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Great for first job or college student - Anonymous employee Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

1.0
10 May 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They can be flexible with scheduling. Decent discount. Great tuition reimbursement plan. Affordable health plan if single.

Cons

Big time favoritism between management and coworkers. I still can't figure out how they pick the candidates for the MIT program?????? Management is on a power-trip and likes to dictate over anothers managers department instead of watching their own. To busy worrying about if your shirt is tucked in and you are wearing your name tag instead of throwing a football around and helping a customer! Love to lie to your face and when you catch them on it they look at you like they don't know what your talking about. Love to use the excuse that its corporate fault. Managers gossip more than the employees and try to use it to make employees quit so they don't have to fire them and pay unemployement. I loved it when a department manager said to watch out for another department manager because he will stab you in the back. I would rather trust the manager that he said to be careful of than him. I could go on and on but this is just one store. But from what I can tell, The managers are not much different. I believe the first class in the MIT program is how to lie to your employees!

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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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