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Academy Sports + Outdoors

Is this your company?

8 years of my life and im exhausted - Anonymous employee Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
Jun 1, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Life long friends, 20% discount(which needs to go back to 25% or even 30%). The knowledge you learn from being around all the departments.

Cons

The company does not care about their employees. Only money. When you close at 10pm and then clean up till after midnight then having to come back the next day at 7 am is ridiculous. The hours need to go back to the way they were when I first started working there. Sun 10-7 and Mon-Sat 9-9. I basically eat, sleep, and go everywhere in my academy uniform and never have time for anything else. Our customers will understand if we cut the hours back because the only ones that come in the store from 9pm-10pm are thieves anyways.

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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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