I Made Some Friends During Training at Nagarro

Hello friends,

Nagarro is an IT services-based company that hires a lot of freshers.

Now, freshers often treat their first job just like their college experience. I don't know about others, but I started treating Nagarro like a college social experience.

Everyone who was with me in training, in my team, or in my account—I started considering them as friends.

But in the corporate world, there are no real friends—only allies. And I learned this the hard way, through a painful experience.

I had started talking nicely to almost everyone and began treating everyone as a friend.

Whatever I had on my mind, I would share with others. And in this way, I ended up making a few good friends.

Then one day, I made a mistake and said some things to a friend—things I definitely shouldn’t have said, especially in a corporate setup.

As expected, we had a fight, and the echoes of that fight reached other friends as well. The office environment became very negative for me.

I felt like I should quit this job and look for another one. But I didn’t have strong enough skills.

I had been working in the company for 6-8 months, but hadn’t learned any solid skills that would get me job offers in the market.

I did manage to crack one interview at another company, but they were hiring me again as a fresher. If I had accepted that, my 6-8 months of work experience would have gone to waste.

That wouldn’t have been good for my long-term career, so I decided to continue suffering at Nagarro.

I had considered that friend a close one. I thought my mistake would be seen as just immaturity and wouldn’t be blown out of proportion.

But in corporate life, people often find their own lives boring—and any kind of drama becomes their chai-time gossip. So the matter spread to many people, and that really hurt me.

At the time, my old friends—from school and college—were busy with their own lives. I tried sharing with them too, but the emotional damage wasn’t resolved.

That incident hurt and damaged me so much that afterward, I became very practical in life and completely stopped considering anyone as a friend.

Since then, I’ve put everyone in the “acquaintance” bucket and never let anyone get close again.

That day, and today—it’s been almost 8-9 years, but I still haven’t been able to consider anyone a close friend.

Everyone is a friend, but only the “fun-times” kind.