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Rawlings Sporting Goods

Work part time but frequently. As a specialty retail store, there are times when there’s not much to do in the off season and there are times when it gets really busy (during baseball season). Responsibilities can include regular store maintenance and restocking to inventory management and completing purchase orders through social media, phone, or in store. Coordination with other stores/warehouse is required. I’ve learned skills from improving my customer service and sales abilities to glove relacing, laser engraving, and leadership skills. There are numerous projects that you have an ability to work on/take charge of like custom  engraving orders for various organizations or stock transfer requests for new/other stores. The staff at Lancaster specifically are good people to work with and upper management seems understanding and helpful but not immediately connected with a part timer. During the busy season, need to be able to multitask, communicate effectively, and share the workload. Staff can be spread thin during busy season due to sending them to help with other events around the country. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
You accrue a decent amount of vacation hours from the start

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Absolutely none of the managers know how to speak to their employees. Extreme lack of communication.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
You work with a lot of good people but the conditions are ridiculous sometimes. No working air-conditioning, no windows or airflow, overdone on their PPE making it hard to do your jobs at times.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Morning meeting where you deal with the attitude of your boss right at 6am then you work 10 hours either being really hot or really cold depending on the season with 3 ten minute breaks and one thirty.

The heart of this company are the people, especially those in the trenches getting the work done daily. That starts with the team at the DC, all the way through the manufacturing facilities, to the corporate office. In lieu of market competitive pay or formal opportunities to grow/develop, that’s a primary reason people stay longer than they should. Changed from an environment to stay for an entire career like others before me to a stepping-stone career stop. Sad.

Only work here if you enjoy being worked to death. I worked here a little over a year and 90% of that time I spent working 70-hour weeks. Overtime is nice but that's just ridiculous. Some of the supervisors are nice but others will stand there and scream at you, cuss at you, and insult you for not working fast enough or making minor, easily fixable mistakes. Meanwhile other workers will stand around and play on their phones and no one will say a thing to them. Also HR pulls some shady stuff, like subtracting from your vacation time despite you not using it. Just a poorly managed place overall.

During peek season the phones were non stop and the orders were over whelming at times.
Patience, take your time and do your best to make the customer satisfied with our products.
I liked my bosses, if you had a problem with a customer they were willing to get involved to resolve the issue. If you were having a bad day you could talk to them about it.
The people I met were into sports and family and I had a lot to talk to them about besides just work.
Peek season, from about October until June is our busiest time. 
I like sports so working for a Sports Company was great. Met a lot of wonderful people in 11-years.

Laid back, fun, relaxed work environment....it's sports.  Everyone there is a sports fan of some sort, so the passion is very high.  A lot of pride in the brand and what it represents to industry and to individuals personally.  From a brand perspective, a great brand to work for/on.  From an operations/company perspective it's a tough sell if you take away the fun sports part.  Too often employees are asked to take on more and more responsibilities with no additional compensation when others are let go or leave.  Great stepping stone for career, but hard to advance unless you are in the "inner circle".

 you pull skids and orders to the line and start processing them.. Management, Is horrible, The line leads are bossy and snotty, I learned they don't give a care about their employee's.. The lines are close to gather . They have a slow season and busy season. they lay people off during the slow season. A lot of heavy lifting.. And heavy lifting over your head.. There is no enjoyable part..

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great company culture, and even greater product. Especially with the concerning with Easton Diamond Sports.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Hitting your numbers but also getting the product mix you forecasted..

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Excellent environment , culture is paramount with Rawlings being 125 plus year old company. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I worked remote, there was no typical day in my position.

The coworkers are great, the management is not.  Everyone is overworked, underpaid and expected to go above and beyond with little to no incentive.  If you ask for a raise or say you are unhappy, they will respond with "we can just find someone else".  The only way you'll be happy is if you are higher up on the food chain.  The company gets reorganized about once a year making it next to impossible for an employee to adjust to the position and become good at the position's requirements.  It is also next to impossible to get fired. Which in a way is a good thing, unless the person is awful at what they do and deserves to get axed.

Don't apply unless you are ready to work major overtime. The money is decent but it's like the more you give the more they expect. During the busy season they run out of room for the full orders so they park the pallets everywhere which makes it impossible to get to the merchandise that you need to fill the orders and they basically throw you into the job and expect other "new" employees to train you so unless you have major factory experience you will be lost. Then when you ask a question the usual answer is "I don't know" so it's pretty hectic to say the least at most times.

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Unloader 2 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour
Engineer 2 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour

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