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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Ok for retail - Cashier Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
22 July 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Paid training, at least one free shirt, 20% discount, competitive pay (at the store I was at at least, with the promise of a .25 cent raise per hour after 90 days.) While this store does offer a credit card (which I'm sure will be pushed harder in the future) the location I was at did not force you to meet any goals. You were in fact not supposed to ask every customer to sign up because apparently referring someone with bad credit is to be avoided.

Cons

Spotty training, disorganized or over-worked middle management. General retail concerns like tedious and laborious work for a very small amount of money. Also, they can work you for 6 hours without a break, which they frequently attempt to. You can go to the bathroom or something if it's slow, however, any day I work I seem to go over my time because you need a team lead to cash you out and they are either too disorganized or preoccupied to try to get you out of there on time. Also, while the people I worked with seemed pretty nice over all, none of them seemed to like their job much, which could lower moral and promote apathy about work quality.

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Pros

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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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