Working at ActionLink, LLC — Reviews by Employees

Bruce Finn let the Sony Account Manager, the Mitts Account Manager and other very hard working, honest and smart people go....and kept the inept (but ass kissing) current crew intact. WTF? Has this guy lost his mind?? You reap what you sow, and right now all of ActionLink's mistakes are coming home to roost. By the way...it is very true that all ove the fired and laid off folks are spreading the word to manufacturers about how dishonest and poorly run this outfit is.

Reading through all these posts on this site is just all too familiar territory so i can relate first hand to most of what is being said here. Many of you current employees might want to know that you are about to lose one of your best top notch and well known clients by the end of the month. Not to worry AL will reassure you that it isn't a big deal and that there will be other work to fill the void. Yeah right don't be naive this company is dying on the vine and they can talk out of their posterior anatomy all they want to try and tell you otherwise but the real truth is their days are in fact numbered.

So where the heck has Actionlink gone to these day? You never see them anymore in the stores. They seem to have dropped off the face of the Earth. I guess all their clients finally figured out they were getting ripped off by the lack of professionalism and expertise, so they went elsewhere- they finally got smart and listened to all the ex-Actionlink employees who are now at other rep firms and telling AL's old clients just him inept Actionlink has become. Shame on the AL President for letting all his best employees go. The employees at AL I still talk to are just biding their time until something better comes along. I just wonder how long ActionLink can hold out before they decide to close up shop. Their reputation is now so bad they may never recover.

years ago actionlink was a great company. they were on top of the game and were a great group to work with. even the owner was a nice guy. little by little the owner and new executives ran out the great hardworking, honest, managers and the executives. merch and assisted sales divisions both suffered and what is left is a company that stands for nothing. a company that over and over again treats thier employees poorly, takes advantage of thier clients, etc.
if you work for actionlink and you are a hard working person you will give it your heart and soul, what WILL HAPPEN is they will treat you terribly and in the end you will lose.
this is fact .. ask anyone who has worked for them and is no longer working for them. the grass is greener everywhere else. Run do not walk to any other company in this industry.

For the better part of 2 years now i have watched as the overall consistency and quality this company is attempting to maintain has declined drastically. Communication across the board is bad. The clients we service deserve better because they look to us when a problem occurs and they are under the impression we have pull to get things done seeing we audit, service, and represent several different areas and brands within their stores. Unfortunately for them all we have the power to do is just mark it down on paper in hopes someone at AL will pass it along to a higher authority to get it taken care of for them. Truth be know that there is absolutely no chance of that ever happening and once the stores realize this fact they just don't want to be bothered with you or AL knowing you are powerless when it comes to fixing and or replacing parts for their demos or displays. AL cant even supply us with the necessary paperwork anymore now they put that responsibility on the employee but the fact that they pay us a so called printing allowance is supposed to make this acceptable. All they ever gave out were those dollar store quality tools, carry bag, and 1 ugly mint green shirt. They should supply the cameras for these ever so important pictures we need to take also but no we have to bring in our own personal property that could get damaged or stolen instead and we are the ones that are out of pocket if that occurs. I don't know who they have looking at these pictures either once they are submitted because i purposely put the wrong pictures in once that were not even for that store and it totally went unnoticed. The only time they will get you is if you send no pictures at all. So its probably safe to say that all these pictures we take are never even seen by the actual clients like Sony. The tools are useless now seeing the company lost all its labor type installs (that actually paid in hours not minutes) now all we have left are compliance audits and infomercial type brand awareness propaganda like Intel retailedge which is so redundant, pays squat, and frustrates the stores with this endless repetitious BS. What ever happened to handing out freebies these big companies certainly could afford to distribute a few novelty items now and then. No they just want us to go into these stores week after week and shove stuff down the employees throats on how they should tell their customers to only buy this particular brand and they don't even get as much as a pen as reward. AL has seriously lost touch with the retail world they will never gain credibility with stores by doing what they so blindly do now and they can forget acquiring any new clients either because the word is out that AL is nothing but a lackluster poser in the current retail marketplace.

