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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Only good until you can find something better and leave - Sales Associate Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

2.0
Nov 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent employee discount, friendly co-workers, can be a fun place to work. Opportunity to learn about various products the store sells.

Cons

Low pay, few raises. team leads that treat the other employees poorly, scheduling personnel to close on one night only to have them come in and open the next morning, long hours being on your feet without being able to take a break (unless you are scheduled enough hours in the day to take a lunch/dinner break) disregard for personnel's time off requests, if you turn in a two week notice they will not give you any hours the last two weeks you are there - or if they do, they will really mess your schedule around the last two weeks you're there, like they are taking revenge on you for quitting. Point system for calling in sick, even if you have a doctors note due to illness or injury.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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