Dick's Sporting Goods Reviews

Pros

Relaxed chill job. The managers are cool. Flexibility about job hours. Super understanding if you can't be at work that day.

Cons

Can get slow and nothing to do after you clean up your section. Kind of makes you think your not doing your job but really the job is done.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is great but there's one person who can use an attitude adjustment.

Pros

Great People
Good Discount
Nice products
Many locations
Fun Environment

Cons

PAY
bad leadership
minimum training
Bad hours
Need better advancement track

Advice to Senior Management

More training!

Pros

Very relaxed atmosphere to work in

Cons

hard to get enough hours to receive a decent paycheck

Advice to Senior Management

give employees more hours

Pros

Fun...Plus you meet some other sales associates and bond..

Cons

Unfortunatly management is terrible. I dont know how they hire these people. They treat employees like slaves

Advice to Senior Management

Dont be phony

Pros

Can be a very fun enviroment to work in.
Company has a lot of contests that are attainable.
Fast Paced enviroment with constatn change each week and month and year.
Management pay is highly competitive and so are the benefits
Great advancement opportunities.
Company is always changing and trying to better itself.
Company is driven to make reporting easy for management to read and understand
Corporate buyers and team are always looking for feedback from store management
Company spends money on upkeep of store to make sure they are fresh and clean
Stock incentives
Discounts and cetting edge new golf product

Cons

Senior Management sometimes sets goals at unachievable levels and timeframes.
 Payroll lacking in order to give customer service as needed
Bonus is lacking compared to other companies
Guidance is usually opposite from district leadership, to Regional and then Corporate staff
Highly Loss Prevention driven and focused company, sometimes a little overboard.
Shipping from DC's can incur quite a bit of shrink and no control by store, but all accountability.
Lack of training for management staff leads to high turnover.

Advice to Senior Management

More training for Management staff, a set training schedule with District Leadership held accountable, has to be supervised by someone outside the District Team.

Payroll has to be looked at more closely as staffing levels can be inadequate at times due to cutbacks. Competition is going to be based on service and at times there are no sales associates on the floor to help.

Getting out of touch with the customer seems to be the trend as the company cuts back on payroll and is using more visual aid tools for customer self service. This is good for the customer who does their research but not for the 1st time parent of a little leaguer, football player, etc etc.

Pros

easy environment to work in

Cons

lack of hours, constant changing of schedule

Advice to Senior Management

stop changing the schedule after it is posted

Pros

Good perks on sporting goods equip.

Cons

expect to work long hours for mgrs, but its retail

Pros

*Decent Pay
*Time and a half on Sundays
*Felxible schedules

Cons

*Poor Work/Life Balance
*Poor Scheduling
*Long hours

Pros

You are part of a successful company with a good reputation, the jobs and tasks were easy, able to interact with customers and help inform them what product would best fit their needs

Cons

the day to day job can easily get boring and monotonous if business is slow, it was hard to build relationships with other employees due to competition and lack of job security, the pay was not competitive at all for part time employees, unflexible scheduling, i was laid off without notice until i showed up to look at the schedule, quite embarassing

Advice to Senior Management

build a more positive and energetic morale, offer more competitive pay and/or commission incentives, be open to give part time employees more hours and advance notice of future schedules

Pros

Managers work with the school schedule for part time associates.

Cons

No such thing as a fixed schedule your shifts will change from week to week. Their is less than one week advancement on your work schedule for the next week.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to not micro manage as much I understand some associates need that but not all.