Essay On A Community

A community is a group of people who are like minded and share the same values and beliefs. Being part of a community gives us a sense of belonging to something greater than us. That’s all most of us ask for, to belong to something. Many people would assume that the community build around a workplace would involve terrible management with little to no care about the employees or, the employees sitting around hardly doing their jobs just ranting about customers. But in the community, I work in that is not true. I work at Best Buy and what I get out of being part of a workplace community is far greater than what it is thought to be.

The community at Best Buy consists of its employees, which I would be part of them. There are a variety of jobs

Mine would be my job title. I work at customer service. My responsibilities are to be friendly and to help the customers as best of my abilities. Also, depending on my shift, I am responsible in making sure everything is on or off and the beginning and end of the day. For instance, if I am on the opening shift I am responsible for turning on everything that needs to be turned on, like the cashier lights, the TV’s, etc. I also have to write down on a note who is working at the front end of the store today and what their shifts are along with assigning registers according to the schedule. But this responsibility varies according to what position we hold. In return for my responsibilities I am rewarded with pay.

There is somewhat of a government to this community and that would be the managers and supervisors. They overlook everything and make sure the store is running smoothly with no problems. They are the ones that we have to go to if a problem were to occur or with any issues above our control. The final decision, in most cases are up to the

Time is just one thing that I have to give up in order to be part of this community. The only downside to spending my time invested in in this community would be that I work every weekend which is not too bad I just like to go out on weekends with my family. I work those days because it is the busiest and the store gets more Hispanic population coming in. Especially on Sundays around 1pm. That is because many Hispanics are getting out of church and are wanting to spend some time in town and go shipping for a bit. I would know because I do that as well. Sometimes when my shifts do not start until church is over, I go to church myself and see many people from mass at Best Buy either making purchases or paying of their credit card bills. Most times I will see people who attended mass earlier in the store and they come up to me and talk to