What's the company culture at Best Buy?

Every business has it's own style. What is the office environment and culture like at Best Buy?

Are people dressed in business casual, jeans and t-shirts, or full-on suits? Do folks get together for Friday happy hours and friendly get-togethers?

What is a typical day in the life of an employee at Best Buy?

Host said: Every business has it's own style. What is the office environment and culture like at Best Buy?

Are people dressed in business casual, jeans and t-shirts, or full-on suits? Do folks get together for Friday happy hours and friendly get-togethers?

What is a typical day in the life of an employee at Best Buy?

If you work at HQ, be prepared for lots of meetings. They don't how experienced you are or how good you are. If you don't do things the manager's way (even though you've been taught at different way at HQ), you're screwed!

Host said: Every business has it's own style. What is the office environment and culture like at Best Buy?

Are people dressed in business casual, jeans and t-shirts, or full-on suits? Do folks get together for Friday happy hours and friendly get-togethers?

What is a typical day in the life of an employee at Best Buy?

If you work at HQ, be prepared for lots of meetings. They don't care how experienced you are or how good you are. If you don't do things the manager's way (even though you've been taught at different way at HQ), you're screwed!

Anon in Lakeville, Minnesota said: If you work at HQ, be prepared for lots of meetings. They don't care how experienced you are or how good you are. If you don't do things the manager's way (even though you've been taught at different way at HQ), you're screwed!

That is because it is a different company. You can't expect every company to have the same procedures or the same style. What do you think a manager is for? The reason you were "screwed" was most likely due to the fact that you probably didn't understand those facts. One can tell by the way you mention "no matter how good you are." That arrogant attitude probably was very evident to the company even more than it is here.

Basically, you blew it. Try to fit in with the next company you work for and you will fair better I believe.

Of course you could continue to take the ball across the goal line riding it there on a unicycle if you like but you are not going to get very many quarterbacks to agree with your method.

Charlie in Bethlehem, Georgia said: That is because it is a different company. You can't expect every company to have the same procedures or the same style. What do you think a manager is for? The reason you were "screwed" was most likely due to the fact that you probably didn't understand those facts. One can tell by the way you mention "no matter how good you are." That arrogant attitude probably was very evident to the company even more than it is here.

Basically, you blew it. Try to fit in with the next company you work for and you will fair better I believe.

Of course you could continue to take the ball across the goal line riding it there on a unicycle if you like but you are not going to get very many quarterbacks to agree with your method.

Charlie,

Thanks for the good laugh. I think I've been around enough to know that every company has its own style. The issue was not me fitting in because I was fitting in quite well with my work group and as far as being called arrogant...WOW! That's a first! I've always been told I'm was a team player. I guess you can't be confident without being arrogant in your world!

Anon in Minneapolis, Minnesota said: as far as being called arrogant...WOW! That's a first! I've always been told I'm was a team player. I guess you can't be confident without being arrogant in your world!

The reference to arrogant was your implication that you must have felt like management had given you one direction and you thought because of "how good you are" and how much experience you have that you didn't need to follow that direction. You backed up that implication when you stated that one must "do things the manager's way" even if you have been taught a different way elsewhere. That is arrogance.

It is not being a team player when your attitude is that you know a better way of doing things and resent having to do things the way the team leader desires. Confidence is having the attitude that you have made a good decision in your choice of employers and that you need not fear following the direction of the management of that company because you already know they are right for you and that you are a part of that same idea.

Worrying about having to go to a lot of meetings is the complete opposite of confidence. Seeing meetings in any sort of negative light is being very against the team.

You are as transparent as clear glass. It is quite obvious you are not a team player and have little adaptability to fit into new environments. Definitely not management material by any stretch of the imagination.

As a minority, I can truly say that some of the managers and most coworkers are friendly and fun to chill with. It's just a few of the managers in the higher up rank are just so "fake" or being a jerk, you can tell that they pretend you don't exist in their eyes. Unless you show up late, or make any tiny mistake, then they'll write you up or terminate you. And, you have a few customers who make sure your day to be like hell too.
Of course, every store is different. If you are optimistic and careful enough, Best Buy is a really fun place to work for.