Employees at stores in the same district help one another.

The company keeps the number of store employees extremely low, so every day someone has to go support another branch in the same district. It is almost as if 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 watch the monitors while eating and help retrieve clothes requested by customers, so it is impossible to get a proper rest.

Later, when I took bereavement leave due to a family member’s death, the store manager asked me to photograph the obituary. I happened to have an electronic copy, so I sent it directly, but they insisted that I bring a physical obituary and photograph it for them. 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). After I brought it in, the district manager directly told me that since I had not yet completed my assessment, I was not eligible for the bereavement allowance and did not need to bring it in, so I should take it home. It was not about the money, but traveling between cities during the funeral had already been 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 district manager also kept emotionally pressuring me, saying that two other stores in the same district had employees resign that month and that my resignation would leave two stores understaffed. When emotional manipulation did not work, they started making sarcastic remarks.