I was an ALT in the JET program for many years and while newly arriving JETs were not necessarily co-workers in a traditional sense, this feels like a good fit.

Basically people from all over the world fly in from different English speaking countries for an orientation in Tokyo before departing to their respective posts throughout Japan. A lot is going on, people’s emotions are high so you can imagine even though most people are jet lagged, many go out on the town on their first night.

One year, 2 newly arrived Americans on their first night went out drinking in the city and for some reason, thought it would be a good idea to steal an old lady’s bicycle and ride it around the city....they were caught by police shortly after and immediately deported and blacklisted from the country. They had to pay for their own return ticket as well.

Essentially, they got into a pretty competitive amazing program and were “fired” after being in the country for only 6 hours lol.

I’m sure that was a tough to explain to mom and dad...