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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Academy Sports + Outdoors - Team Lead Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
6 Jan 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great enviorment for active people involved in outdoor recreational activites with a great discount on a variety of products from apparel, shoes, exercise equipment, and firearms. Oppuritunity for involvement in website such as 3point5.com which also provides an extra discount on retail products. Tuition reimbursment for college students (part-time or full time employess). Regular Human resource and District manager visits who are open to conversation with associates..

Cons

Noncompetititive pay, under paid employees where potential for raise is sometimes unfair. Even as a teamlead(supervisor) you can be extremely under paid and unappreciated as a worker. Lack of training by management and poor communication skills within the store. Late nights sometimes becasue of 10pm closing time and depending on the amount of managers you may get out at various hours of the night.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
20 June 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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