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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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One Of the Worst Jobs ever. - Anonymous employee Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

2.0
Dec 19, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people to work with on the associate level, the team leads are helpful when they are allowed to help.

Cons

Worst managers of all time. Most of the time 1 out of 4 managers there actually care about the people they work with other wise they are there to make their money and not get in trouble by corporate or the store director. I had one manager throw his employees under the bus so many times for his mistakes so that his team would take the blow and not him. also there is no point in store managers. Store director will just come by and tell you to re do it another way or do it his way. Also there is NO communication between director<managers<team leads<associates so nothing is set how the merchandise guide lines say. And don't even think about getting promoted. I started when the store opened i put everything in the store and have been there for close to 2 years, i have applied for team lead jobs number of times and every time they hire somebody outside of the store or somebody with no academy experience.

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Cons

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The easiest thing about job is the work itself.

Cons

The upper management is horrible on every level. They don’t care enough to even give job interviews, so you don’t know what to expect on your first day. Expect someone to not train you, but aggressively micromanage you and let you know what you do is wrong but not show how to do anything correctly. I’ve never seen a retail place operate so “by the books” but will make up rules on the spot when it’s most convenient for them. There is a severe lack of communication and care all around, partly from a lot of the managers being on different parts of the spectrum. The senior employees will also take out their home life problems out on you bc they’re jealous you got more credit card applications than them. Don’t work here unless you enjoy high school petty drama from ladies that have worked 30+ years in retail.

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