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The 20-to-30-somethings in my department seem way too invested in hanging out with each other outside of work. They have a groupchat, sure, but they also do monthly birthday lunches, organize games of racketball on a near-monthly basis, have get-togethers at their houses, etc. The ones I don't work with are weirdly friendly to me in that gushing American sort of way, which weirds me the fuck out considering I don't know them. One lady messaged me on the company IM service asking if I would like to be added to their groupchat (on another, non-company-controlled app), and then proceeded to try to have a conversation with me over IM in the middle of a workday. I have never met this person and I don't think I ever will in a work-related context. Is this normal for corporate? It's very distracting when someone keeps popping by my cubicle to introduce themselves (especially when they ambush me with a gaggle of new hires), I get an email about some group lunch thing I don't care about, someone IMs me inane shit, or even when they're all in the office and I can hear them yucking it up from several rows away. I'm literally just here to learn skills, do my job, and collect a paycheck, and it pisses me off that people I don't even work with are trying to get in the way of that in the name of friendliness or whatever the fuck just because I'm roughly their age.