Thread regarding Academy Sports & Outdoors layoffs

Of course it’s the fault of the leadership , whose fault is it if not theirs The people losing their jobs are only marching to the leaders orders. Worst mistake Academy ever made was bringing in J.K. and Michelle. What a losing combo. The above comment of meeting goals is a joke! Please get some real facts! Academy hasn’t met any goals

How bad is it? I read the article about the Bartlesville store being axed. Will current stores be closed as well?

@Oui0fih-kan, like others have explained, it's the way that JK handled the whole ordeal and how he tailored the message to the remaining employees that makes him cruel. I agree that headcount needed to be reduced, but the CEO should not be walking around laughing and priding themselves that they let go of so many workers in one day.

And who is meeting goals? There were maybe a handful of offices that beat their goals last year and even less this upcoming year. You think Jk has had positive impact to us merchants thus far? By asking us to continuously paint a not so honest OTB position monthly we are only hurting ourselves and our relationship with our vendors. We are not able to accurately show the severity of our true deficit and liabilities causing us to only react too late in a lot of instances and having to burn bridges with severa of our vendors. Being a buyer here is tough now. You can't put in numbers you stand behind because upper management doesn't want you to "throw in your towel". Wake up! We are more than Halfway done with the calendar year.

What do you mean by 'cruel'? And what solutions of theirs have made things worse? What is worse than we were bleeding money and 3/4 of the year we were in clearance mode?

How is THAT better than where we are now i.e. Meeting goals, and sometimes even surpassing them in advance and making d---s nervous to be our neighbor that they have to out and out launch a commercial war?

Yes its unfortunate that people lost their jobs and honestly there probably WILL be more before its all said and done (IT hasn't been restructured YET, but its coming I am sure). But because folks lost the position doesn't mean anyone was cruel to them. Its business. And lets be honest, the rumor mill was what had everyone in panic mode for months, not JK.