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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Okay - Anonymous employee Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
Apr 26, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule. Work-life balance is encouraged. Movement to other departments is encouraged. The company would rather you move to another area than lose you as an employee.

Cons

The "traditional" academy employees are still too busy cc'ing everyone on emails, they fail to figure out the problem, decide on a solution, and move on. There are a lot of people with egos. Not much respect given to upper management, nor respect given to employees for growth. HR doesn't tend to follow the company handbook. When approached, they tend to blow you off. Movement is encouraged, but very political. There is no recognition for hard work.

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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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