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Average Corporate Workplace - Anonymous employee Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
Apr 9, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You can easily talk with members of other teams, shadow them, and internal job hopping is accepted and even encouraged.

Cons

Average corporate experience with most things running slow, hard to change processes even when they don’t work, there is an obvious hierarchy between teams when it comes to respect for what you do and what you contribute to the success of the company, extremely merchant driven, very little PTO, and an extremely strict PTO policy where you can’t be gone for more than 1 hour (think Doctors appointment, meeting a plumber at your house, picking up your child, etc.) without having to request time off depending on who your manager is.

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Pros

Nice people to work with, customers are generally good people.

Cons

Not enough opportunities for more hours.

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1.0
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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