weekend fun with coworkers?
so... I've started flying to another city each week for work, and my team lead travels in as well. We get along quite well so far and spend a lot of time together working, at work happy hours, and not working- sharing cabs, eating together, sitting in the airport, etc. While I think we both have good friendly intentions, I wonder where to draw the line- I don't want to make innocent things awkward, but I don't want to accidentally annoy or embarass him either (like, we coordinate our hotels and flights so we can share a car- do I assume we'll drive/eat together or do I casually ask every time? would it be weird to suggest going to a movie some night as a reward for finishing our work? should I expect to always walk together in the airport or do we go our separate ways? how early/late can I call/text with non-urgent work thoughts/questions?).
In particular, he asked me along to spend an upcoming weekend together with another (male) teammate in a nearby city just for fun- would it be outrageously inappropriate or just funny office gossip to wear a corset cat-costume when going out saturday night on halloween? (I work in a mostly-male career so I'm used to being the one woman in a group of men; I don't mind being talked/joked/fantasized about or kindly turning down tentative advances, but I DO mind coworkers being offended or judging me negatively) And should it be strictly stay-out-of-each-other's room or is it ok if we natually end up together to continue a conversation/watch TV/etc? Oh, and should I graciously accept the guys' instinctive opened doors and help carrying things, or should I demand to be treated like one of the guys?
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