It's not worth it - Supervisor Uniqlo Employee Review

You may love Japanese culture, or anime, or like UNIQLO's clothes. But run far away. UNIQLO is an extremely toxic work culture and is the definition of bureaucracy. Most upper level management (area managers and above) are expats from Japan or another Asian country and these are the only employees the company cares about. The type of people who get promoted into store management aren't actually good managers, they're just good at conforming to UNIQLO's culture and good at taking orders, that's all the company cares about. The results? Inexperienced managers who create a toxic work environment because of how stressed they are. One of the biggest selling features of a job at UNIQLO is they advertise quarterly assessments which could result in a promotion every 3 months but it's all malarkey. The managers will just simply give enough points for promotions and raises to whoever they're friends with. Favoritism is rampant at UNIQLO. Being a Supervisor (so part management, part associate) it was sad to see how unhappy the associates were at work and I was powerless to do anything about it. They also expect you to dedicate your life to work. Japanese work culture has people living to work rather than working to live. It's not worth it. The high pay and good benefits aren't worth being trapped in a toxic job. You either conform to UNIQLO's toxic culture, or you become an outsider.