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DismissSports Direct is a retailer. They sell sportswear and trainers for women, men and children.
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Best thing
Get most weekends off
Worst thing
Staff turn over
Sports Direct Employee, January 2023
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Best thing
Some of the people I work with.
Worst thing
The management and favouring certain people.
Sports Direct Sales assistant, January 2023
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Best thing
The people you work with
Worst thing
0 hour contract
Sports Direct Employee, January 2023
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Best thing
coworkers are nice
Worst thing
managers don’t treat you like a person
don’t get paid breaks
my contract ended and they didn’t bother telling me
i wasn’t trained properly
the management don’t bother helping you
always technical issues with tillsSports Direct Sales assistant, January 2023
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Best thing
The people I work with
Worst thing
The store manager and manager
Sports Direct Sales assistant, January 2023
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Best thing
people that work there
Worst thing
standing all day hurts your body
Sports Direct Sales assistant, January 2023
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Worst thing
Over worked. Long hours worked over the contracted hourse
Sports Direct Supervisor, January 2023
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Best thing
The staff are all friendly and helpful
Worst thing
0 hour contract
Sports Direct Sales assistant, December 2022
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Best thing
People I work with
Discount
CommissionWorst thing
-Pointless breaks,long shifts
-Getting half hour less than 6hrs to avoid getting a break
-Having to train people when It's not my job ontop of having to continue to work at normal pace at the same time then being responsible for said person when they do things wrong
-hard to change shifts that aren't possible to do/need altering
-20 jobs for 1 person
-Never leaving on time
-Customers (there's a lot of rude ones)
-constantly understaffed
-it's bare minimum training so you basically go in blind and learn on the job but expected to know what to do
-I could go on the list is endless...Sports Direct Employee, December 2022
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Best thing
The people
Worst thing
Last min shifts
Sports Direct Employee, November 2022
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Best thing
The people I work with
Worst thing
The manager
Sports Direct Store assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
Relaxed place to work
Worst thing
The hours
Sports Direct Sales assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
Going home
Worst thing
Too many jobs work for one person
Sports Direct Sales assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
Nice people and environment
Worst thing
Managers
Sports Direct Customer service, November 2022
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Best thing
Working with good group of people
Worst thing
Breaks too short and management take advantage of people
Sports Direct Sales assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
People
Worst thing
Pay and hours
Sports Direct Employee, November 2022
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Best thing
Work colleagues
DiscountWorst thing
One of my managers
Sports Direct Sales assistant, November 2022
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Best thing
Discount and colleagues
Worst thing
How rude the customers are
Sports Direct Employee, November 2022
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Best thing
Meeting nice customers and having friends in the work place
Worst thing
Understaffed
Too much to do for 1 person on a departmentSports Direct Employee, October 2022
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Best thing
Next to no stress, friendly team, work where you are most comfortable, not suffocating
Worst thing
Unpaid breaks, 20% discount isn’t as much as I’d like but enough, 5£ an hour is hard to live off, minimal hours, temporary contract
Sports Direct Sales assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
shifts are flexible with education
Worst thing
sometimes get given too many jobs at once, under 23/18 paid less than older colleagues for doing the exact same work
Sports Direct Employee, October 2022
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Best thing
The other employees/ manager/ supervisors. everyone gets along so well so it’s like i’m working with my friends!
Worst thing
Some customers but that’s to be expected when working in retail
Sports Direct Sales assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
The people that I work with make the job less stressful
Worst thing
Hours done vs pay
Sports Direct Assistant manager, October 2022
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Best thing
The team members and the atmosphere
Worst thing
Very underpaid for the amount of work you have to do and it’s Not worth the pay. Not much security and customers can get a bit aggressive.
Sports Direct Sales assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
Being able to have conversations and have some laughs with other workers
Worst thing
it’s very stressful at times some higher up workers don’t sometimes know what they are doing which makes other lower workers not know what to do or understand what to do.
