Employees at stores in the same district help one another.

The company keeps staffing levels at its stores very low, so every day someone has to go support another branch in the same district. It is practically equivalent to requiring every store employee to be familiar with all the stores and counters in the district. In addition, many things that could be resolved quickly are made unnecessarily complicated. There is also the issue of 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 actually rest properly.

Later, when I took bereavement leave because a family member passed away, the store manager asked me to photograph the obituary. I happened to have an electronic image file, so I sent it directly. However, the manager insisted that I obtain 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 application). After I brought it in, the district manager immediately told me that since I had not yet completed my evaluation, I was not eligible for a bereavement allowance, so I did not need to submit it and should take it home. It was not about the money, but traveling between counties during the funeral was already exhausting, and I still had to deal with this. At the time, due to other family-related factors as well, I resigned after working there for nearly two months. The district manager continued to emotionally blackmail me, saying that two other stores in the same district had also had employees resign that month and that adding my resignation would leave two stores understaffed. When the emotional manipulation failed, the manager began making sarcastic remarks.