Dead end job - Anonymous employee DICK'S Sporting Goods Employee Review

1.0
May 1, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Close to home. Friendly coworkers.

Cons

Zero chance for advancement. Incompetent managers. Low wages. I have seen several times when a manager that wanted to make this a good place to work was replaced with a "My Way or the Highway" corporate automaton. If you are an intelligent, ambitious, thinking person you are a threat to management and they will make it a personal vendetta to squash you or drive you out, quote "You are just an hourly employee, you have no value other than how much money you can make for ME".

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Cons

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