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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Good at first then HORRIBLE - Costodian Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

1.0
Jul 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

401k,good insurance, discount, the little get togethers where we eat

Cons

Unfair management. We the employees are the face of the company, yet management get the bonuses and good pay raises. Lack of communication. How u expect to have a good store when management can't even come together. Lack of care for employees. I am scheduled to close 4 to 5 days out of a week. I ride the bus. On Sundays the bus drop Me off 2 miles from the store yet they still want Me to come walking in the heat or cold to work. ONE time I Had to walk 13 miles (4hrs) from work cause no ONE couldn't take Me home. I called in the next day cause there was no way I was getting up at 4:30a to b there at 7. Then I ended up in the hospital with servere dehydration and high blood sugar. Not once did anyone from management called to see how I was doing. Yet they knew I was a diabetic and couldn't b out in the heat. I come back and ask for Sundays off and they say the store needs someone on Sunday but yet again I just got out of the hospital twice for being out in the heat. The payraises are a joke. Whats 25 cents? No bonuses for associates. How fair is it we do all the work and all we might get is a stupid 10dollar gift card. The turnover rate is the worst I ever seen.

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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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