Working at ActionLink, LLC — Reviews by Employees

I've worked for AL in the past and someone told me about this site - just as a laugh - anyone that would put a serious comment on here is a LOSER! Get a life and get a job and forget about AL - if you didn't like it, then move on. It shows what the problem with AL has been in the past... YOU!!! I feel very sorry for your current employer - if you have one. Sounds like most of you are more worried about getting unemployment than anything else. Wow, you people are so sad and such business experts - if only the folks at AL went back in time or listened to you then everything would be great! Cause you know everything... You've run a big business right? Wrong. If you did, you wouldn't be on a pitiful website like this. Seriously ROFL - you people are ridiculous. Oh if they'd only realized what a gem they had in you.

Look AL wasn't my favorite place I've ever worked and they have some issues, but you people make it sound so stupid that you have no credibility at all.

What a waste of time - I can't believe I even took the time to respond. It won't matter, you guys can't stop whining, can you? It's all you have I guess. And on that, I'm done with your whining... Since, you know, I have to get back to my JOB.

If anyone reading this is either contemplating going to work for this company, or you are an existing employee, read this very important info:
IF you are thinking of working here full time, you would be better off just about anywhere, with the possible exception of some of the crazy jobs featured in DIRTY JOBS. This company stinks about as bad as some of those jobs for these reasons:
1. You will NEVER get a raise OR an annual review. I kept asking for one and they kept putting me off. They had one excuse after the other, too numerous to mention. They hire you for the cheapest they can get and keep you there FOREVER at the same pay rate. This was after I had received awards for top performance at the company.
2. They work you for 80 hour a week. They keep firing people and then piling the work onto the remaining employees. If you get paid 50K a year, and they work you 80 hours a week, then you are really making only 25K a year. So if you don't mind working for a little over minimum wage, by all means, work at ActionLink.
3. They never thank you or give you anything to makes you want to continue to work here. Just more work piled on top of all the other work they have already assigned you- for the same pay you started there for.
4. Company morale stinks- what do you expect when they never give raises, expect more and more from you at the same pay, and then bring in outsiders (friends of the management team) to fill positions that you are more qualified for and should have been promoted into?
NO WONDER why this company is going downhill and hasn't signed any major account deals in many, many months. Nobody cares about this company, from either the inside OR the outside!!

Where is Actionlink getting the money to pay their employees if they have no accounts? Are they secretly tapping the employees for their blood and selling it to the local blood bank? Oh wait, they have been doing that for YEARS- sucking the blood out of their employees. NOW we know why all the employees look so DRAINED. It's NOT their bad attitude, or the fact they have been beaten down by management year after year, or that they have no prospects for a good job after ActionLink because the industry know that Actionlink employees are not trained properly and therefore not employable. It's the fact they have NO SOUL LEFT because it has been stolen by ActionLink!!!

I agree with you (From Akron, OH — 06/21/2010). The Vendors, Customers, etc. are not stupid. They realize that AL has more law suits against them then there are stars in the sky. Also, as you said, they let the back bone of the company go (the good employees), which were there one big asset. Now with that being said there are still a few good employees that are still there (I don’t know why). But I’m sure they have their resumes out there. Any of the vendors/customers that are still doing business with AL need to do their homework; it’s just a matter of time.

Well, now that I finally got smart and left this craphole of a company, I am now working for one of their competitors, and I NEVER see any AL reps in the stores any more. I guess all the companies that once did business with AL got smart and decided that their money was best spent just about ANYWHERE ELSE. When I ask the store associates if they ever see anyone from AL, they say no, and then they say "thank God" meaning that the do not have a very good attitude towards AL. Sorry, AL, just tellin' 'ya like it is. You blew it big time when you started letting all your best employees go recently. The really funny part is that what AL doesn't know is that I was further up the corporate ladder than the position I was at while employed at AL, and I was at one time thinking about buying part of the company. But the big man had some delusional thoughts about how much he thought it was worth. He should have sold out back then, because now the company is worth about one tenth of what he imagined. After I found out how much he thought it was worth, I was tempted to ask him for some of whatever he was smoking. But instead I decided to invest elsewhere. Best decision I ever made. Does anyone know if AL has signed any major deals in the last 2 years? Ones that last longer than a few weeks or months?

Without going into details or slamming everyone....if you are a professional and want a professional place to work with knowledgable executives, decent benefits, room for advancement, and a stable work environment that does not change weekly, set days off, work/life balance, steady even work load......STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY

Without going into details or slamming everyone....if you are a professional and want a professional place to work with knowledgable executives, decent benefits, room for advancement, and a stable work environment that does not change weekly, set days off, work/life balance, steady even work load......STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY

The previous post had it almost right- but instead of a reporter acting like the Hindenburg was such a huge disater, Actionlink is more like the Geico commercial where the guy drives the Zamboni directly into the Geico logo on the hockey rink boards. Especially when the other hockey player says: "Guys, he drove straight into it, and I'm pretty sure he yelled BULLS-EYE"- that's what the employees are doing right about now at Actionlink- they all jut want out- and even though the economy sucks- they all know they would be better off with unemployment rather than try to stay with a disaster waiting to happen. All the good ones left a LONG time ago- those that are left are like the rats who hudle in the corner waiting for the ship to finally sink, and they don't care what happens. They are driving the Actionlink Zamboni into the wall of failure.

" It burst into flames! It burst into flames, and it's falling, it's crashing! Watch it! Watch it, folks! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie! Get this, Charlie! It's fire—and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my, get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames, and the—and it's falling on the mooring-mast and all the folks agree that this is terrible, this is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. Ohhhhh! It's–it's–it's the flames, [indecipherable, 'enty' syllable] oh, four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it ... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now ... and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring-mast. Oh, the humanity and all the passengers screaming around here. I told you, I can't even talk to people whose friends are on there. Ah! It's–it's–it's–it's ... o–ohhh! I–I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest, it's just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk, and the screaming. Lady, I–I'm sorry. Honest: I–I can hardly breathe. I–I'm going to step inside, for I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah—I can't. I, listen, folks, I–I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed".
- Herbert Morrison; exerpt from Hindenberg Disaster report (1937 New Jersey)

Is ActionLink your Zeppelin?

Nice try you moron (From Akron — 05/27/2010), but Actionlink is fading faster than a cheap blouse. That statement had to be from one of the "brain trust". Oh look, there’s unicorn, or is that tooth fairy. Anyone that knows Actionlink, whether it be previous customers, or vendors is scratching that head and reading that statement again in disbelief. Of course even if you never heard of Actionlink and you’re browsing the "A"'s on this site, look at the rating -2160. Oh well, at least they can set up a flea market in the parking lot.