The Present Day
Culture! Company Culture! Words that mean different things to different people. Culture shock, did someone say?
Yes, it is an important and rather imperative factor that defines a company. So the question is, does a new employee adjust to the cross-cultural symbiosis of a company that he has recently joined? Yes, it is possible that the person can adapt to the new environment. But what if he does not like the culture? Detests every minute that he spends in that company? Or even worse, has to drag himself every morning to go to work.
What if this were to happen to me?
Acceptance! Is it actually about me accepting and adapting to the new surroundings or is it about me being accepted by my new colleagues? People I have only recently been acquainted with? Would I wish that I was with my previous colleagues; folks I have been with for years. People who are no more colleagues but friends. Friends, I can share everything with; my joys and sorrows; my highs and lows; my relationships and break ups! And here, I am stuck with people I can't connect with. People who seem to get along famously but a group where I stick out like a sore thumb.
Questions! Doubts! Did I make the right decision? Was it stupid on my part to have accepted this offer without giving it much thought? Trepidation, remorse, anxiety pangs.... I want to try, I tell myself. I have made a decision and I want to try and be here. Be with people I will have difficulty adjusting to. But can I? Will I succeed? I don't know....
But tell me, is it so bad? My team ain't bad. The people around ain't that bad either. But do they accept me?
Has life come a full circle? Life when I joined my first company. I was with strangers then too. But they are friends today. Friends for Life. Was it easy then? I don't know. Rather, I can't remember.
Should I need to try harder? Possibly yes. But why just me? Why can't they take the first step? I don't know. I am confused.
Life will never be the same again. Life ain't great right now.
Forward to the year 2010
I am happy. Work's gratifying. It's fun to go to work. I have made friends. People whose sight I thought I detested.
Life is tough; not a bed of roses (cliched). But I chose the road less taken. I chose to make a difference. I chose to try and I succeeded. I chose to stay here and fight it out.
I made the right decision. Or did I? Wink wink...
Disclaimer - Characters and incidents, if any appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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