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 almost as if every store employee has 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 watch the security cameras while eating and help retrieve the clothes customers want, so it is basically 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 copy, so I sent it directly. However, 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. (At first, I thought it was only needed for the leave request.) After I brought it in, the area manager immediately said that because I had not yet completed my performance evaluation, I was not eligible for bereavement assistance, 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 kept emotionally blackmailing me, saying that two other stores in the same area had also had employees resign that month and that adding my resignation would leave two stores understaffed. When the emotional blackmail did not work, the manager started making sarcastic remarks.