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Worst Position Ever - Customer Engagement Specialist DICK'S Sporting Goods Employee Review

1.0
9 Mar 2012
Recommend
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Pros

This position is seriously the easiest job. You stand in one spot all day and repeat yourself. You occasionally answer the phone and transfer calls, and also guild people in the right direction for their purchases. If you don't mind being bored, this position is for you.

Cons

Management will constantly be on you about doing your job correctly, even if you are! They will watch you and listen to everything you do by, "hiding". You get trained for ONE DAY, and they expect you to know exactly what to do, and when you have questions about something, they get mad because your bothering them while they sit in the back with the other managers. And then, if you screw up, they get angry, and this is because no one is ever trained properly.This position, really isn't as effective as what the managers think. Alls you do your whole shift is say, "Hi, how are you. What brings you in today?" But saying "what brings you in today", sometimes makes customers uncomfortable and angry because they dont want to be bothered. I believe greeting is ineffective.

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5.0
11 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Corporate is 10/10. At a large company, every department is different but they value their customers and employees and offer great benefits. Rewarding to work there

Cons

Not much to say. Best employer I’ve had

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1.0
23 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Employee Discount Access to Expert voice, which seems like no one tells you about, That's about it.

Cons

The biggest problem is there's no defined end to the night. We're scheduled until 9pm, but it's become normal to stay an hour, two hours, sometimes even longer past that because leadership keeps adding more tasks and finding new things to fix after everything is already done. It feels like the goalposts constantly move. My availability hasn't always been respected, communication has been poor, and there's a huge difference in accountability between employees. The people who work hard and stay busy all night end up staying just as late as the people standing around talking or doing nothing. Instead of addressing the actual productivity issues, everyone gets held hostage until leadership decides the store is finally good enough. I've worked retail for years, and every other place I've worked had a clear definition of what needed to be done before you could leave. Here, it feels like there is no finish line, which makes it impossible to plan your life around a part-time job. The discount and perks are nice, but the lack of consistency, the constantly changing expectations, and the uncertainty about when you're actually going home have made the job a lot more frustrating than it needs to be. If you're thinking about working here and want to work night shifts, plan on staying well past your scheduled end time until someone tells you it's "ok to leave". I was told I needed to ask for permission before clocking out, great leadership skills.

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