Not Worth Working For! - Anonymous employee DICK'S Sporting Goods Employee Review

1.0
May 6, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get 25% off of everything in the store.

Cons

1. They say the hours are flexible, but they are not. You ask for 25 hours a week and they will make you work 30 hours. They will end of taking advantage of you! Not to mention, they mess up your availability non stop. So you will tell them that you cannot work one day and you check your schedule for next week and they will have you on that day. 2. Every customer that walks in is a lobotomite. They do not care if they destroy everything in the store because they don't have to clean it up. They also treat you badly if you cannot help them or cannot answer their impossible questions. 3. There is a lack of communication between the manager and the head departments. One tells you one thing and the other tells you something different. You will also get chewed out by the head coach for doing nothing at all! If you were never told how to do something, you get written up. 4. Pay is horrible. You literally have to work doubles everyday in order to make DECENT money. Not to mention all the things you have to deal with on a regular basis. It makes the money not worth it. 5. The employees are rude and they play around like they are on a basketball court. The managers at each location like to hire kids that fool around and do not take their jobs seriously. I noticed that many times some of the stores like the Broken Arrow location barely have any employees working there. Which in reality makes their job more difficult. 6. List goes on and on....

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