Employees at stores in the same district help one another.

The company keeps the number of store employees very low, so every day someone has to go support another branch in the same district. This means that almost every store employee has to be familiar with all the stores and counters in the district. Also, many things that could be resolved quickly are made unnecessarily complicated. In addition, during employees’ meal breaks, we have to keep an eye on the surveillance monitors while eating and help retrieve the clothes customers ask for, so it is practically impossible to get a proper rest.

Later, when I took bereavement leave because a family member passed away, the store manager asked me to take a photo of the obituary. I happened to have an electronic file, so I sent it directly, but the manager insisted that I provide a photo taken of the physical obituary. After taking the photo, I was also required to bring the physical obituary to the company—I initially thought it was only needed for the leave request. But after I brought it in, the district manager immediately told me that since I had not yet been evaluated, I was not eligible for the bereavement allowance and did not need to submit it, so I should take it home. It was not about the money, but traveling between cities during the funeral period was already exhausting, and I still had to deal with this. At the time, there were also other family-related factors, so I resigned after working there for nearly two months. The district manager continued to use emotional pressure on me, saying that two other stores in the same district had also had employees resign that month and that my resignation would leave two stores understaffed. When that emotional manipulation did not work, the manager began making sarcastic remarks.