My Coworker's Selflessness
A recent time I have experienced someone else demonstrating a random act of kindness was in my workplace. One time a customer came up to me and was asking for the manager of my department. She knew my manager’s name, so I suspected they must have known each other outside of the store or they really connected the last time this customer had shopped there. My prediction was right. The lady told me this long story about how my manager helped her find something in the store that wasn’t even related to our department. I can’t remember exactly what it was about or everything she said, but it left a lasting impression on me. Before she left, the customer gave me a little gift to pay my manager back for her kind deed. I guess she had promised that she would share a little talent with my manager in exchange for her selflessness. She left a little envelope with a little something that I will never know about. I have not known this manager for a year yet but have already started to like her a lot. I can tell that she cares about her employees not just as workers but also as people too. I am naturally a shy person, so the rare times when I can open up to people and someone tries to get to know me, I take advantage. I have felt comfortable enough around this manager and I feel that I can trust her. She is understanding when me or other workers have problems, and she definitely knows how to do her job. She will greet me every day when I walk in and ask how I’m doing. It may not seem like a big deal, but it is important to me when people of authority do this. I also see how she treats the other workers and I know there is kindness and compassion involved every day in her management position. I feel very secure and safe when I am in my workplace which is how we should feel around our coworkers who are in management.