Under Armour reviews

Where to start.... -its a boys club. Buddies hiring buddies regardless of experience/education. If you play baseball, you've made it. If you dont, be prepared to feel excluded. And being singled out at a boys club is NOT good. - Wounded Vets has a lot of incapable people in charge of departments! They honestly dont know what they are doing and stand around with their hands in their pockets when problems arise. Plus, they are untouchable. - which brings me to the main guy, who is a bully/tool. The guy is so full of himself, its almost sad. If you commit a mistake be prepared to be shamed into exile. He will make you dance-sing in front of everyone that matters in the morning production meetings. And everyone will have a laugh at your expense. Dont want to do it? Might as well hand in your badge and try to catch breakfast @ Mcdonalds. Real professional. - Completely reliant on people 3000k miles away. NOTHING is down in house, everything must go thru Baltimore. Gets annoying real quick. - nothing is based on merit, its based on how well you can get along with the chaps, where you play/coach baseball, or which higher-up you know. people working on floor have given yrs of sweat/sacrifice in hopes of being signed on to UA, sadly most dont make it. - if youre new, dont expect training of any kind. Youll be shown a PowerPoint full of grammatical errors and then youre on your way! - which makes knowledge hoarding excessive as people dont want to help others for office-politics reasons. Truly sink or swim....or Just hone in your baseball skills. - LONG, LONG hours. Has a start-up feel. Sit around for hours waiting for 'solutions' from Baltimore. Work-life balance is completely out of sync, you essentially live to pay bills and show up at work. 60+ hr weeks are common. Take some PTO? Dont even think about it, one guy in inner-circle is proud of going on 8-yrs without a vacation....like that's something to strive for. - office politics on steroids.

I find myself dipping into my own pocket or saving a portion of MY bonus to do things to recognize my team in the short term and I don't mind doing it, since there is not currently an alternative and we all know making your team feel good is paramount to success in retail. However, we tout all these increases in profits and stores are still not given a budget for recognizing their teammates? I'll admit, when I was a Sales Associate, my motivation to perform well was to get the most hours and move up with this company, which I did, but not every teammate has the dream of leading a store or working for Under Armour forever even if they are super brand passionate and committed to the stores success right now. It would be beneficial to budget stores like $200 per quarter if they make plan to do something nice for the team. I bought my team pizza for making one quarter and I swear they talked about it for a month after-they loved it! We could also tier the recognition budgets with the bonus structure (i.e +5% gets $300, +10% gets $400, etc.)