Store employees in the same area 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 area. It is practically necessary for every store employee to be familiar with all the stores and counters in the area. Also, many things that could be resolved quickly are made unnecessarily complicated. In addition, during employees’ meal breaks, they have to keep an eye on the surveillance monitors while eating and help retrieve clothes requested by customers, so they cannot properly 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. However, the manager insisted that I bring a physical obituary and take a photo of it. After taking the photo, I was also required to bring the physical obituary to the company. (At first, I thought it was only needed for the leave request.) After I brought it in, the area manager immediately told me that because I had not yet undergone the assessment, I was not eligible for the bereavement allowance, so I did not need to submit it and 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. However, because of other family-related factors at the time, I resigned after working there for nearly two months. The area manager also kept emotionally blackmailing me, saying that two other stores in the same area had also had employees resign that month and that my resignation would leave two stores short-staffed. When the emotional blackmail did not work, the manager began making sarcastic remarks.