Staff 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 practically as though 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 basically impossible to get a proper break.

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 image, so I sent it directly. However, 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. (At first, I thought it was only needed for the leave application.) After I brought it in, the district manager immediately told me that because I had not yet been evaluated, 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 cities during the funeral period was already exhausting, and I still had to deal with this. At the time, I also had other family-related circumstances, so I resigned after working there for nearly two months. The district manager kept trying to emotionally manipulate me, saying that two employees at other stores in the same district had also resigned that month and that adding my resignation would leave two stores understaffed. When the emotional manipulation did not work, they started making sarcastic remarks.