Someone's first week
A new person joining an existing team. Everyone else has shared jokes and history; they have none of it.
- When did you last speak first to someone in a lift?
- When did you last teach somebody a shortcut, and did it work?
- What could you teach me to do properly in the next ten minutes?
- How exactly do you make your coffee or tea in the morning?
- What's a shortcut you worked out yourself that nobody taught you?
- Which chore do you enjoy, and what's your method?
- Do I seem like someone who sings in the car? Why or why not?
- Guess how the person on your right spends a free Sunday morning, and why.
- When did you last read the manual before pressing the button?
- When did you last fix something at home with the wrong tool?
- When did you last kill a houseplant?
- When did you last apologise to a machine?
- When did you last leave a party early, and what did you say?
- When did you last get a haircut you had to live with?
- When did you last send a message to the wrong chat window?
- When did you last stop to watch a stranger do their job well?
- When did you last see your name spelled wrong on something official?
- What kitchen rule do you break every single time you cook?
- What did work teach you that your friends now complain about?
- What hobby do you own all the equipment for and never do?
- What do you eat constantly and would never serve to a guest?
- What did you teach yourself wrong and still use anyway?
- What part of your work do you enjoy that others find boring?
- What do you leave until the last minute and still get right?
- What cable are you keeping for a device you no longer own?
- What did every other child find easy that you found impossible?
- What do you refuse to automate, and how long does it take?
- What lives in your bag that you have never once needed?
- What will you finish this year that you said that about last year?
- What did you hate at first and now defend to other people?
- What kind of message do you rewrite five times before sending?
- What have you never read that everyone assumes you have?
- What tradition do you complain about and would miss if it stopped?
- What small detail do you fix that nobody else ever notices?
- What do you refuse to lend, and who ruined it for everyone?
- What did you assume on your first day that turned out wrong?
- What can you fix that most people pay someone else to fix?
- What could you teach us to do properly in ten minutes?
- What's the best way to spend three hours in your hometown?
- What's in your fridge right now that you could turn into dinner?
- What do you make that people always ask you to bring?
- What do you know well enough to shout at the television about?
- What's a skill from an old job you never get to use here?
- What did you spend an entire weekend learning and never use again?
- What have you repaired at home using nothing but a video?
- What's the first thing beginners get wrong at something you do well?
- What can you do with your hands that you learned by watching someone?
- What software do you know so well that watching others use it hurts?
- What's a word your family uses that nobody else would understand?
- Do I seem like someone who makes the bed every morning? Why?
- Guess what I do first when I get home, and why you think so.
- Guess what the person on your left does on a Saturday morning, and why.
- Guess which of us could talk their way out of a parking ticket. Why?
- Guess who here still owns a toy from childhood, and why them?
- Guess what's just outside my camera frame, and why you think that.
- Guess my first job, and what makes you say that.
- Guess what I would bring to a potluck, and why you expect that.
- Do I seem like someone who talks to strangers on trains? Why?
- Guess what I wanted to be at ten years old, and why.
- Guess who here would reach the karaoke microphone first, and why them?
- Do I seem like someone who keeps a houseplant alive? Why or why not?
- Guess what's in my bag that nobody would expect, and why.