Sports Direct Sales assistant, October 2022
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Best thing
My colleagues
Worst thing
Untidiness, inconsistent hours, having to meet quotas to show that you're a good employee
Sports Direct Retail assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
The discounts
Worst thing
The customers you have to serve
The pay
Some of the hours they give you if you say to them you have a free week they will give you 30 hours of work to do a weekSports Direct Team member, September 2022
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Best thing
People you work with
Worst thing
Managers are racist
Unrealistic expectations
Never happy when targets are met, there's always something that could be better
DirtySports Direct Warehouse operative, September 2022
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Best thing
the people there
Worst thing
how the manager speaks to you sometime and how they don’t listen sometimes
Sports Direct Sales assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
the crew i work with
Worst thing
you're not treated with respect
Sports Direct Store assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
The team of people who I work with bar the main manager.
Worst thing
The disrespect from the manager, and they way you can be treated in several situations.
Sports Direct Retail assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
The people that work there and it is a chill environment
Worst thing
The pay could be a lot better
Sports Direct Sales assistant, September 2022
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Best thing
Customer interaction
Worst thing
Pay and workload
Sports Direct Customer assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
staff discount & generally friendly staff
Worst thing
long, boring shifts with too many staff members on quiet days but also being understaffed on busy days
Sports Direct Sales assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
Talking to other staff members complaining about customers and the 20% off but we get as many days off as we want in the year as long as they get covered
Worst thing
The customers!! Some are ok the most of the time there shit cuz they don’t teach there kids how to act in a store.
Sports Direct Shop assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
Easy job
Works mates
Good hoursWorst thing
Terrible pay
Managers are a bit jarring at timesSports Direct Retail assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
the people who i work with
Worst thing
some of the air conditioners don’t work
Sports Direct Sales assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
meeting new people
Worst thing
not enough hours, bad pay
Sports Direct Retail assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
a amazing experience you make so many memories and learn so much the staff are amazing
Sports Direct Sales assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
The team and the job is simple
Worst thing
Money
Sports Direct Employee, August 2022
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Best thing
Kind staff
Safe environment
Okay work timesWorst thing
Pay
Holiday leave
Cover if sickSports Direct Sales assistant, August 2022
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Best thing
Love working for supply chain in sports direct
Good location
Grateful for the staff perksWorst thing
Systematic racism in hierarchy
Career progression is very hardSports Direct Warehouse operative, August 2022
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Best thing
It’s an easy job can be fun at times and is a good atmosphere
Worst thing
Unpaid and overworked. No respect. Not listened to.
Sports Direct Employee, August 2022
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Best thing
Working with great people and for a generous company
Worst thing
Hours can be long
Sports Direct Supervisor, July 2022
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Best thing
The discount
Worst thing
The manager is rude to everyone and speaks to all the staff members like there all stupid. Nothing the staff do is ever good enough and it makes you feel very small
Sports Direct Retail assistant, July 2022
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Best thing
It was 0 hours so we’d be able to adjust it according to school
Worst thing
The place is sexist and management is horrible you get overworked insanely for the bare minimum of a pay they intentionally give you 4 hour shifts so they don’t have to give a break and when you’re on a longer shift they’ll send you to your break late and make you come back at the set time though so you have less break. The manager is incredibly sexist and degrading.
Sports Direct Sales assistant, July 2022
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Best thing
zero hour contract = flexible hours, job is fairly easy, people I work with make it bearable
Worst thing
really bad pay (minimum wage)
Sports Direct Employee, July 2022
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Best thing
The team (minus a few liabilities)
Worst thing
The amount of pressure placed on staff; stupid decisions from head office that make everything harder and don't have any benefit to the majority of stores; the company only caring about the new flagship stores and not the old ones that definitely need refits; it's looked down upon to have set days off; management still have a very old school mind set even though the company is trying to move forward and change things;
Sports Direct Employee, July 2022
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Best thing
The people, customers and colleagues
Worst thing
Expected to be a jack of all trades. One minute your selling memberships the next your fishing blue roll out of a toilet.
Sports Direct Employee, July 2022
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Best thing
Commission
Worst thing
Weekly rotors, pay and hours
Sports Direct Shop assistant, July 2022