yet rewarding experiences of my life. Is relatively similar in many ways to the first half of "Full Metal Jacket" -- up to the part where Private Pyle shoots himself. The reward was 10 fun-filled years flying for the Navy and seeing a good bit of the world.