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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Typical retail: low pay, you're expendable, management is variable but often fickle. - Footwear Clerk Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

2.0
Jul 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Indoors, cool coworkers, occasional opportunity for overtime.

Cons

Pay is typical low-end retail. Alright for a student, part time thing. Not terribly professional managers, some are cool and do a good job because that's how the individual is, but the corporate culture doesn't give them good guidance on how to treat the employees with respect, so there are abusive, disrespectful managers, and the general policies are very strict regarding attendance and floor behavior, making it very easy to just dispose of people rather than keeping them around long enough to justify raises. It seems they try to keep costs down by turning over employees rather than paying more.

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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice people to work with, customers are generally good people.

Cons

Not enough opportunities for more hours.

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1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The customers there were wonderful to talk to

Cons

Had to quit due to team leads aggressive attitude towards me. Also favoritism issues. I can tell they didn't like me since day 1. Today they came to me rudely about mistakes I made instead of doing it professionally. I haven't been there for long and I was still learning. I made a lot of improvements which I was really happy about, but was still learning. As much as I liked working there, the team lead was very rude/unprofessional towards me and it was so bad to the point I had to leave. The same team lead followed me outside and said "good" that I was leaving (in front of customers too). I was improving a lot in the position, I want to hear constructive criticism, but not like this. I was hoping to grow with the store and the company but unfortunately its not meant to be. This could've been 100% been prevented if only they would came to me professionally about this and I would be more than happy to fix any mistakes and do better in the future. But if this is how they treat their coworkers I do not wish to be a part of that toxic culture and headspace. Do better.

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