r/dickssportinggoods

Hey everyone,

I was just offered a position at a brand new store that will be opening in the next 3-4 weeks or so. I was hired as a "service specialist." Basically, they told me they are going to have this position be a one person department with the idea that I would be responsible for building the bikes, helping customers with service needs and probably helping build treadmills and other equipment when needed. This seems to be a newer position in the company but I was hoping if there are any people working this or people with knowledge about the position could tell me there thoughts. Seems like the culture is great as well as the pay and benefits but Im just curious on others thoughts!

Thanks in advanced!

Does anyone have experience with the Teammate Relief Fund? I'm in kind of a bind with my vehicle and won't have it back until the end of the month. I can either pay the collision center what I'll owe them or I can pay for a rental for a short time, but not both. I doubt they'll approve a request but I wanted to see if anyone had advice. Thanks in advance.

Just need to vent about the absolute cowardice of store management.
I’m an undergrad, and I’ve been doing the college-break routine for a while now. Work my ass off during breaks/summers, go on inactive status while away at school, and get reactivated whenever I’m home. It’s worked fine every time until now.
I reached out to get shifts lined up for this upcoming break, and suddenly it’s: "Sorry, there just aren't any shifts available right now."
Then I go to check, and I’m completely wiped from the systems. No Legion schedule, no heads-up, no email, nothing. Just wiped off the roster with zero notice.
If corporate slashed payroll and you don’t have the hours to give out, just have the balls to tell me straight up. If you purged college associates from the roster, say that. Don’t hit people with the passive-aggressive ghost routine and softly push them out the door while pretending "shifts are just tight."
They expect a two-week notice and professional courtesy if an associate walks out, but when it’s on their end, you’re just disposable payroll meat. Definitely not coming back to save their cowardly asses when holiday madness hits.
Anyone else deal with their SM doing this exact quiet-firing bullshit to college workers?

I just started in my role a few months ago in sport and outdoor teammate but I was hired to work in golf which is weird in itself. My store manager proposed doing inventory to me as I was walking out the door around 3 weeks ago, saying it would be our neighboring stores and the pay is good. I said I would be interested and to let me know more because who wouldn’t want to make more to drive to the nearest store other than mine? He ended up scheduling me for two inventories back to back days both an hour and a half away and not giving me any more information. There are 8 stores closer than that, but since they’re in a different state I guess that doesn’t count. I’ve asked my captains for more information on pay and what to expect as I didn’t really want to commit without knowing everything. I have been told that they could find the numbers and get back to me, but that never happened. I’m pretty much only golf and sport and outdoor with the occasional register or footwear shift which I don’t mind. I feel like i’m not sure what’s expected of me when i’m there as I haven’t gotten any information about it. Some coworkers that have been there a while say they do pay well as they carpool and end up getting a “bonus” because they’re not really paying for the mileage as they pool gas money. I’m wondering if anyone here is comfortable sharing their usual compensation or what I can expect from this? From my opinion of the store manager, I can’t trust him at all and I don’t want to get stiffed as he already mislead me with the “neighboring stores” stuff and historically the asm and captains know how to do things in the store better than he does. I’d heard there is travel time pay, but from one of my conversations with the asm the travel time pay is just mileage? I’d appreciate any feedback just to make me feel better before I go to these shifts.😔

I am BEYOND sick of these customers that come in the store and trash the place. I seriously don’t understand how some of these people function in everyday society. Leaving food and drink containers all over the place, ripping things open and leaving it on the floor or the shelf, carrying something around the store and leaving it nowhere near where it goes, coming in the store when we close in 1 minute and taking their sweet time to browse, the constant theft, DESTROYING very nicely folded clothes and making zero effort to make it look a little nice, ignoring me when you’re leaving and I tell you to have a good day and you look at me and don’t even acknowledge my existence, I could go on and on. Working at dicks has made me really see how stupid and inconsiderate people are, and I really don’t know how some of these people function in society everyday. Don’t get me wrong, there’s very nice customers that I enjoy helping, I don’t mind them at all, but as for the other group, they can never return to the store for all I care.

Does anyone know when is the enrollment and deadline?

Are specialists still going to be eligible or are they going to take that away too?

Also for life insurance it used to say 40,000 but now it says 1x salary?