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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Working at Academy was overall okay, could have been better. - Customer Service Cashier Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

2.0
Feb 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Meet great friends. Decent discount at 20% Raise after your 3rd month. Raise when you move up a position.

Cons

Teamleads would overstep boundaries. Managers stood around telling team leads what was wrong. Managers talk about football rather than working like the rest of us. Point system is BS.

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Cons

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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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