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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Overworked, Unappreciated, and Underpaid - Team Lead Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

2.0
8 Mar 2011
Recommend
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Pros

15 - 25% discount Usually Friendly co- workers Neat store with neat products A lot of hours during certain seasons

Cons

Pay rate is entirely too low for the amount of work done daily in most departments Rewards or praise of doing hard and good work is very very rare Gossip is a huge issue throughout every store I have been to Managers usually do not care about your life outside of work Unkept promises of promotion to management and Manager in Training program Raises are rarely given and are very minimal unlike they were three years ago Work for a Team Lead is overbearing and very stressful even moreso than management Every few months the company tries to fix rules, policies, and ways of doing projects that are not broken so constant adaptation to new schemes Hours and work schedule vary constantly. Insurance is not very good at all.

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5.0
21 Mar 2026
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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
20 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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