Sports Authority Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

The people that i work with are great, the vendors that I deal with are the best of the best.

Cons

The company does not like to pay you well until you are an upper management roll, and getting to that postion is hard to due becuse they bring in outside people rather than promoting from within.

Pros

- IT department has gotten better in recent months
- New technology being implemented
- Casual dress environment
- IT has a work/life balance policy

Cons

- Use to have a great discount, but it was taken away
- Brutal work hours
- No labor day or day after Thanksgiving holiday
- No bonus this year
- You have to be at your desk from 8-5 or take PTO time

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out who you are as a company and execute a plan against that strategy.

Pros

The discount, which as of January of 2012, is going away. Unfortunately, outside of that, there really aren't many perks...it's your standard retail job. Decent benefits, I suppose.

Cons

Poor recognition, bad communication and a propensity for micro-managing. No time-and-a-half on holidays, which is a crime. I just worked 10 hours on Thanksgiving...absurd

Advice to Senior Management

We're in retail people. Understand that you can have a great-looking store, or a money machine...but not both. There is a happy medium and that should be the goal. If you want high CEI scores, stop giving your people so much to do that they have a hard time giving customers the attention they need/desire.

Pros

Great group with good leadership
New technology

Cons

Support issues
Lack of holiday time

Pros

Excellent compensation
Decent discount on purchases at stores (but now that's gone)
Wonderful group of people to work with
Saw many opportunities for improvements

Cons

Leadership only cares about themselves
Paranoid culture where mistakes were not tolerated and "rocking the boat" was discouraged
Organization is run by HR, not the individual business units

Advice to Senior Management

Give your managers and directors more support and authority to make business decisions
Acknowledge that the culture is toxic and needs to be fixed
LISTEN to what the employees have to say instead of what the VPs are saying

Pros

Worked with a very good team.
Some good people in various departments.
Corp discount is like crack to employees.

Cons

Nepotism rules.
Serious turf wars.
Corp HQ building is outdated.
Numerous staff in Merchant group that should have been shown out long ago.
Empty promises.
Lack of apparent direction by senior mgmt.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in your staff.

Pros

The employee discount was excellent, cost + 10% which equated to 25% - 55% off everything I bought. There are some talented people there that are a real pleasure to work with.

Cons

Working in IT at the Sports Authority corporate office was the most unpleasant job experience I ever had. The turnover is extremely high. The mix of technology does not work well together. The amount of vendors and contractors make the environment over complex and there is a lot of finger pointing going on in management. Overall, employees working in IT at the corporate office are very unsatisfied.

Advice to Senior Management

There are a handful of directors that make the corporate office a bad place to work. Go to HR and review complaints against your managers and directors. Next review all of the employees that left the company in the last year. The directors with the highest amount of turnover and complaints should be escorted out of the building today.

Pros

well known
fun atmosphere
good benefits / discount

Cons

poor leadership
seems like the leaders at corporate are all about their own PR
We keep hiring these consultants as leaders even though the workers aren't getting results
who's running the company? Marketing????

Advice to Senior Management

Stop focusing on going public and start focusing on the people

Pros

offer a flexible schedule for those wanting part time for those more career minded full time & promotion opportunities exist.

Cons

Corporate mindset of decreasing staffing levels makes it difficult to offer top notch customer service coupled with heavy workload of seasonal floor changes can be difficult to feel satisfied

Advice to Senior Management

Keep staffing levels up your customers will appreciate the better service provided by a better trained and scheduled staff. Your competition has well staffed stores and good service because of it.

Pros

SA offered a great annual salary.

Cons

Unwelcoming, impersonal, poorly managed, high turnover, inappropriate, distrustful

Advice to Senior Management

The business should hold IS Dept accountable for its high turnover, poor management, and hostile culture.