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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Terrible place to work for - Customer Service Cashier Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

1.0
Feb 21, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

the discount is rather good. 25% for most items 15% for all other items. People there are nice and you meet people who are just like you. Team Leads most times get you and support you.

Cons

Managers do not care about its employees the hours are random every week. Managers totally think that you are completely replaceable the raises are worthless, been there two years and barely made over a dollar in raises. the pay is terrible. the hours are only good in the summer and Christmas times. the return policy allows for customers to walk all over you. managers most times do not see your input as worth anything. managers use curse words and racist words and without any witness around its your word versus their word so they always win. they have a point system where it tracks when your late and when you call in. if your sick and call into work because you cant come in and you have a doctors note you can still get 4 points. after 24 points you get fired.

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5.0
Mar 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome team and coworkers, nice pay, store discount 😁

Cons

4am starting I don't have a car that's all I can think of really... I like the work

1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The customers there were wonderful to talk to

Cons

Had to quit due to team leads aggressive attitude towards me. Also favoritism issues. I can tell they didn't like me since day 1. Today they came to me rudely about mistakes I made instead of doing it professionally. I haven't been there for long and I was still learning. I made a lot of improvements which I was really happy about, but was still learning. As much as I liked working there, the team lead was very rude/unprofessional towards me and it was so bad to the point I had to leave. The same team lead followed me outside and said "good" that I was leaving (in front of customers too). I was improving a lot in the position, I want to hear constructive criticism, but not like this. I was hoping to grow with the store and the company but unfortunately its not meant to be. This could've been 100% been prevented if only they would came to me professionally about this and I would be more than happy to fix any mistakes and do better in the future. But if this is how they treat their coworkers I do not wish to be a part of that toxic culture and headspace. Do better.

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