I applied to this company during summer of 2008. I had a few years of merchandising work under my belt. I talked to some woman, I think her name was Maria, She told me I was hired. I was to work doing merchandising at Best Buy here in Augusta. It took forever to get processed. They kept sending me paperwork to fill out and mail or fax back. I don't know why they could not send me a whole packet in one shot. I had to send them a copy of my SSN card 4 times because their office kept losing it.

Then I had to take a drug test. They took forever to get me the form to give to the lab. They go it to me the day I was supposed to work at Best Buy. Which the lab didn't appreciate.

Now what I was told about the job during the first interview was this: I was to go to the local Best Buy during business hours. I was to set up displays for products and implement planograms. I was to do this about twice a week about 10 hours a week. I had another part time job, so this was great. So this Maria women calls me the afternoon I'm supposed to start and tells me it is an overnight gig. On top of that it was only for the next few days while we remodel the store. Then I was to travel to a Best Buy in Atlanta, GA. This is 2 hrs. away and do the same thing there and then on and on. No what near what I was originally told.

Of course I didn't go. She calls my phone and leaves these rude messages. Telling me that I'm screwing them over and the other guy that was working there that night. I never answered her. She lied, her problem.

I get an email about 3 months later wanting to know if I would like some work. By this time I was unemployed. I asked the details and was told it was a job in the opposite end of Georgia doing a remodel of a grocery store. No thanks. These people are full of it.

Pay was 10$ an hour, ok

most of the other stuff can't really comment on because I never started. But they will jerk you around. So I say avoid.

The only people who still work here are the idiots that came from another marketing company, and thought they were going to turn things around here (nice try, you morons, you totally *$&Ced things up at Actionlink, TOO) What hiring manager though you could do any better than your last fiasco?
OR they people who still work there are leftovers from before all the bloodletting started, and they took a huge paycut to keep their menial jobs, or are just too stupid to realize they are on the bow of a sinking ship.
All I can say is - GET OUT NOW WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A CHANCE!
What you probably don't realize is that it will take you forever to find another job at another marketing company Every other marketing company will NOT hire ActionLink employees because they have been mis-managed for so long.

If you are doing your research on companies BEFORE you try to get a job there- read below- this is what a job website says you should look for in a good company:

1. Pick and Choose Your Targets - If you do, and you read the rest of these posts, (which are from CURRENT employees- not just disgruntled ex-employees) you will see Actionlink is NOT the company you want to work for.

2. Concentrate on Growth Industries- Then you should pick just about ANY OTHER company except Actiionlink- the industry as a whole is staying level, but Actionlink has lost 75% of their business due to inept management- they were doing all right last year, but in order to cut costs, they laid off all their long-standing employees and hired a bunch of idiots from another failed marketing agency (can you see the person with a gun to their head pulling the trigger? That's what Actionlink did)

Actionlink used to pay between $20- $25 an hour, then it went to $18 an hour, now I hear they are offering only $15 an hour. Pretty soon it will be $10 an hour. I have never seen a company LOWER the wages of their struggling employes. But Actionlink thinks this is "business as uaual"- screwing the people who make the company profitable (or in this case go down the crapper)

There is NO job security, they will TAKE AWAY benefits they offer you with the job, you are not even an employee of the company when you work there- you are actually an employee of a 3rd party company called Oasis Outsourcing. So if you ever try to get back what they owe you, you will be sucked into a vortex of legal wrangling through Oasis. Or, if they fire you, they will contest your unemployment benefits, and if that fails, they will sue you in court just to piss you off.

Do you REALLY want to work for a company that treats their employees this way???

One word ~ HORRENDOUS!


The idiot leeches who run Actionlink should be run out of the country and be made to live in the pits of hell.
If you think you are safe, think again. This company is a ticking time bomb waiting to implode. There is no job security. A monkey could run this company better. This company treats their people like dog crap.

It's amazing to me that this company keeps their HR Dept. working hard and hiring hundreds of new reps, when they don't even have any work for their EXISTING staff!! I guess they think they can spin it that the company has "thousands" of employees but in reality they have lost so many clients that the company is now but a small pimple on the butt of the working class idiots that still remain there.