"Strongly dislike", it's not like any rational person waits in the wings with mallet to abuse someone for being new. :) If you do face a culture of blame (like playing an online game) your office culture probably is a bad fit. Never work with assholes. It's never worth it.

Study their workflow and design process well. Learn DVCS (git, hg) very well and the best practices that come with it (especially branching).

Once you have branching down, you can create your own branches without affecting their work.

Never use --force.

That makes is basically impossible for you to be a headache.

Use local databases only for testing/dev. Make sure you have a development server ready that's ok to wipe at will (so other devs don't cry about it).