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Average - Receiving Associate Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
Aug 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Easy work, fun coworkers, ok pay, learned a lot about how to set up shelves and run a store "behind the scenes", very informative, easy to learn

Cons

Managers not really willing to work with employees, people acting like they're better than you, and the main con was that as a temporary employee, they led me to believe I had a 90-day period to prove myself. After almost exactly 30 days I was called in and told that they were cutting some temporary employees since they'd hired to many and I had been chosen to be cut. So literally I learned it was my last day on my last day with no advance warning at all. Glad I didn't have bills to pay.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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