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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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There's good and bad - Sales Associate Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
Mar 5, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Discount. Working with other employees who don't slack off. If you get lucky and get your name drawn from a monthly employee compliments customer box and winning a gift card of $15 value (not sure if all stores did that). If you're full time the health benefits are good. Requesting time off within 2 weeks and you'll most likely get it unless it's some Holiday. Getting free meals in the employee break room on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sometimes on rare occasion an employee would bring a nice home baked meal or dessert for everyone to enjoy. If you enjoy the outdoors it is a fun place to work.

Cons

After working there for 5 years the discount went from 25% to 20%. Also I only got a 25 cent raise in 5+ years and I a hard worker. As always there is favoritism with the managers. Kiss butt and play nice if you want to be good with them. Not being able to move up in the company. The drama that some employees like to gossip about. Just don't expect to move up much or much hourly pay at that.

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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
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

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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